So, I went to ALL the trouble of finding a pipe for this challenge, so I'm going to post it! I know this may have been doomed from the get go, but I found a really funny pipe and couldn't resist it. Truly an Artisanal pipe! Stamped artistically on the bottom (with a pencil) Made 7-24-60 by Jeff. An almost 60 year old pipe, this beauty stands at 10 and half inches tall, well at least when I was done with it. Yes it is a well pipe as there is a hollow spot under the stem hole of about 3/8 of an inch. I couldn't use the existing bowl at the top because it was way off center and the pipe is made out of pine. (you could still smell the pitch) So I had to sacrifice a small clay pipe to get a small enough bowl to fit in the enlarged bowl I carved out. Sanded and polished it up and stained the clay black on top, loaded it with GH Brown Flake Unscented and it actually worked. Now I can smoke a clay pipe without burning my fingers, and the long trip for the smoke to travel helped cool it some by being absorbed by so much raw wood. A bit of a PITA to light it as the bowl is above eye level, but hey, it's not like I'm going to ruin the rim of the bowl. :mrgreen:
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