What are your preferred/favorite instruments and techniques for lighting a pipe? For a while I liked using a torch lighter (two buddies who are line cooks swear by creme brulee torches). I've given up on two finicky Ronsons and recently switched back to this little guy (partly because I like its little push-button blade).
Pipe Lighting
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To light my pipe I use wooden matches to get it going, then I'll switch to a Zippo for the rest of the way.
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In perfect conditions, a match
Nothing better, historically, metaphysically...whatever
I use and endorse the one dollar round Clipper lighters
Refillable
Replaceable flint
Tamper, perfect round-sized tamper
When you are at WalMmart check them out
I also order quantity from Amazon
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Nothing better, historically, metaphysically...whatever
I use and endorse the one dollar round Clipper lighters
Refillable
Replaceable flint
Tamper, perfect round-sized tamper
When you are at WalMmart check them out
I also order quantity from Amazon
Best buck I ever spent
The metaphysics of pipe smoking might make an interesting thread...Middle Earth wrote: ↑Sun Sep 29, 2019 11:32 am In perfect conditions, a match
Nothing better, historically, metaphysically...whatever
I use and endorse the one dollar round Clipper lighters
Refillable
Replaceable flint
Tamper, perfect round-sized tamper
When you are at WalMmart check them out
I also order quantity from Amazon
Best buck I ever spent
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That’s exactly what I do Ray.Ray Mackessy wrote: ↑Sun Sep 29, 2019 11:06 am To light my pipe I use wooden matches to get it going, then I'll switch to a Zippo for the rest of the way.
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Wooden matches. When I'm out, a Zippo.
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Clipper . . .
Will no longer complicate life by maintaining expensive pipe lighters.
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Will no longer complicate life by maintaining expensive pipe lighters.
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Zippo, no pipe insert.
Since I usually keep a torch lighter on my desk for machine made cigars, I sometimes accidentally pick up the torch. I notice it, too, as the torch lighter's three flames get hissing. [I like my cigars the way I like my women, big enough to have something to hold onto, which makes them hard to set alight. I wish someone would make machine made Churchills.]. When I notice that I've got the butane torch fired up, I pause and look at it. "Do I really want to destroy this bowl?" I ask myself. Sometimes I do. Most of the time, I don't.
Since I usually keep a torch lighter on my desk for machine made cigars, I sometimes accidentally pick up the torch. I notice it, too, as the torch lighter's three flames get hissing. [I like my cigars the way I like my women, big enough to have something to hold onto, which makes them hard to set alight. I wish someone would make machine made Churchills.]. When I notice that I've got the butane torch fired up, I pause and look at it. "Do I really want to destroy this bowl?" I ask myself. Sometimes I do. Most of the time, I don't.