Other types of wood for tobacco pipes...

[thesmokindragon]

Since I'm big-time infant stage of pipe carve'in, I have been get'in different lower-cost type woods

from my new distrubutor to screw up :wink: He has some Pistachio wood, which I think I will try my hand at next for a poker-style pipe..bday present for my Uncle T
Take a look at this wild image I found online of a pipe made from Pistachio wood...crazy!

Pistachio Wood

 

[thesmokindragon]

Thanks Baskerville, my guy is pretty educated and knows what I'm doing with it, told him nothing that is gonna kill me, don't want to become famous that way...or at least until my pipes are "up to snuff" and smoked all over the world..nice "pipe dreams" :rofl:

 

[romeowood]

Pistachio trees are also beautiful "on the hoof" as it were. I spent a season in the Blue Mountains of Jamaica on a coffee plantation and we had to cull a few of them; gorgeous wood, delightful foliage and amazing fresh nuts. They also make sweet firewood, I'd recommend some for grilling planks.

 

[schmitzbitz]

amazing fresh nuts. They also make sweet firewood, I'd recommend some for grilling planks

Back when I was still trying to make a living off of smoked seafood products, we used to make a "log" of cream-cheese, wrapped in pistachio-smoked (as opposed to the usual cedar smoked) lox which we would crust with sliced pistachio nuts from California. The smell of the lox smoking was absolutely amazing.

 

[thesmokindragon]

now I'm drool'in for smoke'in Pistaschio pipes and have'in some lunch ;-)

 

[baronsamedi]

I wonder if ironwood would make a cool pipe.

 

[thesmokindragon]

Found this link on it http://www.hobbithouseinc.com/personal/woodpics/ironwood,%20desert.htm
Says hard, dense wood but brittle and cracks easily....haven't worked with it

 

[unclearthur]

It's a major PITA to work. Hard as Hades and highly prone to cracking. It was used as sheaves for rigging on sailing ships. The raw blocks were shipped in barrels of linseed oil.

 

[thesmokindragon]

@Uncle A - How would you finish the olive wood? I just made a jaw-breaker poker for myself and I'm wondering should I just leave it unfinished or not?

 

[unclearthur]

Wax. carnauba is best.

 

[pstlpkr]

I carved a cane top out of Ironwood for my mother...

Uncle is right... It's a PITA!

I attempted to make a pipe rest out of a block that I have...

I gave it up... for now, just too hard and will burn up a scroll saw blade.

 

[docrx]

Blue Mountain coffee yummmmmmmmmmmmmmm

 

[uberam3rica]

well if you die from smoking one of the pipes you make at least you die doing something you love.see theres a silver lining to anything

 

[thesmokindragon]

@Unc, thanks my friend ::