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Oh good! I'll rest easy knowing that I my pipe only slightly increases my already high chances of getting cancer. ; )

In all seriousness, I am not super concerned, as I am not planning on becoming a regular smoker.

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I just finished my first pipe today. I was going for, well, something. I didn't have any final shape in mind, and a poker style bowl seemed like the easiest shape to make it. The bowel is oak, and the stem is a china berry stick that I hollowed out with a bit of hot wire. The total work time was abo...

Thanks for the tip. Is there a specific material that is easier to carve by hand? Before I had done any research, I had wanted to make an olive wood pipe. If I am not totally concerned with longevity of my pipe (I am not planning on making smoking a regular habit) what would be the softest/easiest t...

Hey, now I feel dumb, but after another half hour of looking, I found two examples of the pipe I was looking for.

I am working on my first pipe, which is looking like it is going to be something like a poker with a short wooden stem. The entire thing is raw oak from the firewood pile in my back yard. The piece I am working with is a cylinder about 2.25" tall by 1.75" across (sorry, no pics yet). I thi...

Real name: Eli Brayden Location: Central Texas I am just getting into pipe making after a trip to Europe, during which one of my friends bought his first pipe for about $150. I, being fresh out of cash by that point in the trip, decided that I would do just fine making my own pipe, despite having ab...