Grab your fave Dr Grabow Pipes, the best smelling savory tobacco you might find, and 2 simple pipe accessories and lets begin our lesson. Find a comfortable spot you can relax and enjoy your smoke. It is important for you to remember that learning how to pack, light, and smoke your pipe is something you can learn to perfect. It isn’t going to occur the initial time you light it up regardless of how many pipe smoking guides you read. It is something you want experience with to improve, so take time and chill. As with anything in life, learn from your mistakes. Packing Your Pipe. It’s important to ensure your pipe is free of any prior ashes or condensation for a prior smoke. Run a pipe cleaner through the stem and then blow on the stem to ensure nothing is obstructing the air passage to the bowl. I might highly suggest you turn the bowl away from your face or you will finish up with a face full of dottle ( ashes and unburned tobacco ). Take away the approximate quantity of tobacco you’ll have to fill the bowl and place it on a tissue. Ensure the tobacco is free of any clumps and the moisture level of the tobacco isn’t to wet. If it is let it sit out for 2 mins while you take in the unpolluted air of the evening. Loosely fill the bowl with tobacco. At anytime while filling don’t press down on the tobacco with your thumb or fingers. Also don’t pinch the tobacco so forcibly that you create clumps which you lost in step two. Now with your handy interfere tool press the tobacco down till its springy. The bowl should probably be around half to three / four of the way full. Remember the tobacco should be springy not rock-hard. Do a test draw from the stem. Is there any resistance? If so dump out the tobacco or stir it up with your pick and begin again. Otherwise fill the bowl back up and tamp it down again. Take another test draw. Again there should be small or perhaps no resistance. If there is more resistance the respiring through a drinking straw, dump or stir the tobacco and start again. If the tobacco still isn’t even with the apex of the bowl add more tobacco and tap it down until it’s even with the top. Another test draw should yield only a little resistance. Lighting the pipe is simple. With the pipe between your lips, light your match and use it on the tobacco in a rounded motion. You’ll want to make intensely shallow puffs on the pipe. You can most likely see the tobacco swell up or untangle in the bowl. That’s utterly normal and the first purpose to the burning light. This expels any additional moisture from the tobacco and prepares the tobacco for the True Light. After the fake light the tobacco may not be at the same level – the height of the bowl. Use your meddle to gradually compress the tobacco back to the head of the bowl. Be highly careful, here is where many amateurs make their worst mistake. Relight the match and again apply it to the tobacco in a rounded motion. Again a collection of shallow puffs will be critical to re-ignite the flame. If done correctly the tobacco shouldn’t unscramble or puff up like it did in the false light. If you have done everything right you should be enjoying your first pipe smoking experience. Bask in it. Like it. You will eventually get into a rhythm. If the smoke entering your mouth is hot you are going to fast. Slow down and take long regular puffs. If your pipe goes out while between puffs don’t be disturbed. That is’s ordinary. Just relight.