Oak pipes, any good?
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If they were much good, I think you’d be seeing more about them here and other places. I’ve seen other hard woods but aside from briar, morta and olive, not much.
Toxicosis from oak is produced by high concentrations of tannic acid and its metabolites, gallic acid, and pyrogallol. Ingestion of toxic amounts of oak has been shown to cause ulcerative lesions in the upper and lower gastrointestinal tract, liver lesions, and necrosis of proximal renal tubular epithelial cells.
Well then, I think I’ll pass on a new oak pipe.
I think the Oak would be fine if a yellow ribbon were tied around it.
If you like the look of oak, check out the vauen 'lime' series. The use an oak stummel (with a limed finish) but insert a meerschaum bowl.
I have one and like it quite a bit.
I have one and like it quite a bit.
Wow ! ... I'm not even gonna' look at oak finish Peterson's now !
Thanks for the info ! . 
Morta (bog oak) is semi-fossilised oak
Hopefully all or most of the nasty tannins will have been leached out after several thousand years of immersion.
Hopefully all or most of the nasty tannins will have been leached out after several thousand years of immersion.
I have the bent apple, but here's an example of the limed finish. You can just make out the meerschaum-lined bowl.
Yeah, there’s that. But they taste really nice and look good.
I make my own pipe cement from oak ashes.
Wood ashes alone are said to be nontoxic and mixed with water this stuff dries rock hard.
Will try mix with waterglass too, but need to do some research.
Wood ashes alone are said to be nontoxic and mixed with water this stuff dries rock hard.
Will try mix with waterglass too, but need to do some research.
Remember that you are burning leaves in it that give off many poisonous substances of their own. I doubt that whatever is coming off the smoke of an oak pipe is going to make a lick of difference. I've sat by many oak-fed fires and inhaled the smoke coming off it and I'm not dead yet
I am yet to smoke my one new morta pipe .
Burns more often occur in morta than in briar,
so I contemplate giving the bowl an organic coating.
Anyhow; we are supposed to burn the tobacco, not the wood that contains it
I am not keen on fireplaces, wood burning stoves, open fires etc.
The smell does not agree with me and both the smell and the smoke irritate my respiratory tract .
Burns more often occur in morta than in briar,
so I contemplate giving the bowl an organic coating.
Anyhow; we are supposed to burn the tobacco, not the wood that contains it
I am not keen on fireplaces, wood burning stoves, open fires etc.
The smell does not agree with me and both the smell and the smoke irritate my respiratory tract .
I, personally, think hardwood pipes are way underrated—and shunned undeservedly simply because they are not briar. I do not have an oak pipe, but I actually prefer hardwood pipes to briar in many situations, mainly because the material seems so much more absorbent than briar . If I saw an oak pipe I liked, I’d go for it
Oak is one of the woods commonly used to smoke food, I think you would absorb a lot less oak smoke byproducts from a caked pipe than you would from a brisket.
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Recently raised the floor on a MM Legend bowl 1/4 inch using oak ash mud, was missing the plug. Very durable.
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