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it's not a pretty pipe, and really i was gonna huck the wood in the trash, but i was telling a friend about a series of hard spots that i carved around, out of bordem, that ended up looking like an ear. i was trying to cut it off with my tiny handsaw, when he said he wanted the thing turned into a pipe. he said he wanted it odd, so that it is. i left it rough looking and did not try to pretty it up much. there's miles of critique to be had, but go easy on me, i have much to learn and it was made using only a battery powered dremel and i borrowed a power drill for the bowl. i want to say the wood is juniper, which is not ideal for a pipe, but if you can make one out of corn... its finished in beeswax. i wouldnt use beeswax much, but it smells nice and gives it a neat velvety sheen. given its low melting point, it does not offer the same protection of carnuba. but that being said, it works and it was available to me
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as a foot note i made my first pipe out of this same chunk of wood, and its owner loves it and smokes it all the time, and so far, no ill has befallen the juniper.
BUT! on to things that matter : it smokes great, feels good in the hand, and everyone who has actually used/seen it in person, really likes it, though i hated it for a couple weeks, until i got around to breaking it in for him, and i came to cherish it. but like many things in life, it has to go away, lol. a deal is a deal. enjoy my hideous "van gogh" pipe, as i have named it.