Durability of Briarwood and Live Oak for Pipe Making

[mawnansmiff]

My mistake Eric, I thought you were using green oak. I should pay more attention
Nice tray you made there mind, with a neat cut-out for the knife. Did you put any finish on it, wax perhaps?
Regards,
Jay.

 

[cranseiron]

No worries, Jay and thank you for the compliment! I used 100% tongue oil-- an all natural very easy to use finish.

 

[jpmcwjr]

Eric- How long did you have to lick it, using tongue oil and all??
Nice work, though, on the piece itself.

 

[mso489]

If man weren't meant to smoke a tobacco pipe, Nature wouldn't have given us White Heather.

 

[cranseiron]

Thank you! Had to put my tongue in a vice, John, and squeeze the hell out of it. I won't be doing that again... suppose that's why the store bought stuff is so expensive :wink:

 

[cranseiron]

Ok, John, it just hit me... good catch and I was way too slow on the uptake

 

[jpmcwjr]

All's well that ends well! I like your replies.

 

[mawnansmiff]

All very tung in cheek eh lads?
Regards,
Jay.

 

[jpmcwjr]

Jay- Go light up one of your bowels.....

 

[cranseiron]

Yeah, Jay.... what John says :nana: :D

 

[mawnansmiff]

I'm rather worried about your obsession with my innards John, do you not have any of your own?
Regards,
Jay.

 

[jpmcwjr]

In your all your perspicacity, you fail to note I am twitting your multiple corrections of others regarding the same two words. I hope your innards are fine, though.

Mine are great for my age; missing only one vestigial organ removed 25 years ago.
Have a good morning!

 

[mawnansmiff]

"In your all your perspicacity"
Hmmm.
"missing only one vestigial organ removed 25 years ago."
It wasn't a marble by any chance was it?
Regards,
Jay.

 

[jpmcwjr]

The marbles I've lost weren't due to surgery.....great expression. Here's one way it did not come about, but interesting. I recall when Lord Elgin brought those pieces to London.

It has been suggested that the 'losing one's mind' meaning derives from the Elgin Marbles. These are the collection of sculptures, some from the Parthenon Frieze, which were taken from Athens by Lord Elgin in 1806. The supposition is that the expression derives from the loss of the artworks by the Greeks, or their subsequent loss at sea when the ship that was transporting them sank. An interesting theory, but no more than that; there's no evidence to support the idea.

 

[nevadablue]

Anyway... Eric sent me a box of blocks to play with. :D Live oak blocks that is. This stuff is dense and heavy and beautiful, even in the raw form. I have been studying stummel making, ordered two chucks for my lathe and am trying to clear a spot in my shop to put the lathe. It is in a storage container right now. Hopefully soon, I will attempt making a prototype poker, from ordinary oak and then the real thing out of Live Oak for Eric. I hope to make some Falcon bowls from this material too.

News as it happens... ::

 

[ryeguy]

I thought you were using green oak . . .

When I moved to Texas from the mid-Atlantic, the name "live oak" really bothered me.
They are nothing like other oaks (aside from producing nuts that resemble acorns).
And "live" doesn't seem to distinguish them from any other tree (until someone explains that it refers to their being evergreen).
Absolutely gorgeous trees though, especially once they get some moss on them.

 

[jpmcwjr]

I think the "live" comes from how the leaves shimmer and move.