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Strawberry smokes sweet at the first ten bowls after smokes exactly like briar.
On my island there are thousands of that erica plants and they grow to the same places with briar that's why they are so similar I believe.
Personally I like the sweet wood aroma a lot

It's normal at the beginning not to be symmetrical, you find your way with practice.
Very good first pipe,I'm not an expert but you have it,just do it

Very nice and interesting first pipe
It looks like my 50nth

Thank you Billy!
Some more projects on the bench. ..All Rustic Olive pipes

You can do everything with the Olive wood..... :D I smoke almost only olive pipes and I made a lot of them. They are perfect smokers and does not need so much time to rest like briar. I grow up with that Holly tree Of course the have also some sensetivities ,if you now them is a perfect material for...

Thank you so much my friend :D Olive is a very coblicated wood...But is a great material and a very good smoker. After 10 smokes loose this beautiful taste and smoke simular to briar. I carved and smoke over 100 of them ,that's why I prefer to carve them thick walled and use a ring . I'm sorry for m...

It is a little difficult to post outside Greece right now my friend.
For USA is about 40 euros per kilo with simply shiping...nothing works in my country
I already lost some parcels I send to some friends
If you ever come to Rhodes or everybody else I give ouzo and olive

I've never seen olive wood stained before. Or rusticated, for that matter. If you're looking for the next step, the buttons on especially the first pipe could be a lot more comfortable. You've got a bulging bite zone. If you flatten out the bite zone with a smaller radius near the sides, you'll hav...

A very old Olive and strawberry wood burl cutting for pipes
The grain of this olive is like a picture
It's very impressive who light the strawberry wood is....and who hard...
It's also smells sweet

....some more..The most I finished just with beeswax -Rhodian Olive oil cream

Olives and some briar pipes.
After a lot of experiments I learned how olive reacts ,i cut them,dry them ,cure them etc...
I smoke almost only this pipes and I enjoy carve this wood.

Magnifisent!!

The "Legend " is made from wild and normal olive wood.
The mouthpiece is corian.

The "Grand Masters"pipe.

The Armor IV...

For what it's worth i think that while i like coatings for the resilience, much of the pleasure of olive wood is in the unique smoking experience. A coating would lose that. You are right Sir but i think olive need a coating more than briar. Ecsept the costumer nows how to take care of the olive .A...

I have made and smoked a lot of olive wood pipes. I believe is better to coat them and if posible to make them with fat walls. :D At the beginning I burnt out and broke couple of them. Also is very important the way you drill because is very easy to brake if you go wrong . With respect and the knowl...

Charl wrote:It's a beautiful piece of olive, for sure!

Thank you Sir!

Welcome !!