All Cherrywood pipe (stem too)
Posted: Tue Nov 03, 2015 10:43 pm
I recently started making pipes out of cherrywood as an experiment that turned into a consuming hobby. Cherrywood was readily available to me and felt safer to start working on than briar. I also decided to make the stem cherry as well w/o a mouthpiece. Although I have no real ambition of making and selling these pipes to any large degree I do hope to make them as gifts and I'm curious what others' experience is with cherrywood as a medium vs briar as well as the longevity of the all wood stem/mouthpiece. I imagine someone who really likes to chew their stem could work their way through the wooden mouthpiece in a couple sittings, but I'm not sure. I'm currently smoking out of one and really enjoy it, not too hot in the hand and their seems to be a nice cake building in the bowl which is appearing pretty durable, I don't foresee burning through the bowl anytime soon. However I only smoke about once a week which I know isn't very much by some peoples standards. I posted on this subject (kinda) in another thread but thought this specific topic belonged in alternate materials.
Anyone else have experience with Cherrywood as medium? Thoughts on the all wood stem/mouthpiece?
Thanks
Justin
Anyone else have experience with Cherrywood as medium? Thoughts on the all wood stem/mouthpiece?
Thanks
Justin