Thanks for all of the compliments, gents. Bradley is a good friend and has been nothing but an encouragement in my pipe making endeavors and he even went as far as sending me one of my white whales, a Nording Bear. So I decided to make him this pipe. I will post up some other photos of it soon if anyone is interested. The stem is a turquoise cumberland and I stained the burl black sanding it down so as to leave the low areas black. Bradley worked for Exxon for a number of years so I was going for an oily looking accent. Anyway, it is always fun to make a pipe for someone and try to tailor it specifically to that person. This pipe would be my old cajun interpretation.