Square Deal (Poker Style)

[cbates55]

Hello all, here's a new pipe I'm working on that I'm calling Square Deal in a Poker style. The bowl is made from oak and the shank is from a MM cob pipe. I'm still thinking about how I want to finish the bowl. Thinking about rusticating it, any ideas? The chamber is 3/4" x 1 3/8"...

 

[pagan]

Square Deal huh? how about a Spade, Club and Hart caved on the sides tapestry style

 

[addamsruspipe]

You could make the spade, club and hart smooth and rusticate around them to give them contrast. Or do the reverse and make the symbols rusticated and the rest smooth.

 

[cbates55]

It just needs some wax and a good buffing now. Maybe I will add a Spade, Club and Hart on it before I do that. It smokes really nice as it is right now.

 

[aldecaker]

Isn't a hart a kind of deer? I like that pipe, though. How does oak smoke? Does it add any kind of taste to the tobacco?

 

[cbates55]

Isn't a hart a kind of deer? I like that pipe, though. How does oak smoke? Does it add any kind of taste to the tobacco?

HAHAHA, your right, Hart is a type of of red deer.... it should of been spelled Heart.
There is a bit of a taste added, but that seems to be going away after a couple bowl fulls of tobacco. It isn't unpleasant by any means, but it might turn off some at first until it gets broken in. So far I'm enjoying this pipe and it smokes well.