My first hand made pipe
Posted by aboutpipes on February 16, 2008
Okay, so here it is a little story. That was about December, when I have had a bit of spare time, so I have been visiting my friends workshop. He’s an artist and got some handful tools. I was planing to make my first pipe! So I decided to have an relaxing day. Could you believe how hard work is to make a pipe. I have received briar and stem from Ryszard Kulpinski, Polish pipe maker.
And here is a “final” result 
I know, that is nothing special that pipe I made, but I have had a great fun and spend some relaxing and wonderful time doing it.
Now I know how hard is to make a pipe and got my full respect to all pipe makers for their efforts.
pooya said
It is a nice piece of art.
Can you please tell me what kind of wood is suitable for pipe which can tolerate the heat?
aboutpipes said
Thank you for your. Well, that was my first pipe I made, and looks at the moment might be the last one[well, maybe if in the future I got some more free time?]. I named it Gnomes Hat. Most of pipes are made of Briar wood (Erica arborea) [some info about Briar you will find here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Briar_wood ]
Bill Connelly said
Now be honest; do you smoke it, and how does it smoke? I’m always a little be suspicous of pipes which have thin walls around the bowl.
This may sound stupid, but I kinda like it in the early stages, the 4th and even the 6th photo down. When the stummel is bigger it matches with the strong curve on the stem.