Pipes Made From Antlers

Perique · Feb 21, 2013

Antlers. Also curious about ivory.
Anyone have any experience with this? I would assume that antlers (or ivory) being organic and semi-porous, might make an interesting pipe. Not sure how they would hold up under drilling or carving. I thought it might be something really unique and interesting.
Thoughts?

rhogg · Feb 21, 2013

Check out www.tomleedypipes.com . He mostly incorporates antler into the design; however he does have a few with bowls made from antler. Also he is a very friendly guy. If you email him he will tell you all about the smoking characteristics.

Perique · Feb 21, 2013

Thanks. I will definitely check that out.

pstlpkr · Feb 21, 2013

Someone said antlers are actually made of hair, and smell like burning hair when smoked.

I can't speak to the "hair" part of the quote above, but they definitely smell like burning hair.
I have two antler pipes that I purchased years ago.

I consider them decorative only.

Neither provide anything but a sickening smoke.

shaintiques · Feb 21, 2013

Yeah antler when hot smells disgusting, but accents should work. Ivory does not hold up well to heat and is prone to crack.

bigvan · Feb 21, 2013

Is this close? And it doesn't smell like burning hair. Now there's a sentence I never thought I'd have to write.

pstlpkr · Feb 21, 2013

I should have qualified my statement....
Antler shanks can look very cool... e.g. the photo above.

However; if the "bowl" is made of antler...

Stand-by to stand-by... :?
: puffy

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zonomo · Feb 21, 2013

I have a genuine Lakota Peace Pipe that has a deer antler bowl and a deer antler mouth piece. I also have a few deer antler tampers which I think are ultra cool.

acme · Feb 22, 2013

Antler is bone

Horn is hair/finger nails

Ivory is tooth
If you have ever worked any of it, you wouldn't want a bowl made of them if you smoke for taste.
anthony

wayneteipen · Feb 22, 2013

I'm with Anthony. Horn, antler, and ivory all smell pretty bad when turned. It's probably harmless to smoke from them but they would impart a horrid taste on the tobacco. I really like to use them as accents on my pipes but I'm always careful not to let them come in contact with the tobacco or airway.

zonomo · Feb 22, 2013

They do look very cool as accents. I also like bamboo accents - prob my favorite.

john218 · Feb 22, 2013

You can make a pipe bowl out of all kinds of material, but msot probably would smoke horribly. From what is being said here, it sounds like antler is one of those.
I'll stick with the three main tried and true materials; briar, meerschaum, corncob and some of the others like cherry, pear and clay.

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