Nicely done. My father was a pipe, cigar and tobacco dealer and I was working part time in his store when I was 12. I have just started smoking a pipe again and enjoyed my first pipe smoke in years. I have a very old Missouri corn cobber and filled it with some Mac Baren Plumcake Navy cut. That was enjoyable! Next I will try my antique pipe from Turkey. Thanks for a great video!
Great video explaining how you break in your pipe. I am from just outside of New Orleans. I enjoy watching your videos. I have my pipes custom made, and the inside of the bowl is coated with a carbon like paint and it helps when breaking in the pipe. Happy smokes. ..
First time I've heard this technique, it actually started to make more and more sense as it went on. Protect the top half, then finish the bottom. Going to try it for sure.
Hi Mike, really enjoyed your videos, much Sage advice ! Hope everything is well with you we are missing your videos. Take care and wishing you the best !
I always use a burley to break in my pipes. Sutliff burley delight, Carter Hall, or Lane burley delight without bite. Good video. I never use honey, and I start off with tobacco in the mid point. Smoke that until ashes. Load up above the last level and smoke that down. Then fill to the top and smoke until ashes. I’ll smoke the new one everyday for a week until it is broken in. I clean the pipe and let it sit in the pipe stand for a month. I’ve been a piper for 30 + years and I prefer Aston pipes. ( jimmy Craig makes a better Ashton than Bill did). That’s how I do it. I’m very careful with the lighting and always, always take my time. Everyone has their own way. I guess that’s the joy of the pipe. Enjoy.
Ethan Thank you! That would be a real long series. So many pipes and tobaccos, I still have confusion on all that myself. There's a lot of information on pipe tobacco out there. Start with tobaccoreviews.com and for pipes, just look at as many as you can and chose what catches your eye and price range. The rest is just experimenting with things.
I bought a pipe on eBay & the seller included a couple of ounces of Newfoundland blend. It was very good tobacco. Also, my father was from Newfoundland. A couple of coincidences right there. I enjoyed your video.
Hey Mike, just wanted to say thank you for your videos; I know you've moved & slowed down a bit, due to health reasons, but man your advice is still respected & well regarded amongst the community... I'm using your exact technique to break-in a new pipe I recently got... Again, thank you - and I hope you & yours have a very Merry Christmas! - Mark
Hello Mark! Well those are sure some kind words! I hope the break in on the new pipe goes well for you. There's nothing finer than a nice new pipe is there? Take it slow and easy and enjoy every bit of it! You have a Blessed and Merry Christmas as well!!
Thank you for the very informative video, Mark! You are very knowledgeable and have enabled me to break-in my new briar, that I made, with ease and confidence. Nice hat by the way. I order most of my cigars through them.
New to pipe smoking here. Been a cigar guy for years. Thanks for the video...very informative. Plus that is one badass pipe you're puffing on. I'm gonna snag one of those eventually.
Enjoyed the vid Mike, while smoking Maple Street in a 1950's Kaywoodie Mandarin. The clips I like the best are when the person is smoking their pipe. Sorry it rained on your day off. Be well, and God bless ~ Guy
I've visited the Gatlinburlier myself. Nice little shop. I liked their pipe selection. Quite a variety. If you ever make it further over the mountains to Knoxville, check out Smoky's. They are my local B&M. Great shop with a large selection of bulk tobacco.
I've been a cigar smoker for years but I'm venturing in to the world of pipe smoking because I've always enjoyed being around the aromas a pipe smoker gives off. Trying to learn all that I can before receiving my new pipe kit. It's confusing to me because there seems to be a lot, and I mean a lot of different opinions about how to break in a new pipe. Just watched another video that pretty much said just the opposite of what this video said about filling the bowl on a virgin pipe. Adding to the confusion is that they all have pretty convincing arguments for their methodology. I'm totally lost, lol.
STYROFOAM PIPES ARE THE HARDEST TYPE PIPES TO BREAK IN - BUT I BET THE GUY IN THE VIDEO COULD DO IT! LMAO! GOOD VIDEO - GOOD ADVICE - KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK!
We talk about breaking in a new pipe, but no one talks about seasoning the bowl. And yes, this can also be done with your well used or estate pipes. Here's how it works: first, give the pipe a good scrubbing. If an older pipe get rid of any excess cake build up or dottle (with cobs be gentle because they need a little pipe mud at the bottom). Next pack a full but loose amount of an aromatic such as cherry or vanilla. Smoke all the way down, tampering occasionally. Once cool, dump the ash and let the pipe set. Maybe an hour or two. Finally fill the bowl with a different blend, perhaps an American English or straight burley like Velvet. Light and smoke it down, dump ashes once cooled and let the pipe sit overnight. In the morning scrub out the bowl. Then it will be ready to go. Finding out this helps to eliminate bite and gives one a much smoother smoke.
