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The lighter is an integral part of your pipe experience.  It is best to use matches or a butane non torch lighter for your smoke.  Zippo makes a pipe specific lighter with a hole cut in the windscreen.
The lighter is an integral part of your pipe experience.  It is best to use matches or a butane non torch lighter for your smoke.  Zippo makes a pipe specific lighter with a hole cut in the windscreen.


The other major US non-butane lighter is the Nimrod Pipe Lighter (or it's reproduction, the Sportsman Plug-Lite). Two versions were created. One was unique in that it looked like a nut and bolt, and was lit by holding a thumb on the spark wheel, and pulling apart the lighter. FG Ward also created a second lighter model that resembled the current Zippo pipe lighter.
The three other major US non-butane lighter were the Nimrod Pipe Lighter, the Nimrod Commander, and the Beattie Jet Lighter.  
 
Two Nimrod models were eventually manufactured. The Pipe Lighter model was unique in that it looked like a nut and bolt, and was lit by holding a thumb on the spark wheel, and pulling apart the lighter. A second model was the Commander (or Admiral), which resembled the current Zippo pipe lighter.


== Pipe Racks, rests, and stands ==
== Pipe Racks, rests, and stands ==
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