awesome pipe project

took me five and a half hours to whittle this wood pipe
isnt it awesome
its pine out of my neighbor wood pile

 

with a hint of pinecone mmmm..that's pretty cool

 

i probbly gonna use my woodburner to put designs on the outside

 

Not bad at all. It looks pretty cool. Have any other angle pics?

 

good job.

If i had the talent, I would carve a hand and an arm where you put the grass in the hand and smoke from the end of the arm...the fingers would be quite hard to do tho.

 

haha thats an awesome idea!! a hand pipe! omg your a genious!

 

I always thought the wood would burn if it asn't like a hard oak or something. Good job, though.

 

Nice work. It looks like the bowl and, presumably the stem hole, were made with a drill. What diameter bits did you use?

 

nice job man, i love wood pipes


remember to put a screen on tha thing.

 

Yeah u should have definitly used a hardwood because its less likely to burn.

 

If I were you, I would get some leaf and smoke a few bowls of that before using bud. The leaf is less dense and burns at a lower temp. That allows resin and ash to build up a little before the heat that will convert the raw wood into charcoal.

Any broken-in wood pipe has a ring of charcoal (fire hardened wood) around the bowl. That, plus the poor air flow, keeps the pipe from bursting into flame.

One worry of mine would be that the stem hole will absorb a lot of resin and will be realy nasty.

Wood pipes rock, but the next time you should go through the scrap bin a local (I said LOCAL not chain) lumber store and buy a scrap of hardwood. Exotic hardwoods sometimes have toxins so it would be best to stick to food wooods like cherry, oak (acorns are eatable) and walnut. Poplar may be cheaper, but I'm not sure about their toxicisty.

By the way, have you noticed that, because of the length of the narrow drill bit, your pipe will fit almost perfectly in a normal perscription bottle?

 

i carved the bowl by hand

this wood repels the flame for some reason

 

actuily its bigger than it looks in the pic

 

Hand carved bowl!!! Awesome!!

 

sweet I like that alot... Looks like a good hitter