Thanks Mike, once a good learing video, I was always thinking the use of Burley forward blend advisable with new pipe, such as Mc Barens Golden Extra or PA- SWR Otc's, but again I gotta learn to properly to use my lighters, since obviously I'm somekind of expert in getting rims darkened, those bics and other might tour extremly fateful to rim (a la Ol Condger way)not to mention those of torch lighters,keep away of them. Thank you, and greets, Paul
Hello Paul. Yes sir, nothing can ruin a pipe faster than being careless with the lighter. Not only will over use of the lighter burn your pipe and pipe rim, but it will also ruin your tobacco and make it taste bad. Burley, being a blend that burns slow and cool is by far the best tobacco to use while breaking in a new pipe! Cheers my friend....and Stay away from those Bic and torch lighters!! LOL
Thanks for this suggestion, though I already got me that Peterson Lighter(silver striped $70) for indoor use and then if need arises for outdoor I have a Brass zippo with pipe insert, altough Xikar brand may offer even better value and equal quality? than Peterson lighter does, then we have that good value KiriBi Kabutos smokingpupes exclusive , definitely a good value I assume,
@@hagenjari8 www.alpascia.com They are in Italy, but they ship fedex express for about $11.00. Make sure when you look you select "English" and "No tax" or "Vat". They are the cheapest place around for ser jacopo pipes.
BetitoBass Thanks my friend. The lighter is a Xikar resource 2. Buy it once, and you never buy it again. It has a no questions asked lifetime warranty!
I´m just now trying to craft my first own pipe from cherry wood. (bowl diameter is .787 x 1.181 inch. small bowl as i am not a frequent smoker) Is cherry any different from briar? And would it be wise to break it in with mixed aromatic tobaccos (like the VAUEN "himalaya blend")?
I would advise not using using cherry wood to make a pipe. Briar is very hard and fire resistant. Cherry, not so much. Just my opinion for what it's worth. Either way, have fun with it!
Great I'm on the right path. When you pack the bowl the first few times do you use the three step method? I was advised to just pack the bowl to the top, not to tamp it, smoke it to the bottom, and then dump the ash. Not to clean the bowl, and repeat for about 7 smokes. I'm in the process of breaking in my first Savanelli unfinished and don't want to hurt the briar. Thank you my friend!
jbmopar1971 You can use the 3 step method for sure. With unfinished briar, you wanna smoke slow! And try not to relight the pipe much. Tamping is fine...that isn't gonna do anything bad.That bowl has no coating or cake yet and it can burn real easy. I would use a burley blend to break it in. I would clean the bowl after each smoke by gently wiping it out with a pipe cleaner folded in half. Don't be in a hurry in anyway! Good luck!
I'm about to break in my new Peterson, and I've been watching a few videos like this to make sure I don't mess it up. Several others cover the bowl with their fingers and shake it to coat the bowl with ash to build a cake. Do you do this as well? Thank you and great video!
Smokin' Briar no i didn't at first just some leaves and I thought I might of packed it too tight so I scraped it out and tried to just suck air out of an empty bowl and nothing then I took apart my pipe and I looked in the stim and there was like a blockage so I tried to clean it and the end of my stem snapped and it was glued shut
Cody Gardner Wow...thats not good. Sounds like that pipe is ruined unless you put a new stem on it. Is it a nice pipe? You can have a new stem made for it, but it will cost you about $25-30 for it.
it was a 15 dollar pipe I bought at a smoke shop I drive a semi and was gonna be down for the evening so I figured I'd get a pipe reminds me of my grandpa when I actually got around to it I found out it glued they were already closed for the night I was just gonna try and find a cheap stim in the next town I go to
Cody Gardner I don't think you'll find just the stem and chances are it won't the pipe you have if you do find one. Try and find a rite-aid or Walgreens pharmacy. They both sell corn cob pipes and Dr. grabow pipes. Get one of those and try again. The corn cob pipes are less than $10 And the smoke great!
I'm an experienced pipe smoker, and I still found some helpful tips in this video. Very detailed and thorough.
