Pictures of Your Home Made Pipes

[Steve2md]

As the title says, this is a spot to put the pics of your home made pipes. Let's see them!!
This one is a briar that I carved with a pocket knife. The stem is Honduran rosewood with a little band of purple heart in the middle. I turned the stem from pen blanks on my lathe. It's my first "professional" looking pipe


I don't remember what this little guy is made from, my cousin carved it with a utility knife. (I'm pretty sure it wasn't intended for tobacco......)

 

[Michibacy]

I only wish I had time to actually make a pipe...that one your cousin made kinda looks like a gourd. Homemade calabash perhaps?

 

[Chicken]

you did a good job on the top one,

im sure a lathe would be helpfull in knocking some of the wood out, to get to the basic design,?

 

[Steve2md]

lathe is the way to go

 

[Chicken]

steve if your intrested in making another, one

thiers a tree next door, that has these,

'' briors'' all over it,

i could get pic's and send you a raw one,

if you wanna do some more carving,

would you like to see pic's of what im talking about,?

 

[Steve2md]

Sure, shoot the pics on over. the briar used normally for pipes is:

Erica arborea, the tree heath, is a shrub or small evergreen tree found mostly in the macchia-matorral-maquis shrublands, dry evergreen scrublands, surrounding the Mediterranean Basin and west to Portugal and the Canary and Madeira Islands.

There are disjunct areas in Africa including the Ethiopian Highlands, the mountains of Ruwenzori and the Cameroon mountains.

Description

Erica arborea has a typical height of 1-4m (3-12 ft.), with some specimens reaching 7m (21 ft.). The numerous small flowers are white. The tree heath prefers acid soil.

The wood, known as briar root or French bruyère, is an extremely hard and heat-resistant wood used for making smoking pipes and knife handles.

Other tall growing heaths, including the Portugal Heath (Erica lusitanica) may also sometimes be called tree heath.

Usually it's the root bundle, or "burl" that's preferred.

as long as the tree is non toxic and hard wood, it should make a decent pipe

 

[BarG]

As the title says, this is a spot to put the pics of your home made pipes. Let's see them!!
This one is a briar that I carved with a pocket knife. The stem is Honduran rosewood with a little band of purple heart in the middle. I turned the stem from pen blanks on my lathe. It's my first "professional" looking pipe
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I don't remember what this little guy is made from, my cousin carved it with a utility knife. (I'm pretty sure it wasn't intended for tobacco......)
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That hand carved briar pipe is fine lookin. I like the grain on the bowl.

 

[Steve2md]

yeah, I scored on the block of wood I carved it from

 

[Chicken]

this is a big-ass oak tree,

and these '' briors'' are huge '' canecerous'' spots,

some bigger than a soft ball.

who knows, i may cut 2 of them , one for me, and try my luck at making a home-made peace pipe,,,lol

 

[Steve2md]

Go for it, they'll be burly and hard. The pipe will need to be broken in very well to stave off the sour flavor of the oak, but I say do it. You'll need to dry it very well (hmm, toss it in the kiln for a few weeks....) then dig in!

You want the wood to dry SLOW to prevent "checking" (cracks from drying too rapidly)

 

[BarG]

this is a big-ass oak tree,

and these '' briors'' are huge '' canecerous'' spots,

some bigger than a soft ball.

who knows, i may cut 2 of them , one for me, and try my luck at making a home-made peace pipe,,,lol

Chicken, I think your referring to BURLS. They can get huge and are prized for all types of woodworking. I harvest them whenever I can, the bigger the better. Sometimes a new branch will curl back in on itself and keep growing inside creating all the swirls and unique patterns in the grain.

 

[Boboro]

Any body ever tryed to make a pipe out of a bacca stump?

 

[Jitterbugdude]

Boboro, I tried using the stalk as a stem but it ended up being way to soft. I might try the root stump for the novelty of it.

 

[SmokesAhoy]

The thought did pass my mind. Maybe a nice stump piece with meer insert.

 

[Boboro]

I ant no pipe smoker. I got one of them small water pipes like pot smokers use but I ca'nt get the hang of it. Just chokes the hell out of me.

 

[Jitterbugdude]

I ant no pipe smoker. I got one of them small water pipes like pot smokers use but I ca'nt get the hang of it. Just chokes the hell out of me.

Stop inhaling...

 

[Chicken]

im still waiting on some more pic's,???

 

[Boboro]

Stop inhaling...

Ant that the point of smoke 'n

 

[Briar Boy]

Here be one of mine, carved it with a pocket knife from a stick in the backyard

 

[deluxestogie]

That's some impressively precise whittling!

Bob