New Pipe Smoker With A Question? Ask an Old Fart

[DaBear]

Originally Posted by kydsid

Well that's great advice but it begets another question. What do you mean by "how much I rub them out"?

Flake tobaccos are whole leaves stacked on top of eachother and pressed then cut into thin slices, these slices can either be folded and stuffed into your pipe or rubbed out and broken apart and then packed into your pipe. When you rub out a flake/coin you can leave it fairly rough in what would be called a broken flake(ie large chunks still in a flake) with a light rubbing out or you can give them a full rubbing out which will leave it as almost a ribbon cut.