Nicely done. My father was a pipe, cigar and tobacco dealer and I was working part time in his store when I was 12. I have just started smoking a pipe again and enjoyed my first pipe smoke in years. I have a very old Missouri corn cobber and filled it with some Mac Baren Plumcake Navy cut. That was enjoyable! Next I will try my antique pipe from Turkey. Thanks for a great video!
+NewHampshireBoy Thank you my friend! I appreciate you watching! I'm glad you're getting back into the pipe smoking hobby again! Be well....
Great video explaining how you break in your pipe. I am from just outside of New Orleans. I enjoy watching your videos. I have my pipes custom made, and the inside of the bowl is coated with a carbon like paint and it helps when breaking in the pipe.
Happy smokes. ..
First time I've heard this technique, it actually started to make more and more sense as it went on. Protect the top half, then finish the bottom. Going to try it for sure.
I love cigars and I know nothing about pipes. Thanks for your videos because I’m thinking about entering into the world of pipes 🇺🇸
ron grimes
Me too! I love the glass ones!
Hi Mike, really enjoyed your videos, much Sage advice ! Hope everything is well with you we are missing your videos. Take care and wishing you the best !
I like your method. It makes sense. Thanks. I'm getting a new churchwarden in a few days so I will consider what you had to say
I always use a burley to break in my pipes. Sutliff burley delight, Carter Hall, or Lane burley delight without bite. Good video. I never use honey, and I start off with tobacco in the mid point. Smoke that until ashes. Load up above the last level and smoke that down. Then fill to the top and smoke until ashes. I’ll smoke the new one everyday for a week until it is broken in. I clean the pipe and let it sit in the pipe stand for a month. I’ve been a piper for 30 + years and I prefer Aston pipes. ( jimmy Craig makes a better Ashton than Bill did).
That’s how I do it. I’m very careful with the lighting and always, always take my time. Everyone has their own way. I guess that’s the joy of the pipe. Enjoy.
You can try and use those churchwarden cleaners all you want, but on a pipe like Gandalf's in Lord of the Rings -they shall not pass.
I often wonder....Where did Gandalf buy his pipe cleaners??
Thats a golden comment right here 😂
Lol Gandalf cleaned his with magic.
Hahahaha
Great vid, you're easy to listen to. I'd enjoy a series on the different major types of tobaccos and what kind of pipes to smoke each with. Cheers!
Ethan Thank you! That would be a real long series. So many pipes and tobaccos, I still have confusion on all that myself. There's a lot of information on pipe tobacco out there. Start with tobaccoreviews.com and for pipes, just look at as many as you can and chose what catches your eye and price range. The rest is just experimenting with things.
Watched you video for the first time very informative.I see your from NC cool my wife and I are moving there as well.
I bought a pipe on eBay & the seller included a couple of ounces of Newfoundland blend. It was very good tobacco. Also, my father was from Newfoundland. A couple of coincidences right there. I enjoyed your video.
Hey Mike, just wanted to say thank you for your videos; I know you've moved & slowed down a bit, due to health reasons, but man your advice is still respected & well regarded amongst the community... I'm using your exact technique to break-in a new pipe I recently got... Again, thank you - and I hope you & yours have a very Merry Christmas! - Mark
Hello Mark! Well those are sure some kind words! I hope the break in on the new pipe goes well for you. There's nothing finer than a nice new pipe is there? Take it slow and easy and enjoy every bit of it! You have a Blessed and Merry Christmas as well!!
Yes sir, will do!
Nice vid. Cigar smoker, just starting out the pipe experience. Wish me luck!
JL Sagely hah, me too... just going that way myself... enjoy mate.
Thank you for the very informative video, Mark! You are very knowledgeable and have enabled me to break-in my new briar, that I made, with ease and confidence. Nice hat by the way. I order most of my cigars through them.
Glad to be of some help to you!
I was off today, and of course it rained lol. Thanks for the kind words Alec! The pipe smokes like a dream!
New to pipe smoking here. Been a cigar guy for years. Thanks for the video...very informative. Plus that is one badass pipe you're puffing on. I'm gonna snag one of those eventually.
+MrScott6465 If you decide to get a Ser Jacopo pipe, check out www.alpascia.com for the best prices on them! Thanks for watching1
Enjoyed the vid Mike, while smoking Maple Street in a 1950's Kaywoodie Mandarin. The clips I like the best are when the person is smoking their pipe. Sorry it rained on your day off. Be well, and God bless ~ Guy
Guy Witherspoon Hello Guy! Thanks for stopping buy my friend and sharing a pipe with me!! Take care!
