What is in your pipe?

ShawnOL · December 2025

Sutliff Cinnamon Delight and white burley.

memento_mori · December 2025

Dan Tobacco Ropers Roundels in the McLary.

Hawks · December 2025

HU Indaba in a Mark Twain modified to 7/8" with a cup of Peet's Major Dickason decaf.

ShawnOL · January 1

C&D White Burley in a Chacom Nougat.

ShawnOL · January 1

Now C&D Red Virginia. Also good.

dirtdude · January 1

What do you guys use when your pipes needs the cake reamed?

ShawnOL · January 1

Good question. Wondered that myself.

ShawnOL · January 1

Would this work?

https://www.amazon.com/Scotte-Pieces-Tobacco-Reamer-Cleaners/dp/B071P77PPZ/ref=mp_s_a_1_5?adgrpid=61746273011&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.ojHe3vityvVbZHLbR_bBunM03e_gsDidajsdDIryTx3nR8k1M3LK2U1fRwGO_cTAR-EuF2X76Lq4p5Qw0SLY7Kun8FkdUfQxohfDNt0JACJoEMSG7ENhOJTr4mqjVmZ_iZP6eTz2uZuB_D68ESnjFxu4Lp8J0bzzjce35cNA6hwqt-6rKsabO9lducPgsuYqNdZo8wo1ksj4PAe1QHUVuQ.zcthxUDPicFsFKB74EUzK5Ua2xmy9Jpi5IKRmTsZf08&dib_tag=se&hvadid=635367853843&hvdev=m&hvexpln=0&hvlocphy=9002021&hvnetw=g&hvocijid=3147729755248967987--&hvqmt=e&hvrand=3147729755248967987&hvtargid=kwd-315703803974&hydadcr=6747_13301135&keywords=smoking+pipe+reamer&mcid=1090463e27eb30f8b1f2a94c96036990&qid=1767247032&sr=8-5

dirtdude · January 1

Yea, that would work, just wondering what guys are using

d_blades · January 1

I use an old Rogers pipe knife. Seems less likely to do damage. Cleaned a Kaywoodie you couldn't get a little finger in to the wood. Smoking WCC Persian Slipper in a Dr Grabow.

Rdp77 · January 1

I used a variable speed Dremel with a sand paper attachment on the lowest setting to knock down the worst on one. Then used folded sandpaper from there.

dirtdude · January 1

I was kind of wondering if a Dremel would work. Donna is the Dremel queen, has 83000 attachments

Yakster · January 1

For everyday maintenance, I use a Rodgers pipe knife, but if I have an estate pipe I'm restoring with a lot of cake I'll use an adjustable reamer. I do have a reamer set like the one shown above with multiple heads but you have to hope that one of the head sizes fits the pipe and that's not always the case. With the Senior pipe reamer, you can adjust the size to fit and ream away and it comes with a drill bit for reaming out the shank / airway of the pipe too which is handy.

https://www.smokingpipes.com/accessories/pipe-tampers-and-tools/moreinfo.cfm?product_id=4392

If you soak the inside of the bowl of the pipe with salt and alcohol or cotton balls and alcohol, plugging the shank with a pipe cleaner to avoid getting alcohol on the outside finish of the pipe which it will ruin, then it'll soften up the cake and make it easier to remove.

Looks like Amazon has better prices. Be careful not to cut yourself on the blades of the reamer, though.

dirtdude · January 1

Thanks guys, I don't mind buying a tool if I need one but the Dremel worked great, thanks Rusty. I'm sure more could be taken off and I might get one of those tools eventually but for now I'm happy, I think this bowl holds twice what it did before

dirtdude · January 1

C&D Old Joe Kranz Blue Label in the freshly reamed Stanwell

Yakster · January 1

C&D King Cake in my Andrey Kharitonov tomato.

ShawnOL · January 2

C&D Dark Burley/ Cinnamon Delight.

Hawks · January 2

Finishing up some ODF from last night. Tried to make it to midnight but fell asleep while smoking this bowl and watching fireworks from around the world. 😆

ShawnOL · January 2

Smoking from my WTF jar. Not bad.

ShawnOL · January 2

@d_blades , check your messages.

d_blades · January 3

Replied.
EMP in a Country Gentleman.

Hawks · January 4

This was way earlier. Received an ounce of 2023 L.J.P. Thanksgiving Day in a recent trade. Most of what I've read said the blend changes over time. It sure does but I'm still on the fence on whether or not it's worth keeping.

memento_mori · January 4

memento_mori · January 4

ShawnOL · January 4

From @Hawks . Thanks, Chris. Pretty good!

Hawks · January 4

Hell yeah, glad you like it. If you decide you don't, @Yakster does. 😆

Cheapsmoke · January 4

Kramer's Blend for Cary Grant in a Falcon chimney bowl.
I dont think its as strong in any way as Kramer's Father Dempsey
but to me very cold air seems to kill almost all of a tobaccos flavor.

Yakster · January 5

Dry run with my pipe roll, Samuel Gawith 1792 Flake in my Chacom Club 168.

d_blades · January 5

Had a bowl of EMP, followed by PS Natural Dutch in the same cob

Hawks · January 6

HU Dark Moor in what has become my taster cob. This blend is a goood one. Three O's for how much I like it.

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