Hello all,
Returned to pipe smoking last fall and discovered this forum looking for advice, news, reviews, and enablers. Happy to have found it.
I tried to start smoking a pipe back in 2000/2001, at the age of 18. At the time I had no idea what I was doing, no one to teach me, and no thought to look for advice on technique on the internet. I was smoking Captain Black in cobs and I couldn't keep it lit because I didn't even know what tamping was. After a few months of dozens of relights per bowl, obliterating my tongue and mouth, I gave up. Cut to last fall when the weather began to turn and I found some of my old cobs and old briar in a box at the bottom of my office closet. A few searches later and I've amassed a small collection of briar (and morta) and half a closet full of pipe tobacco. I've sinced learned how to tamp a pipe and also discovered I am no great fan of burley.
I don't expect I will post much, I find I'm mostly a wallflower in these sorts of forums. Still, I wanted to say that I am happy I found these forums and am now immensely enjoying a daily bowl or three during my commutes and walking my dog.
Returned to pipe smoking last fall and discovered this forum looking for advice, news, reviews, and enablers. Happy to have found it.
I tried to start smoking a pipe back in 2000/2001, at the age of 18. At the time I had no idea what I was doing, no one to teach me, and no thought to look for advice on technique on the internet. I was smoking Captain Black in cobs and I couldn't keep it lit because I didn't even know what tamping was. After a few months of dozens of relights per bowl, obliterating my tongue and mouth, I gave up. Cut to last fall when the weather began to turn and I found some of my old cobs and old briar in a box at the bottom of my office closet. A few searches later and I've amassed a small collection of briar (and morta) and half a closet full of pipe tobacco. I've sinced learned how to tamp a pipe and also discovered I am no great fan of burley.
I don't expect I will post much, I find I'm mostly a wallflower in these sorts of forums. Still, I wanted to say that I am happy I found these forums and am now immensely enjoying a daily bowl or three during my commutes and walking my dog.
