I am a pipe smoker not a pipe rester - questioning the need to rest or rotate pipes

http://smokingpipetobacco.com There is a popular belief in the pipe smoking community that unless a pipe is "rested" at least a day or two between uses it will go sour. Here I discuss my own investigations in this area. I did an experiment with one of my favorite pipes. I smoked that pipe every day - at least three full bowls of tobacco, and I describe the results in this video. Smoking Larsen's Old Fashioned in a Savinelli Hand Made.

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[frodo70444]

i don't even own a good pipe yet but my common sense tells me the sour pipe would be a result of people never taking it out of their mouth and as they talk or just focus on other things they tend to drool and let saliva run down through the mouthpiece and build up in the pipe..but i could be wrong it has happened before

[1968eric]

@frodo70444 I guess you didn't watch the video. A sour pipe is the result of not cleaning a pipe. It is not the result of smoking it too often. So yes, you are right, continuously drooling into a pipe and never taking it out of your mouth will create problems. Those problems wouldn't be limited to a sour pipe.

[frodo70444]

@1968eric oh no sir i watched the video as well as a few others of yours. i just notice you seem to take your pipe out of your mouth while you talk and i have seen other videos where people dont and i did my own redneck math and there ya have it.

[1968eric]

@frodo70444 LOL, yeah I am definitely not much of a clencher. The main point I want to get across to people, especially those with small growing collections, is that they don't need to sweat it. Smoke your pipes as much as you want, use lots of pipe cleaners during and after each smoke, and you won't need to worry about soured pipes. Even if you drool a lot. :-) Thanks very much for your comments. Always appreciated.

[beholderlt]

i've found that my pipes gave a wonderful smoke after resting for 2 months, but when i started smoking them every second day they didn't give such a pleasant smoke.

[1968eric]

@beholderlt I've found mine give a wonderful smoke after I clean them and allow them to cool off.

[TheJediDuelist]

I've rarely heard of the notion to rotate pipes, save but here and there. I have my favorite pipe and I smoke it multiple times a day, every day. Whenever it starts to get a bad taste, I clean it and the bad taste goes away. I enjoyed your video and I'm glad you made it.

[mikeselljm]

Good Lord! You should be arrested for pipe cruelty for what you did to that thing! Just kidding.

Do you think maybe the whole "pipe resting" thing started as a good marketing idea to sell more pipes? I.E. 7 day rotation sets, etc.

Along the lines of what you said, I'm sure some old schoolers wouldn't let their pipe leave their mouth from sunrise to sunset, so I'm thinking this might be one of the more subjective assertions people make about pipe smoking, not a hard and fast rule.

[joeypinter90405]

i could't agree more, think about the guys 100 years ago, working class cats who did't have a large collection.

[1791matty]

hi im matthew so how can i stop my pipe from crackin  inside pls