I've visited the Gatlinburlier myself. Nice little shop. I liked their pipe selection. Quite a variety. If you ever make it further over the mountains to Knoxville, check out Smoky's. They are my local B&M. Great shop with a large selection of bulk tobacco.
Paul Bielicki I will be sure to check them out! Thanks for watching.
We are Always Bless to Hear your Advice (-:
Trausti Thornysson Well that is very kind of you to say!
I've been a cigar smoker for years but I'm venturing in to the world of pipe smoking because I've always enjoyed being around the aromas a pipe smoker gives off. Trying to learn all that I can before receiving my new pipe kit. It's confusing to me because there seems to be a lot, and I mean a lot of different opinions about how to break in a new pipe. Just watched another video that pretty much said just the opposite of what this video said about filling the bowl on a virgin pipe. Adding to the confusion is that they all have pretty convincing arguments for their methodology. I'm totally lost, lol.
STYROFOAM PIPES ARE THE HARDEST TYPE PIPES TO BREAK IN - BUT I BET THE GUY IN THE VIDEO COULD DO IT!
LMAO!
GOOD VIDEO - GOOD ADVICE - KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK!
That is certainly a great looking pipe. Thanks for the thoughts, seems pretty sound to me. Enjoy.
Colin Kelly Hey Colin, I appreciate you stopping buy! Be well my friend
Do you rest the pipe when its new? If so, how many days? NIce video, beautiful pips.
🙏🏻 thank you so much. Very educational for a beginner like myself.
That is one awesome-looking pipe!
Thank You!
That is one nice looking pipe!
+NewHampshireBoy Thanks!
very informative and instructional! Thank you.
Shiraz Isam You're very welcome!
I love that pipe in the picture when you click on the video. Anyone know what that one is?
We talk about breaking in a new pipe, but no one talks about seasoning the bowl. And yes, this can also be done with your well used or estate pipes. Here's how it works: first, give the pipe a good scrubbing. If an older pipe get rid of any excess cake build up or dottle (with cobs be gentle because they need a little pipe mud at the bottom). Next pack a full but loose amount of an aromatic such as cherry or vanilla. Smoke all the way down, tampering occasionally. Once cool, dump the ash and let the pipe set. Maybe an hour or two. Finally fill the bowl with a different blend, perhaps an American English or straight burley like Velvet. Light and smoke it down, dump ashes once cooled and let the pipe sit overnight. In the morning scrub out the bowl. Then it will be ready to go. Finding out this helps to eliminate bite and gives one a much smoother smoke.
Great Job!
About how many bowls dose it take to build a cake in the chamber? Good Presentation !
I am new to pipe smoking, but I guess I need to "break in" my pipe, cause at the moment it only tastes like ash
Thanks Mike, once a good learing video,
I was always thinking the use of Burley forward blend advisable with new pipe, such as Mc Barens Golden Extra or PA- SWR Otc's, but again I gotta learn to properly to use my lighters, since obviously I'm somekind of expert in getting rims darkened, those bics and other might tour extremly fateful to rim (a la Ol Condger way)not to mention those of torch lighters,keep away of them. Thank you, and greets, Paul
Hello Paul. Yes sir, nothing can ruin a pipe faster than being careless with the lighter. Not only will over use of the lighter burn your pipe and pipe rim, but it will also ruin your tobacco and make it taste bad. Burley, being a blend that burns slow and cool is by far the best tobacco to use while breaking in a new pipe! Cheers my friend....and Stay away from those Bic and torch lighters!! LOL
Ok, even many seem like those Bic's but I do find them being rather treacherous,,has bad flame control
Buy a Xikar Pipe Lighter Paul. You will never have any trouble again, and they are a one time purchase because they are covered by Xikar for ever!
Thanks for this suggestion, though I already got me that Peterson Lighter(silver striped $70) for indoor use and then if need arises for outdoor I have a Brass zippo with pipe insert, altough Xikar brand may offer even better value and equal quality? than Peterson lighter does, then we have that good value KiriBi Kabutos smokingpupes exclusive , definitely a good value I assume,
i was given my great grandfathers pipes and they need cleaned but im curious to if i should do my own cake or just leave what he already had on there
What kind of pipe is that and how much was it?
Its a ser jacopo pipe made in Italy. The price was around $150.
Smokin' Briar Awesome thank you
Is there a website you'd recommend to buy one for that price? I can only find them at smokingpipes.com but they're well over $200
@@hagenjari8 www.alpascia.com
They are in Italy, but they ship fedex express for about $11.00. Make sure when you look you select "English" and "No tax" or "Vat". They are the cheapest place around for ser jacopo pipes.
