Bamboo overload

[fishnbanjo]

Don't even ask if this is all of the real bamboo shanks I own, it is not. There are others upstairs that would not fit in the photo, none of my cobs or rock cobs are included nor anything on the way, enjoy while I pick one to keep smokey. Cheers.

banjo

 

[ejames]

There's more ?? 8O Great collection of bamboo !!

 

[drunkblowhard]

I love that fat bamboo poker on the far right! What a knockout of a pipe! Who made that one?!

 

[fishnbanjo]

It was a toss up between that pipe by Jerry Zenn or the one I'm smoking. Since I had a hankering for some Wessex Brown Virginia Flake so I loaded up the Dr's Pipe with Buddha bamboo shank. Keeping it smokey.

banjo

 

[voorhees]

That's the one I picked too!!

 

[lohengrin]

That's a bamboo forest!

 

[drunkblowhard]

Excellent.

 

[cosmicfolklore]

I envy your bamboo collection. With a few acres of bamboo around me, I've come to love that Gilligan's Island look also.

 

[travelergypsy]

I envy you your collection! I love cobs. One of these days, I will grab me one of those bamboo cobs.

 

[shotime]

WOW

 

[newbroom]

I think the ones with 'strawberry' bowls look best with bamboo. It looks fine with the other shapes too, of course.

Are most of these shanks lined with a tube?

 

[fishnbanjo]

newbroom, most of the best ones have tubing, some have tubing at the transition where the stummel and shank come together and the stem also has a piece of tubing for the fit to the bamboo, none have complete tubing going through like a Dunhill innertube would.
There are other types of tubing used today other than the original stainless tubing originally used, there is aircraft grade aluminum tubing and carbon fiber tubing which is inert and can be stronger than its metal counterpart and lighter.
I always thought, and this is mere conjecture on my part, that the original use of bamboo came about because a maker had a stummel that was too nice to discard and perhaps a problem area was found on the original shank so the stummel was fitted with a bamboo shank saving what may have ordinarily would have been discarded. Today I'm sure most of the pipes with bamboo were destined to be made with that medium, whatever the case I think it's a splendid look. Cheers.

banjo