New Pipe Smoker With A Question? Ask an Old Fart

[Mister Moo]

Originally Posted by Cornrow_Wallis

... just curious if everyone found getting started a little frustrating. I'm not planning on giving it up.

Some do and so do (less so). Pipes require a little sensitivity to the physics of what is going on (compression, expansion, condensation) and the learned coordination of things you must do (fill, rub out, tamp, light, char, relight, swab with pipecleaner mid-smoke, relight, poke, pick, tamp some more, relight) to bring it all together into the good, easy experience.

It is a little busy at first but, in the end, the rewards out exceed the efforts in. Usually.