Howdy!
Seeing as I'm new to the forum I figured I would make a post to start participating. This is a Bois D'arc pipe I made the other day out of a piece of wood me and my dad decided was not straight enough for a longbow when I was a kid. The center of the wood was big enough that I thought I could make a bowl out of it, so I did! The stem is just an Oak dowel with a hole in it. I shaped outside of the bowl with a combination of using the oscillating spindle sander and my hands. The bowl Was made with a large drill bit, and bored further with a Dremel. I made a simple chamber under the bowl with a 10mm drill bit, then a 3/8 bit for the draw hole connecting the two. I finished the outside of the pipe with coconut oil, and treated the bowl with and activated charcoal paste made with water. It's a tad warm to the ouch after an hour or so of smoking but it hasn't cracked yet. I'm possibly going to find a good Churchwarden stem for it...My tools needs sharpening...LOL.
My main reason for making aside from my newbly-woobly interest in Pipe Smoking, was to replace the crappy 3 dollar corncob I bought from the tobacco shop. Anyways, greetings from Texas, I'm glad to be here. I'm currently smoking Captain Black out of the thing and it's wonderful.
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Seeing as I'm new to the forum I figured I would make a post to start participating. This is a Bois D'arc pipe I made the other day out of a piece of wood me and my dad decided was not straight enough for a longbow when I was a kid. The center of the wood was big enough that I thought I could make a bowl out of it, so I did! The stem is just an Oak dowel with a hole in it. I shaped outside of the bowl with a combination of using the oscillating spindle sander and my hands. The bowl Was made with a large drill bit, and bored further with a Dremel. I made a simple chamber under the bowl with a 10mm drill bit, then a 3/8 bit for the draw hole connecting the two. I finished the outside of the pipe with coconut oil, and treated the bowl with and activated charcoal paste made with water. It's a tad warm to the ouch after an hour or so of smoking but it hasn't cracked yet. I'm possibly going to find a good Churchwarden stem for it...My tools needs sharpening...LOL.
My main reason for making aside from my newbly-woobly interest in Pipe Smoking, was to replace the crappy 3 dollar corncob I bought from the tobacco shop. Anyways, greetings from Texas, I'm glad to be here. I'm currently smoking Captain Black out of the thing and it's wonderful.
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