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PROBLEMS |
REMEDIES |
The pipe does not draw |
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| Tobacco pressed too tightly
Tobacco overheated
Stem obstructed |
Empty and refill without pressing the tobacco as much. Clean with a pipe cleaner |
The pipe is sour |
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| Poor quality tobacco or too strong |
Change tobacco |
| After changing tobacco: |
Let the pipe rest for 3 days and then smoke it again with light tobacco until it returns sweet |
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Pipe not well seasoned
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It is a known fact that some brands are harder to break in than others or to ripen in flavor. This depends mainly on the seasoning. It should be sufficient, in any case, to build up a nice cake to insulate the bowl, possibly with the aid of a little honey left to dry first inside the bowl. That will sweeten the hardest pipe. |
The pipe overheats |
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| Tobacco too tightly pressed |
Empty and refill |
| Tobacco too damp |
Empty and refill without pressing the tobacco as much. Let the tobacco dry
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| Poor quality tobacco |
Change tobacco |
| The pipe is about to burn |
Check the walls of the bowl for any irregularity, try to save it by careful breaking in, possibly using honey to accelerate cake formation |
The pipe gurgles |
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| Poor quality tobacco |
Change tobacco |
| Abundant salivation |
Choose a straight pipe to prevent pooling |
| The pipe does not draw well or is clogged |
Clean with the rough brush and check with an expert for any malformation of the draft hole or mouthpiece |
The pipe keeps going out |
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| Tobacco too damp |
Let dry |
| The pipe was not filled and lighted correctly |
Read the manual more carefully |
The smoke tastes flat and the tobacco burns too fast |
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| Tobacco too dry |
Moisten (many tobaccos never regain their original aroma after drying). Don't let it dry. |
The pipe does not satisfy |
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| The shape of the pipe is unsuitable |
Buying a pipe is a matter of taste. First of all, the pipe is one of the few masculine accessories that reveal the personality of its owner. However a tall, slim person will appear more elegant with a pipe that reflects his physical characteristics. The same is true of a stocky person, who will look better with a rather large pipe, or a short man who will look better with a small pipe, and so on. |
| The dimensions of the pipe are unsuitable |
Ask for a mirror and a bag of test pipes to see how you look. A small pipe is convenient because you can have shorter smokes and can carry it around with others in a small amount of space, however the downside is that it has little to offer and you may quickly tire of it. Historically, pipes began to grow larger with the fashion of free forms in the Seventies. Now the process of miniaturization in personal electronic objects is influencing the design of pipes with a return to small ones. However from the point of view of the smoke, statistically speaking, the most widely sold pipes without filter are the ones in group 5 (with a bowl of the average capacity of 5 gr. of tobacco) or with 9mm.filter those in group 6 (largely because of the better esthetic proportions of the larger shank housing the filter and the head). Dimensions and filter are, in any case, always a subject of discussion and remain expressions of personal taste |
| Straight pipe, bent pipe |
We choose a pipe the way we do a necktie. It is a matter of personal taste. Certainly a straight pipe is easier to smoke but harder to hold between your teeth because it applies leverage, especially if it is large. For this reason, the largest pipes are bent or semi-curved. However these shapes tend to pool saliva that inadvertently ends up in the mouthpiece and “gurgles” (the typical sign of a beginner, but it happens to a lot of others too) |
