Tobacco Pipes

[burch]

Hope i`m in the right forum

Anyhow, i`m looking into making myself a tobacco pipe. I`m not too crazy about clay pipes since they`ll get a good chance to break. So, to all you folks making your own pipes lend me some insight toward materials and how to instructions. Some pics would be really cool hotoSmile:

burch :thumbsup:

 

[David W.]

Cherry makes good pipe bowl material.

 

[ohio ramrod]

I make mine from antler. You have to "char seal" them or else they will taste like burning horn (not good)

 

[rabjr]

Theres been several past threads on home made corn cob pipes. I've collected cobs and reeds from a few members and made usable pipes. :thumbsup:

 

[Stumpkiller]

I like the clay bowl with a reed stem. Haven't broken one yet.

 

[nc_cooter]

:thumbsup:
Same here,clay bowl with reed stem.
Mike

 

[Loyalist Dave]

Go to the local pipe tobacco store, and buy one of the small corncob pipes. The really small ones without a treated bowl and the short stem. They go for a few dollars. Then cut off the wooden stem flush with the bowl. Next, take the leather tool on a Swiss Army knife, or some other very thin bladed tool, and auger out the little hole in the remaining wooden plug left over when you cut off the stem. Enlarge this slowly until a reed will fit snug..., now you have a corncob pipe. Use the smallest cobs as the larger ones are from hybrid ears of corn, and the smaller ones are probably what you'd a had way back then.

Start with one of these Unvarnished Mini Corncob Pipes.

LD

 

[PA.1740]

I also like the clay bowl with reed stem.
At night around the fire :thumbsup:
Have Fun
Phil

 

[codymobley]

I've made mine and several for friends from the roots of a black walnut tree.

I carved it with a razor blade and sealed it with bee's wax. It smokes pretty good, no aftertaste, etc.

The graphic I carved into the face of the pipe is the bloody arm of the 1835 Dimmit Flag of Texas.

The extension I cut from I beleive it was an elm tree and the bite is whitetail antler.

 

[Rifleman1776]

Pipe making is a world wide hobby/avocation.
Hit the internet, you will find tons of information and resources.

 

[David W.]

Another wood to try if you can find it is olive wood.

 

[burch]

What about Walnut ? I have some pieces of old rifle stock material. It has some nice figure.

 

[David W.]

I'm not too sure about walnut. The only two woods I know that work, besides briar that is, is cherry or olive.

 

[codymobley]

The pipe I posted photos of is walnut. It smokes fine and doesn't get hot.

 

[Goldhunter]

Pipe stone. Easy to do with simple woodworking tools (dedicated for stone after first use :wink: ).

soapstone works also, but is more fragile.

 

[Jim Blair]

I'm not too sure about walnut. The only two woods I know that work, besides briar that is, is cherry or olive.

Picked up a new pipe,made in Poland,from Pear tree root.Looks just like a briar root pipe.

 

[freekforge]

I dont smoke at all but made a few just for fun out of corncob and reed dont know if they would smoke good but they looked good

 

[Linc]

I made a pipe years ago from a small block of mahogany. I am sure most any hardwood would work just fine.
I have a couple of Rendezvous coming up and been thinking of taking a pipe to smoke whilst sitting around the campfire in the evening. Guess I will have to search around to find that pipe and get some tobaccy. :thumbsup:

 

[Rev_William]

Pretty much any wood can be carved into a pipe but keep in mind some may release toxic chemicals as the heat is applied. Walnut from what I hear is toxic if ingested so probably is if burned and inhaled. I would stick with fruit wood or briar just my 2 cents

 

[David W.]

Pretty much any wood can be carved into a pipe but keep in mind some may release toxic chemicals as the heat is applied. Walnut from what I hear is toxic if ingested so probably is if burned and inhaled. I would stick with fruit wood or briar just my 2 cents

That could be why cherry is often used. Olive is supposed to have a taste until they are broken in.