Candle light

[Wheels]

I've been trying to re-learn how to smoke a pipe. I've been sitting in the patio and using matches to re-light, which is often. I wondered if maybe I could figure out something easier. Here's what I came up with.

I wrapped some printer paper around a votive candle and secured it with tape. Then I trimmed it to protect the flame from breezes but leave an opening for a re-light. I have a bunch of these wooden stemmed swabs. When I want a re-light I just stick the stem in the flame and light it. Once the pipe is lit, I blow it out and it's ready to be used again.

I'm sure I'm not the first to come up with something like this, but I haven't come across it yet.

 

[beerandbaccy]

I would be careful with getting wax on your pipe/tobacco. Also unless a smokeless candle you may be sucking in some smoke that tastes bad or alters the flavour. I would get a windproof lighter .
It's a good investment for the outdoor pipe smoker!

 

[Chasing Embers]

I just frequently tamp to keep the pipe from going out.

 

[Wheels]

I would be careful with getting wax on your pipe/tobacco. Also unless a smokeless candle you may be sucking in some smoke that tastes bad or alters the flavour. I would get a windproof lighter .
It's a good investment for the outdoor pipe smoker!

Thanks, but the pipe never gets close to the candle. I just use the candle to light the wooden swab. I am looking at lighters.

 

[Wheels]

I just frequently tamp to keep the pipe from going out.

I tamp too, but I'm not there yet.

 

[Doctor Chopper]

Zippo - pipe insert

 

[kcghost]

Well, it is different and innovative, but it isn't something that I think will catch on.

 

[Chasing Embers]

I tamp too, but I'm not there yet.

Do you draw as you tamp?

 

[Wheels]

Well, it is different and innovative, but it isn't something that I think will catch on.

I'm sure you're right.

 

[Wheels]

Do you draw as you tamp?

Is that the secret? No, I haven't been. I haven't been tamping until the fire goes out.

 

[Chasing Embers]

Is that the secret?

That it is. Apply the tamper as you smoke. Tobacco expands when heated and lifts the ember off of the unburned stands. Apply the tamper to bring the ember back into contact with the tobacco as you draw.

 

[Wheels]

That it is.

Thanks, I'll try doing that.

 

[AJL67]

Thanks, I'll try doing that.

Let the weight of the tamper do most of the work you don't want to crush the ember just gently push it down a bit while you take a puff.

 

[InWithBothFeet]

Careful with the candle smoke. Smoke in your mouth isn't healthy from what I've heard.

 

[proteus]

Getting a good even cherry along the entirety of the tobacco surface is key otherwise you'll tunnel. On the first light as the tobacco pops up keep lighting. Get it going until a flame comes out the top or close to it. You'll see all the surface a glow. Also don't touch the flame to tobacco. Just the heat itself from the flame is drawn down. There is a lot of heat in a flame where there is no light. The flame is just superheated air causing carbon to give off light. There is still plenty of heat just outside the glowing flame.

 

[Medy]

Zippo - pipe insert

Which one the fluid or butane insert? I have a butane one and it goes out with the slightest breeze

 

[Old Smokey]

I just frequently tamp to keep the pipe from going out.

Frequent tamping saves me a lot of relights.

 

[Chasing Embers]

Which one the fluid or butane insert? I have a butane one and it goes out with the slightest breeze

Fluid

 

[Sobrbiker]

Thanks, I'll try doing that.

Lightly and often. Tamping is nothing like packing it down.

 

[Lumbridge]

This is basically what is known as a "spill" in the cigar world. Basically it's like using a match that doesn't have a striking head and must be lit from another source of flame. You might consider a less flammable surrounding for the candle, maybe a tall tin can or something, and I definitely wouldn't use a scented candle.