Ep44 - How to pre-carbonize a briar pipe's smoking chamber with charcoal 

This is the best method. Thank you for going through this.

This video, combined with your video on the pipe mud go hand-in-hand. Thank you for both. Great work; we’ll done.

Thank you for this, I may have caught your previous video covering this and forgot. Thankful you provided a refresher at any rate. The details you provide help me decide to try to tackle my own pipe related projects. Looks like you have a gorgeous pipe awaiting you here soon. Thank you again and happy piping.

Great info. Thanks so much. I've still got a lot to learn. See you soon.

As always thanks for aharing this great advice love your videos be safe and be well

Thanks for the clarification on gurgling. I suffered gurgling pipes for years before I knew any better. Proper drilling with matching mortise and tenon should be pipe buying/smoking 101.

Great video.

I am a relatively new pipe smoker with only around 3 years of enjoying the hobby. I recently purchased 3 Savinelli 673ks, my favorite pipe and shape, and after smoking them only a few times on bare briar realized that I was smoking a bit to hot or somehow otherwise damaging the pipes; they were already beginning to show a few small char pits and fissures. After researching this topic, I cleaned the pipes and applied this bowl coating to them. I am amazed at the results of this coating! After the first smoke it was easy to see the cake already beginning to build, something I have always struggled to accomplish! Not only that, but the pipe remained cooler throughout the smokes also. I am cautious and obsessively check my pipes after each smoke now; pipes are not a cheap thing and I don't want to waste my investments. I have yet to see signs of damage and have been amazed at how well this bowl coating has improved my experience! I did notice an unusual taste for the first smoke, but haven't really noticed it since.

Peterson Pipes use Gum Arabic and Charcoal. Works well and the first smoke is smooth.

Thaks, for the this guidance,a must method for the estate pipes that were reamed,yet One may consider adding it to the brand pipes with naked bowls in order to avoid unexpected burns out to the chambers, been there more than once when I was from five minutes away from getting burned out a chamber mainly due to my cadence and poor smoking technics,Best Greets, Paul

Does anyone think a little diced onions and minced jalapeño peppers could benefit as well?

Thanks

Thanks.. any kind of hand moisturizing creams are good ?

Informative, kudos. Why cigar ash (as opposed to pipe ash) for the mud? I've seen yogurt and buttermilk referenced in addition to sour cream for coatings. Sour cream is superior because?

New piper here. I just picked up an estate pipe with a meerschaum liner. Is this something that should be done with meerschaum as well?

Hello. I would like to ask a question. I have a briar block that I was making a pipe years ago. It was one of my first experiments. I drilled the bowl (I do not have a lathe machine so I do everything in a press drill. When I drilled the shank I made a mistake, the drill bit went down too much so that put a hole in the other side of the bowl. A nearly 3 mm hole. I do not want to waist that briar and I was thinking to fill the hole with some putty; something inert material like chalk or clay ad than coat everything with a charcoal coat like you show in the videos, with sour cream or honey. What do you think about? Thank you.

I just coated two bowls today, but I used organic Greek yogurt. We shall see how it turns out.

I feel like you could substitute egg white for the sour cream, but I guess that would probably dry to hard for easy removal?

Hi mate! After applying the mixture of sour cream and activated charcoal in the bowl, when can smoke? Thank you for tips. Cheers from Bahia Brazil South America (SA). Right now is cold. Winter in SA.

I would have never guessed using organic sour cream! Again love what you do Brother!🍭🐓👶

you have so much tobacco.....it's insane.

Closest in my life I've come to a sincere "spit take", after he said his first ingredient was organic sour cream to coat a pipe bowl!

Good idea to use sour cream instead of chemicals. But -basically- no pre-coating is needed at all. Just start to build a natural coating by starting to smoke the uncoated pipe carefully…

Can one replace sour cream with butter?

Do you have an alternative to the sour cream? Maybe honey or something similar? Not sure I want to use a dairy product..

What about using unflavoured yogurt as a binding agent?

Thank you for addressing this, I was wondering if you would send me some tobacco? I am a new pipe smoker and I am trying to find the right blend to smoke

I always run hot water in the pipe after every smoke. So, can I apply this coating method for my new pipe?

if you want a really even coat, water down the paste until it's pourable, fill the bowl and let it drain through the bottom of the bowl.