Black Bamboo Beetle In Morta

[ravkesef]

Jack--you are one incredible pipemaker!

 

[ssjones]

I love it when a maker continues the unique profile of the bamboo to the stem. Those finish combinations you chose really work.

 

[antbauers]

Incredible...the force of PAD is strong with these.

 

[hawke]

I like em both equally. Beautiful Sir.

Im playing with my first build combining an old estate bowl with the black bamboo. Using some light colored bamboo from around home which the knuckles are far apart, I found really provides a nice dry smoker when finished. The first had a brass tube the whole length(one in my signature) but the second without any tube thru, just raw bamboo was way better. Both are the same length but the raw bamboo shaft one is a nice cool and dry smoker. Bamboo rocks!

 

[kcghost]

As a lover of bent pipes I am truly grateful you didn't make these bents. This way I can resist the temptation.

 

[rigmedic1]

Drool, drool, drool, mmmmm, Morta and bamboo. That is gorgeous.

 

[tobyducote]

Zack, as someone who owns and smokes primarily Morta pipes, I have to say that pipe is wonderfully unique and just beautiful with the bamboo stem

 

[zack24]

Thanks guys! I just finished out a 2nd variation of this pipe that actually came out better than this one...Fun materials to work with....

 

[fishnbanjo]

Took one for the team!

 

[saltedplug]

These black bamboo/mortas are too die for, and I'm sure the pictures don't do them justice. I've had a hard time liking blond bamboo, but these black bamboos are just awesome! And the little knurls that accent the segments are so distinctive. Awesome work!

 

[zack24]

Thanks....Banjo ended up with the second of these pipes- I thought it came out better than the first....My first experience using tortoise amber for a stem- the material is translucent, so you spend almost as much time polishing the interior of the airway as you do polishing the stem...here's a pic of the stem....

 

[yazamitaz]

All I can say is WOW. Fantastic work sir. Was anyone surprised that banjo jumped on this morta???

 

[layinpipe]

I'll take a few more whacks at the dead horse and say, damn fine job zack, damn fine job indeed! Your pipes are still all over my radar and i WILL own one in the near future! Is that an actual amber stem? Or is it lucite or acrylic? Also, whatever became of that carbon fiber poker/billiard you were experimenting with a couple months ago?

 

[zack24]

Is that an actual amber stem? Or is it lucite or acrylic? Also, whatever became of that carbon fiber poker/billiard you were experimenting with

The stem is an Italian Acrylic....beautiful stuff, but takes lots of additional time on finishing....
On the billiard with the Carbon Fiber shank- still doing some testing on my own pipe...will probably end up with the carbon fiber tube as a sleeve over a briar stem- just the hollow carbon fiber tube by itself doesn't absorb moisture...

 

[layinpipe]

Awesome Zack, thanks for the update! Please keep me (us) updated on the carbon fiber pipe project as well. I really dig what you are up to in that arena and that may be the pipe for me once you are done with the r&d behind it. I definitely think a Cumberland stem with a white shank extension would be what I would want with the black finish on the rest of the pipe. Keep up the stellar work, brother!