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Very good.
Nice flowing lines. Good work

You're quite fortunate to find a piece of olivewood without significant cracks! Looks great!

flix wrote:You're quite fortunate to find a piece of olivewood without significant cracks! Looks great!

i have 5 pieces at home - it is a good supplier (Manno Briar) that knows how to prepare the wood....
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I will quote Abi Natur (Canaan Pipes) regarding curing of fresh olive wood pieces...

"Sorry guys i did not catch this topic since absent on a trip, but would gladly help out
with some of my practical knowledge on the theme 'curing olive wood'.
This describes the step with fresh olive wood ,harvesting semi-dry limbs that have been
drying already on a olive tree for some century is a different story of
harvesting and curing.
In the whole process you have to have in mind that the weather, the season of the year
and even the fazes of the moon ,they all play its part in the decision of the right moment
to go into the harvest on the right olive wood, because it is the quantity of water
and the sun that are the mother & father to all cracks.

1.Every crack in the wood has its cause in the first day of the harvest,so after you cut
a fresh limb from an olive tree it has to get out of the sun as soon as possible.
Bring the tree limb into a cooler place with some humidity(like a cellar).
2 .After the first step you have to free immediately the tree limb from its bark as cracks
appear from the outer rim reaching into the corona.
3.Let it rest for a few days in a cool place wrapped in a cloth lightly sprinkled
with some water.
4.The right observation of the the limb will tell you where the internal flow of the grain
suggest some possibility to crack or they are while growing intertwined in such a manner
that you have clean first quality .
5.Cut it and size down to blocks which are comfortable to shape a pipe from.
6.Storage them again in a cool but NOT humid place without sunshine and forget it
for 2 to 5 years yet checking on its curing process frequently.

There are also methods to cure the whole olive wood limbs without the bark in a
shorter time span but it involves huge quantities of olive oil...,
that again is another more expensive but also old fashioned way of curing.
Cooking, instant drying and similar practices are not the way olive wood is cured,
time is of the essence here so the wood develops its stability in the new structure
as a block and in the end as a pipe to come.

Best,
Abi"

hope this helps..
regards

Beautiful pipe.

thank you Wayne
glad you like it

Nice work Daniel! I like the lines. Also like your band work and extension. I need to get some olive wood, would love to work with it.

Hi tNd,
I really like the shape on this one. The band in the cove sets it off well.

Jim

thank You guys .. happy You like it

That is a very fine pipe you have made there!