Originally Posted By Bophades45:
I’m a longtime cigar smoker who is interested in trying out pipe smoking. When it comes to cigars, I prefer broadleaf or maduro, but I can appreciate every cigar if it’s quality. Not a fan of anything flavored at all. Nicaraguan cigars are usually my go to.
I don’t know anything about smoking pipes.
What makes a pipe good? What blends would appeal to a cigar smoker?
I’m out of my element and don’t know anyone who smokes a pipe. So, any advice would be appreciated.
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To me a good pipe draws easily, and is comfortable in your hand OR hangs easily in your mouth, has a stem short enough for convenience or long enough to cool the smoke and enhance flavor if handheld like a churchwarden.
Cigar guys would probably enjoy English blends that use some wrapper or filler tobaccos, and tend to be heavy on the nicotine. Samuel Gawith tobaccos often fit the bill IMHO, but just search descriptions from online vendors for blends that use cigar filler or wrapper tobaccos. That said, the pipe tobacco world is very broad.
Missouri Meerschaums are a great starter pipe. Use matches, zippo, whatever. Then just learn to pace your smoke, how to pack the bowl and try the eighty-seven bajillion different pipe tobaccos.
Worst case, you can shove you cigar butt into a properly sized pipe to hobo smoke the last bit of it.
I did that with a Montecristo awhile back after seeing the cigar store owner do it.