Smokin' Briar Awesome thank you! Would you put them above Peterson pipes?
Can't wait get good pipe back
That’s a nice pipe
What pipe is in the picture just before the video starts?
Great video, my friend! What lighter is that you're using?
BetitoBass Thanks my friend. The lighter is a Xikar resource 2. Buy it once, and you never buy it again. It has a no questions asked lifetime warranty!
Oh, wow. That's fantastic! Appreciate the reply. Happy smoking.
BetitoBass My pleasure!
I´m just now trying to craft my first own pipe from cherry wood. (bowl diameter is .787 x 1.181 inch. small bowl as i am not a frequent smoker) Is cherry any different from briar? And would it be wise to break it in with mixed aromatic tobaccos (like the VAUEN "himalaya blend")?
I would advise not using using cherry wood to make a pipe. Briar is very hard and fire resistant. Cherry, not so much. Just my opinion for what it's worth. Either way, have fun with it!
Isn't charcoal carbon?
I made it by myself thanks to woodprix plans. I think it's the best way to learn how to build.
Perfect to me Vlad.
Great I'm on the right path. When you pack the bowl the first few times do you use the three step method? I was advised to just pack the bowl to the top, not to tamp it, smoke it to the bottom, and then dump the ash. Not to clean the bowl, and repeat for about 7 smokes. I'm in the process of breaking in my first Savanelli unfinished and don't want to hurt the briar. Thank you my friend!
jbmopar1971 You can use the 3 step method for sure. With unfinished briar, you wanna smoke slow! And try not to relight the pipe much. Tamping is fine...that isn't gonna do anything bad.That bowl has no coating or cake yet and it can burn real easy. I would use a burley blend to break it in. I would clean the bowl after each smoke by gently wiping it out with a pipe cleaner folded in half. Don't be in a hurry in anyway! Good luck!
Smokin' Briar thanks again!
Hi
If i may ask.. can you tell me plz if there is a tobacco shop sale ..sunday's fantasy pipe tobacco in tenessee..
Thanks alot.
can u smoke an English and a va/per in the same pipe??
Thanks for the tip :)
I paint the inside of my pipes with mixture of creme and "Activated Charcoal".... Let dry for 3 days... They are pre-broken in!
Good info...thanks for sharing
Big Al The Crusher Hey Al...Thanks for watching!!
How long should the break in process take?
It depends on the type of tobacco you smoke and how you smoke it. I would say about a half dozen bowls should put you in good shape.
+Smokin' Briar thank you for your advice!
Very helpful Thx Sir
I'm glad to be of help if I can. Thanks!
I'm about to break in my new Peterson, and I've been watching a few videos like this to make sure I don't mess it up. Several others cover the bowl with their fingers and shake it to coat the bowl with ash to build a cake. Do you do this as well? Thank you and great video!
Mitch Droese No, i don't do that. Most Petersons come pre carbon lined so there's no need to. You want to smoke it just like is.
Smokin' Briar thank you for the reply! I'm going to give it a shot!
Smokin' Briar
what are your thoughts on pre carbonized pipe technologies? I'm against it myself.
Very good. I fill mine with good ole Prince Albert and let her rip :)
I can't get any air through the stim even if there isn't any air flow it's like something is stopping the air
Cody Gardner Do you have the tobacco packed to tight in the bowl? That will block your airflow in the stem.
Smokin' Briar no i didn't at first just some leaves and I thought I might of packed it too tight so I scraped it out and tried to just suck air out of an empty bowl and nothing then I took apart my pipe and I looked in the stim and there was like a blockage so I tried to clean it and the end of my stem snapped and it was glued shut
Cody Gardner Wow...thats not good. Sounds like that pipe is ruined unless you put a new stem on it. Is it a nice pipe? You can have a new stem made for it, but it will cost you about $25-30 for it.
it was a 15 dollar pipe I bought at a smoke shop I drive a semi and was gonna be down for the evening so I figured I'd get a pipe reminds me of my grandpa when I actually got around to it I found out it glued they were already closed for the night I was just gonna try and find a cheap stim in the next town I go to
Cody Gardner I don't think you'll find just the stem and chances are it won't the pipe you have if you do find one. Try and find a rite-aid or Walgreens pharmacy. They both sell corn cob pipes and Dr. grabow pipes. Get one of those and try again. The corn cob pipes are less than $10 And the smoke great!
Who here was looking for a meth pipe break in?
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