Cigar smoker needs advice about recently acquired pipes.

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Briar is a type of wood, and while smoking the combustion of the tobacco releases moisture. This brings us to the need to rest your pipes 3-7 days after smoking them so that the briar can release that moisture.

But if you've dedicated a pipe to a specific tobacco genre, the next pipe in line to be smoked may not be what you want to smoke at that time—not a good thing! Thus I would say that you need a minimum of 12 pipes to allow you to smoke what you want to smoke on any given occasion.

If you do a Google search on "inexpensive" or "cheap" pipes, you'll find good smokers for ~$25.00. The major estate pipe vendors, such as smokingpipes.com, don't carry them. Don't be afraid to buy estates; as long as they aren't defective, when you buy estate, you've doubled your money.