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Can Someone Please Tell Me Why?
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<blockquote data-quote="KevinM" data-source="post: 463448" data-attributes="member: 2318"><p>Me three, if I counted right. Also, pack it looser than usual.</p><p></p><p>I looked at the "How to smoke a pipe properly" card that came with a new Savinelli, and it was specific about proper packing and pacing. But it was silent on the step method of break in. Interesting omission.</p><p></p><p>I then consulted George Herment's The Pipe. In a chapter titled "Seasoning," Herment discusses different "pre-ignition" steps that smokers use to get a new pipe ready for the flame. Then he discusses the step method, acknowledging it may be beyond the patience of many pipers. He then says, "... the top of the bowl always seasons and chars sooner than the bottom by virtue of the more violent burning produced by lighting the pipe." So it seems that homogeneity was the rationale for the step method. </p><p></p><p>When I was an unskilled newcomer to pipe smoking, afflicted by too firm packing and multiple relights, my pipes developed a cake that was much thicker at the top of the bowl and almost non-existent at the bottom. Now, with looser packing and slower smokes, I rarely need more than one or two relights, those coming toward the end of the bowl. Result: no more cake build up at top.</p><p></p><p>So I guess that was the rationale for the step method. Maybe it was intended for vigorously puffing newbies and clenchers who smoke while working and have trouble smoking at a measured pace.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="KevinM, post: 463448, member: 2318"] Me three, if I counted right. Also, pack it looser than usual. I looked at the "How to smoke a pipe properly" card that came with a new Savinelli, and it was specific about proper packing and pacing. But it was silent on the step method of break in. Interesting omission. I then consulted George Herment's The Pipe. In a chapter titled "Seasoning," Herment discusses different "pre-ignition" steps that smokers use to get a new pipe ready for the flame. Then he discusses the step method, acknowledging it may be beyond the patience of many pipers. He then says, "... the top of the bowl always seasons and chars sooner than the bottom by virtue of the more violent burning produced by lighting the pipe." So it seems that homogeneity was the rationale for the step method. When I was an unskilled newcomer to pipe smoking, afflicted by too firm packing and multiple relights, my pipes developed a cake that was much thicker at the top of the bowl and almost non-existent at the bottom. Now, with looser packing and slower smokes, I rarely need more than one or two relights, those coming toward the end of the bowl. Result: no more cake build up at top. So I guess that was the rationale for the step method. Maybe it was intended for vigorously puffing newbies and clenchers who smoke while working and have trouble smoking at a measured pace. [/QUOTE]
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