Quote Originally Posted by mooster View Post
I couldn't help thinking about this thread lately. For the last week or so, I seem to have lost my touch. I load a bowl, and it's either too tight and I have to reload, or it's like drawing on air and I can't get the bowl started. I push a pipe cleaner in to dry out the pipe or knock down "the nastys" and it doesn't stop at the bottom of the bowl but tries to push the baccy out of the bowl. I don't know why I'm struggling all of a sudden after five years of pipe smoking, and I'm sure it will pass, but it is most frustrating to be going through this.
Hi Mark,

Are you using your paws again?

I had a bowl of supernatural tobacco two weeks ago and now I can't taste sweetness in my Virginias and only latakia bombs seem to have flavor. I feel your pain, been there, had that and didn't like it either.

May seem like an odd suggestion but perhaps giving a couple of pipes a good ream n' clean without smoking. Get them good and ready and they try again. May sound odd but when i do this the bowl suddenly seems wider and easier to pack. Either way, eventually this will pass and I hope soon.

Pete