What do you use to light your pipe?

[Rusty Mouse]

I use this, and have my Zippo as backup.

What is this lighter? It's similar to IMCO. I like that.

It's called Chic 4 Pipe, made in Austria. Just like a Bic, but with the angled flame.

My issue with the Tsubota was the lack of height in the flame, but this little guy is great. Adjust to your heart's content. It has a handy scraper and tamper just like the Tsubota, and is plenty solid, with easy flint replacement (takes a Zippo flint) and has a recessed butane refill port.

Cup O Joes sells them, but I get mine at my local B&M. It's the only thing that place is good for, unless dry tobacco and overpriced no-name corn cob's are your thing.

http://www.cupojoes.com/cgi-bin/spgm?dpt=H&srch=KW&item=pro0adag

 

[Fight'n Hampsters]

I usually use Diamond wood matches at home, when not at home I usually have a Zippo or a Bic.

Yup.

++ 1

 

[DrumsAndBeer]

Bic, sometimes, Diamond strike anywhere wooden matches 98% of the time.

 

[Kyle Weiss]

It's called Chic 4 Pipe, made in Austria. Just like a Bic, but with the angled flame.

My issue with the Tsubota was the lack of height in the flame, but this little guy is great. Adjust to your heart's content. It has a handy scraper and tamper just like the Tsubota, and is plenty solid, with easy flint replacement (takes a Zippo flint) and has a recessed butane refill port.

Cup O Joes sells them, but I get mine at my local B&M. It's the only thing that place is good for, unless dry tobacco and overpriced no-name corn cob's are your thing.

http://www.cupojoes.com/cgi-bin/spgm?dpt=H&srch=KW&item=pro0adag

Thank ye. IMCOs are Austrian too, no wonder they look similar. 8)

 

[asmoke]

Been using a jetline lately, with Xicar fuel. Love that fuel, but I swear that lighter has a mind of its own. Took me two months to finally be able to fill it properly. Wish I could blame the mfg but that would not be fair. Mostly ineptitude I think....

 

[kieveryuu]

Been using a jetline lately, with Xicar fuel. Love that fuel, but I swear that lighter has a mind of its own. Took me two months to finally be able to fill it properly. Wish I could blame the mfg but that would not be fair. Mostly ineptitude I think....

I too have a Jetline which I use (and with a similar issue).

Additionally I have a couple Bics around and sometimes I use matches, however, the lighter I have come to rely on is this Yibao http://www.wzyibao.com/en/en_yb9818b.htm It is a great little lighter which I refill with Xicar fuel, which provides a about two+ weeks of flame for me. Better than the Jetline, not quite as good as Bic, but makes up for any short coming in looking like a small oldboy.

 

[idbowman]

Indoors, matches. Always.
Outdoors, matches when possible...when they're not (which is most of the time), I use a no-muss, no-fuss BIC

 

[awoodby]

This thing was a "what the heck" ebay purchase straight from the exotic orient (china ack)

http://i.ebayimg.com/t/JOBON-cigarette-pipe-butane-lighter-with-pipe-tools-/04/!BvLzg2wBGk~$%28KGrHqYOKiIEvP!U!IcrBMDf8,q++Q~~_35.JPG

Jobon pipe lighter. Not real sure how to fill it properly, seem to get a lot of leakage/spray. The tools are functional, it lights so long as their's no wind or fast movement lol.

Not sure how I feel about it thus far. At $10 I can't complain much, every time I decide it's awesome and I love it, it gets tempermental on starting lol.

I Wish I could pay 5x as much for one with better quality control!

--Alex

 

[user 2031]

Matches... unless in the wind where I can't keep them lit, then a Bic.

That question just came up on G.L.Pease's

Ask G.L.Pease column the other day... here's what he said.

Tony queries: Of course there’s always somebody asking questions about using matches as opposed to lighters and the fact that some things ignite the pipe tobacco at a lower temperature. Ok, matches win that one hands down and butane lighters, while not as nasty as a torch which in my opinion has no good use in a pipesters paraphernalia, ignite a bit hotter. My question is, “what is your take on Zippo pipe lighters; the ones with the hole in the side of it so that it pretty much hits the center of the tobacco in the bowl? Does it ignite hotter or is it just that one has to accept the taste of the fuel momentarily?

A: I like matches for a variety of reasons. Yes, the temperature is significantly lower than that of a butane lighter, but more importantly, it’s possible to use them with greater care and control. When lighting tobacco, a delicate flame is a must for improved flavour and decreased harshness. Teasing the flame over the surface with very gentle puffing is the best way to heat the leaf, and coax the pipe to almost light itself, as one would do with a fine cigar.

The biggest problem I have with Zippo-type lighters is the taste of the fuel, which taints the tobacco, and to me, that taint remains throughout the bowl. Whether or not this matters is, I suspect, largely a matter of personal taste, but for me, it’s just not worth it. I don’t use lighter fuel in my BBQ, either.

Besides, we’re pipe smokers. We need to cling tenaciously to our traditional, anachronistic ways, and these new-fangled gimcracks have no more place in our kits than velcro-fastened spats or clip-on bow ties. Matches rule.

I agree with him, matches rule!

 

[Kyle Weiss]

Given to me by a good friend, I have been using the IMCO Triplex and Junior lighters lately. Why? Their design is unique. They're cheap. They're solid.

They seem to not impart the nasty "fuel taste" nearly as much as a Zippo, as the wick surface is far more subdued. They eat flints like crazy, though.

They also hold onto fuel in the dryness of my area about three times as long as a Zippo, which was always a problem for me.

8)

 

[TonyS]

I modified my standard Zippo into a Zippo pipe lighter. Gave me an excuse to use my mill, though I could have done it on the drill press. The mill already has the vise and had the 3/8" end mill in it already so... I use the newer Zippo fluid. Works like a charm and I don't notice any of the old lighter fluid taste or smell.

 

[Pipelighters]

IMCO G77R
It lights first or second try every time and fits easily into my pipe/tobacco pouch

 

[Mr. Doody]

i light my baccy with my heat vision, like all my brothers from krypton.

and if my eyes are tired i have a tsubota pearl lighter i'm in love with.

doody.

 

[jefe1037]

2 in matches if im inside or its not windy, on a blustery day, i flick my bic!

 

[Wayne_Teipen]

I typically prefer matches but just recently purchased a Sillems Corona Old Boy Year of the Dragon lighter in royal blue. I splurged and intend on getting it engraved and passing it down as an heirloom to my son some day.

 

[SPUD 15]

OLD BOY, MAGIE, ZIPPO, MATCHES. mike

 

[tech2576]

Anything hot enough to make smoke. 8)

 

[Bud Savoie]

Wooden matches. Never met a lighter I could stand.

 

[Hawker]

I have 2 Zippo's & 1 Xikar Res. but the lighter i use the most is a $6.00 Bentley Pipe Lighter. Was so impressed with it's performance i that i thought i'd buy an extra figuring that for 6 bucks it can't last forever but can't find them anymore. Apparently they were made illegally in Canada as they are not child proof.

 

[Northern Neil]

I stick to matches when possible. When not, I find a Bic works just fine. Might not have the nice directional flame of the more expesive options, but still provides fire when required.