Soft flame or torch?

[dj1340]

Good for you, that is the best approach. I will only use a torch with my pipe if I have nothing else. I turn the flame down as far as it will go though.
Sometimes on a windy day that may be the only thing to use.
I have a Xikar pipe lighter that does pretty well in moderate winds. Wooden matches remind me of the old guys I would see in the pubs
in England. Sitting at a table having a beer and smoking their pipes. Usually farmers with their dogs sitting under the table and their tractors
parked in the parking lot. Life did seem simpler back then.

Cigars it's strictly torch. But hell I have used burning sticks from the campfire as well. Fire is fire.