@motie2, @PappyJoe Thanks for the info. Yes, I have used this method in the past at PappyJoes suggestion and it worked very well for me on heavily Latakia ghosted pipes. Actually I first learned of the coffee grounds method from PappyJoe right here🙂.
This Dunhill had been cleaned out pretty well, the ghost was just barely discernible, but I have “super tastebuds”. I did not think this particular pipe needed the coffee or salt treatment, a few bowls of aromatics should be fine. Personally I am not a fan of using water to clean a briar pipes except to remove water soluble bowl coatings, and then only with a damp cloth, and never on a meerschaum. Good briar cutters and pipe artisans go to great lengths to completely dry briar, most for several years. Meerschaum will get soft with water, that is how they are carved, they should dry pretty quickly though.
Earlier today I smoked a bowl of "Good "Ole" Prince Albert in a MM Cob. The earlier part of the day was in the high 40's, and I thought this was appropriate to go out and take the Christmas lights off the porch rails and our huge Blue Spruce tree. That bowl lasted about 45 minutes on one light from my Zippo. This was my first smoke in probably 1 1/2 weeks or so. I find it amazing how with all the blends that I have collected, the feeling and the comfort I get smoking some of the "classic" blends. Strange how after not smoking for a bit of time how I most always go back to to the basics first time out. Nostalgia?
C&D’s “Sugarplum” in the Dunhill #5226. I did not like the amount of dottle left in the bottom of this deeply bent pipe the first few times I smoked it. I decided to bring the heel of the pipe up to the bottom of the airway with some “pipe mud”. It smoked equally well and now with much less dottle. I think I might make a tamper with a wedge foot, one that guides the tobacco near the bottom of a bent pipes airway. My current tampers won’t angle enough in deep bowled pipes to accomplish this.
Earlier today I was able to get a lunt in around the neighborhood while there was daylight out. Puffed away on G&H's Bob's Chocolate Flake in my Jobey Billiard.
@RockyMountainBriar Really like your idea for a slanted foot tamper. When you get around to making it and you've used it a couple of times, please let us know your observations...
Smoked some PS Proper English in a db
Design Berlin Conference 221 while driving around the neighborhood trying to chill out after discovering that I am replacing my hot water heater in the morning.
Actually enjoying a bowl of Orlik Golden Sliced in my Charles Towne Cobbler. I say “actually” because I’ve never really cared for it in the past. Always tasted & smelled too “cigarettey” to me. This jar has about 2 years of age on it. So, that’s the reason or my tastebuds haves changed.
@mapletop - Our rental property’s hot water heater just went out this week. There must be something in the water (or pipe-weed)!
I was fortunate, I called a local plumber friend who also belongs to the same sportsman's club as I because he gets a much better pricing than I can get.
He showed up at the house a 8:15 am with the new unit. I had already drained and disconnected the old one, he looked at me and said Ive got a little time so he just jumped in and installed it, about 4-5 times faster than it would have taken me.
Wouldn't let me pay for the labor and charged me what he paid for the unit. Great guy can't say enough about him.
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Thanks for the info.
Yes, I have used this method in the past at PappyJoes suggestion and it worked very well for me on heavily Latakia ghosted pipes. Actually I first learned of the coffee grounds method from PappyJoe right here🙂.
Personally I am not a fan of using water to clean a briar pipes except to remove water soluble bowl coatings, and then only with a damp cloth, and never on a meerschaum. Good briar cutters and pipe artisans go to great lengths to completely dry briar, most for several years. Meerschaum will get soft with water, that is how they are carved, they should dry pretty quickly though.
I think I might make a tamper with a wedge foot, one that guides the tobacco near the bottom of a bent pipes airway. My current tampers won’t angle enough in deep bowled pipes to accomplish this.
When you get around to making it and you've used it a couple of times, please let us know your observations...
Ozone Treatment for Odor
https://pipesmagazine.com/forums/threads/ozone-treatment-for-odor.27702/Ozone Treatments And Vulcanite
https://pipesmagazine.com/forums/threads/ozone-treatments-and-vulcanite.49751/It's not Escudo, but it's pleasant enough.....