My Canadian Maple Billiard Hand Made

[newbroom]

I've got two artisan pipes and both are excellent smokers. One is an excellently executed briar billiard with a tapered lucite stem and the other is made from Canadian Maple with a vulcanite stem. They were both made by a fellow forum member from
Canada, named Chris Besse.
Like most artisans, Chris is a stubbornly opinionated old so and so with certain ideas about internals of the pipe and his are always exactly constructed by hand. No mass production here. Each of Chris's renditions is more a love of craftsmanship and pipe smoking than it is an attempt at commercial value.
I smoke my Canadian Maple billiard often and it has colored from its original pale white to look more and more like meerschaum.

Christopher Pipes

Hand carved briar tobacco pipes

christopherpipes.coffeecup.com

 

[Hillcrest]

One is an excellently executed briar billiard with a tapered lucite stem and the other is made from Canadian Maple with a vulcanite stem

Very nice looking pipe !!! How does the maple smoke compared to the briar ? Is there any discernable difference in taste, heat or handling ?

 

[newbroom]

I don't think Maple conducts the heat as efficiently as briar, but it doesn't impart any flavor other than what you might get from your cake.
I'd had previous experience with maple bowls with Missouri Merschaum's Hardwoods.
All pipes require their own particular cadence to maintain optimum flavor.

 

[huntertrw]

My Canadian Maple Billiard Hand Made​

With Billiard and Maple in the title of this thread I was expecting to see something along the lines of this:

 

[huntertrw]

newbroom:

Nice pipe, Sir! Congratulations to you and to Mr. Besse.

Will you be posting an image of the briar model?

I smoke my Canadian Maple billiard often and it has colored from its original pale white to look more and more like meerschaum.

So, would that be a mapleschaum?

 

[newbroom]

I have done so in the past. Let me go through my desktop time machine and see if I can find the picture.

 

[newbroom]

I just found the first picture I took of my Besse Maple billiard.

 

[newbroom]

More about our Canadian friend Chirs Besse, and more reason to cherish one or two of his pipes.
Chris and I both started pipe smoking around 2014. Chris wasn't even a tobacco user till then.
We crossed paths in various comment threads here on this forum and for some reason, Chris took a liking to me and what I seemed to provoke in him. (I think it was my enthusiastic suggestion to have a bunch of us do a block kit pipe that got him started making pipes!)
Chris has gifted me several pipes since then, and you can see two he made in this thread.
Unfortunately, Chris's pipe making is almost at a standstill till he can get some surgery done on at least one of his shoulders.
He's still got pipes for sale though and I'm sure they're guaranteed to be great smoking pipes of artisan quality.
I hope you show him some love and at least take a look!
Christopherpipes.com’

 

[tomatamot]

More about our Canadian friend Chirs Besse, and more reason to cherish one or two of his pipes.
Chris and I both started pipe smoking around 2014. Chris wasn't even a tobacco user till then.
We crossed paths in various comment threads here on this forum and for some reason, Chris took a liking to me and what I seemed to provoke in him. (I think it was my enthusiastic suggestion to have a bunch of us do a block kit pipe that got him started making pipes!)
Chris has gifted me several pipes since then, and you can see two he made in this thread.
Unfortunately, Chris's pipe making is almost at a standstill till he can get some surgery done on at least one of his shoulders.
He's still got pipes for sale though and I'm sure they're guaranteed to be great smoking pipes of artisan quality.
I hope you show him some love and at least take a look!
Christopherpipes.com’

Can you pm me his email address? Please.

 

[tomatamot]

More about our Canadian friend Chirs Besse, and more reason to cherish one or two of his pipes.
Chris and I both started pipe smoking around 2014. Chris wasn't even a tobacco user till then.
We crossed paths in various comment threads here on this forum and for some reason, Chris took a liking to me and what I seemed to provoke in him. (I think it was my enthusiastic suggestion to have a bunch of us do a block kit pipe that got him started making pipes!)
Chris has gifted me several pipes since then, and you can see two he made in this thread.
Unfortunately, Chris's pipe making is almost at a standstill till he can get some surgery done on at least one of his shoulders.
He's still got pipes for sale though and I'm sure they're guaranteed to be great smoking pipes of artisan quality.
I hope you show him some love and at least take a look!
Christopherpipes.com’

But....... he does not ship overseas and that is just what I am.