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    Stem Materials

    I'm curious as to what all woods make good stems. I carved the chamber section from Irish bog oak. I would like to keep the pipe all wood. I live in Texas, so I would like to use wood from around me like pecan, texas ash, post oak, live oak, maybe texas cedar (but it is very pitchy), persimmon...
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    Irish bog oak

    I am not going to be able to carve my Morta into a wurm head the way I wanted. The block just isn't quite big enough. It needs to be an inch longer. So I am just going to do a very large self standing full bend church warden. I am ordering a very large briar from Virginia freehand along with...
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    When your finger doesnot fit in a pipe

    02 gmc Sierra. I hate this truck, it tries to kill me everytime I work on it. It has crushed me 3 times.
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    When your finger doesnot fit in a pipe

    @AroEnglish
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    When your finger doesnot fit in a pipe

    @OzPiper yeah that is why I've been looking in person. I can try to put my finger in there to make sure before I buy it. Having a ton trouble finding a place like that.
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    When your finger doesnot fit in a pipe

    @bullet08 yeah a tamper is the tool I'm referring to. I always pack too tight with them. My question is where do I find pipes with larger bowls? The shop I go to in Arlington Texas most of their pipes have the same size bowl as the one I have. They have some church wardens with larger bowls...
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    When your finger doesnot fit in a pipe

    Ok I know sounds weird but I know I'm not the only one. I'm a "builder". I build stuff. Yeah I know that is weird too. I mean I build houses, cars, motorcycles, carve stuff, sew clothes, pretty much anything working with my hands. Needless to say I have huge hands from this. My pointer finger is...
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    Irish bog oak

    @chasi love the one on your left.
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    Irish bog oak

    I can hold this pipe like this for quite some time with just my lips. More bend I could hold it indefinitely in this manor.
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    Irish bog oak

    I lost mine to poor diet for about twenty years. I can bite down on the stem to my 3/4 bend biar currently have for about five minutes, but then I just let it rest on my jaw and hold it with my lips. This bog oak block is huge and quite heavy, so I don't know that technique will work. If I get...
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    Irish bog oak

    I have a very nice elk tine about 10 inches long. I found how to bend it, but my question is will it make a good stem for my pipe. I'm wanting it to end up a churchhill profile. Full bend and long stem. Ideally long enough to rest on my chest while driving so I don't have to hold onto it, and I...
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    Irish bog oak

    Been looking in the woods for a texas ash sapling to make my stem, but I'm also thinking I'd like a Buffalo stem. Of course there is the option to inlay Buffalo into ash...
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    Irish bog oak

    @PaulRVAi most definitely will post pics when I am finished.
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    Irish bog oak

    @chasthank you that is super helpful. I will be ordering bits from them cause yeah I can make them myself, but just lighting the coal costs more than $13.50. Still probably gonna make myself some carving knives cause if this works out this likely will not be my last pipe. This may become what I...
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    Irish bog oak

    I'm wanting to carve it into a wurm (dragon that the front legs are wings, like Smaug from the hobbit movies) head. Of course you have to let the wood tell you what it wants to be also. So I just have to wait to get it in my hands. The stuff is supposedly near impossible to burn, so burning in...
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