Pipe in the possibles bag

[Dillon W.]

If this is in the wrong board please feel free to move it. Shoot, clay pipes may be considered an accoutrement?

Y’all boys that smoke a clay pipe, how do you carry one without it getting broken? I had a little tin of Virginia tobacco and a clay pipe I toted around this past deer season in my possibles bag but it did get broken. Do y’all keep yours in something particular in the bag?

 

[PathfinderNC]

I tucked it in my Tricorn

 

[GO OutDoors]

Yep tucked in the hat band with bowl facing down.

 

[tenngun]

Tricorn, or any hat. We see them stuck in hats in Miller paintings
A gage da’amore, a neck bag was worn with the pipe stuck in it.
A wood, tin or rawhide box.
Reed stems became popular after about 1820.
Many pipes were very short, too short for me to smoke comfortably was easier to carry.
I suspect but can not document some wood pipes were carried and used on the frontier.
A box of pipes in your kit. Cheap back then could be replaced often as needed.
Several Rendezvous sites have been excavated and broken pipes was common find

 

[Dillon W.]

That’s good information, it never dawned on me to put it in my hat band. I guess I never noticed in the paintings

 

[tenngun]

 

[GO OutDoors]

When I am out in the woods hunting I just use cut twig as a tamper. Just one less thing to carry.

 

[Cruzatte]

If this is in the wrong board please feel free to move it. Shoot, clay pipes may be considered an accoutrement?

Y’all boys that smoke a clay pipe, how do you carry one without it getting broken? I had a little tin of Virginia tobacco and a clay pipe I toted around this past deer season in my possibles bag but it did get broken. Do y’all keep yours in something particular in the bag?

My shot pouch is just for fusil related items, balls, wads, priming horn, powder/shot measure, an extra flint, and maintenance tools. Pipe, & tobacco, flint & steel, rations, that sort of stuff goes in the other bag.

 

[toot]

in the flopped over part of my voyager wool cap that hangs over to the side, also tobacco with it.

 

[GO OutDoors]

What do you all use to store your tobacco in?

 

[Dillon W.]

I bought some round tins from specialtybottle.com. Some are the size of musket cap tins and some are the size of Skoal can. I just grab on and fill it with whatever tobacco I want to smoke that day or weekend and get after it

 

[tenngun]

What do you all use to store your tobacco in?

For me a small deer skin bag, one of my first brain tan skins. Photo of my fire kits it’s the small bag on the top kit to the right

 

[Cruzatte]

What do you all use to store your tobacco in?

I used to use a leather roll up pouch, but the tobacco would dry out before the week end ended. Some one gave me a horn container with a cork lined walnut lid that holds about three pipe bowls worth. Sometimes I carry that in a waistcoat pocket.

Nowadays I just keep it in its original tin, or if I'm not bothering to dress up, a plastic zip lock baggie will do.

 

[Red Owl]

My problem as well. I went with a reed pipe but the clay were more common- I've never figured out how to keep a clay pipe from breaking.

 

[Cruzatte]

My problem as well. I went with a reed pipe but the clay were more common- I've never figured out how to keep a clay pipe from breaking.

Oh, that's an easy fix. Buy two. Or three if you're really clumsy like me.

 

[Loyalist Dave]

I had a little tin of Virginia tobacco and a clay pipe I toted around this past deer season in my possibles bag but it did get broken. Do y’all keep yours in something particular in the bag?

Well if it's not in the hat, it's probably got a broken stem, so..., I fashion a replacement stem from something like river cane, and put the clay bowl with some leftover stem still attached upon that, and continue to smoke it. This does, however, often resemble a 19th century clay bowl/reed stem pipe...,
So...,

Another option is to get a small corncob pipe...., saw off the commercial stem but leave the portion inside the pipe in place. Then I use the "awl" on a Swiss Army knife to open up the hole in the remaining stem portion, and use a plain piece of river cane as a stem. Doesn't look like what we normally expect as a corn-cob pipe, but I found by looking at actual cobs left over from dent corn, that the modern corncobs are HUGE compared to what folks would've had access to in the 18th century. So the bowl holds what a small clay pipe would hold, and the stem is long, but IF you had fashioned such a pipe those would likely have been the dimensions. Disassembles as does the adapted broken clay pipe above. Burns through after a bit, but I buy several of the small corncob pipes each time I resupply, and have them ready to go.

LD

 

[George]

I no longer smoke, but when I did I really enjoyed a pipe around the campfire in the evenings. I used a corncob pipe I made for a while, first with a Kentucky cane stem and then with a stem from an elderberry bush. FYI, that worked very well, elderberry stems have a soft pith which is easily removed with a wire, and are a good size.

If historical accuracy is important, corncob pipes are apparently a later 19th-century innovation.

My main pipe was a reed stemmed clay pipe, stem about 9". I carried it for several years, never had a problem with breakage. I usually carried it in the bottom of my haversack protected by other soft stuff in there. My shot pouch is strictly for gun related items.

I like small gourds containers for many things, so I carried my tobacco in one. Tightly corked, it kept tobacco fresh quite a while.

Spence

 

[ADK Bigfoot]

Carried in my tricorn hat band. Pretty secure, although I have broken two when I bumped my hat while bent over. (They are like life; they ain't no how permanent.) I put a pipe cleaner through the broken stem pieces, glued the ends together, and put it back in my hat. I don't smoke it anyway.

ADK Bigfoot

 

[duca]

Hey guys, where you getting your clay pipes from? I usually go with a corncob pipe myself. Would like to try a clay.

Anthony

 

[tenngun]

Townsend’s, crazy crow, Turkey Foot Traders, log cabin sport shop, Avalon Forge, Amazon,
Some things to look for.
Decoration. Most pipes were plain with just a horn on the bottom. However faces, skull and crossbones, flur-de-lyse were common but egg in bird claw were very common.
Sixteenth and seventeenth century very small bowls. Eighteenth century got bigger
Church warden long pipes were common in personal homes as well as taverns when you smoke one you can tell your doc you stay away from smoking.
Workers often had very small bowls that took about ten minutes to smoke. Often had short stems. Such allowed a worker to have a smoke break.