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Antler Pipe
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I used to smoke a pipe daily, have now toned down to occasionally during small game season. Just feels "right" to sit on a stump and smoke a pipe while watching the woods.
Anyway, having drilled out a bunch of antler for projects I can imagine a hot pipe smoker, or someone using older, dried out tobacco would get a dose of "burnt hair" taste from an antler pipe. Those who are slower, cool pipe smokers with fresh, moist tobacco and who keep the burn in the center and don't honk away at it like a smelting furnace might get away with an antler pipe. Pack it tight and use a vent pick to make a draft channel, like with the corn-cobb pipes (which, by the way, are sweet smoking pipes).
A good old, cheap clay bowl with reed stem gives a darned good smoke and is as authentic as needs be. I find the all-clay pipes to be too rough on my teeth, so that I have to hold the thing continually. Still OK when you're just watching the world go by. (Lit with a doubled over piece of char-cloth and a flint & steel set, of course).
Anyway, having drilled out a bunch of antler for projects I can imagine a hot pipe smoker, or someone using older, dried out tobacco would get a dose of "burnt hair" taste from an antler pipe. Those who are slower, cool pipe smokers with fresh, moist tobacco and who keep the burn in the center and don't honk away at it like a smelting furnace might get away with an antler pipe. Pack it tight and use a vent pick to make a draft channel, like with the corn-cobb pipes (which, by the way, are sweet smoking pipes).
A good old, cheap clay bowl with reed stem gives a darned good smoke and is as authentic as needs be. I find the all-clay pipes to be too rough on my teeth, so that I have to hold the thing continually. Still OK when you're just watching the world go by. (Lit with a doubled over piece of char-cloth and a flint & steel set, of course).
that vent pick idea is a good one. I will have to try it. As far as the teeth :shocking:they don't hurt the ole falsies at all :crackup:I was just out on a woods walk shoot yesterday and after the shoot I done the same thing, sat with my buddies in the woods shot the crap and smoked a good bowl of half and half in my clay pipe. Man, it doesn't get any better than that, and then you have to go back to work :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry:
