'Tis the Season for Pumpkin Pi(pes)
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He doesn't get his skull pipes carved from wood, he uses real skulls.
Monkey skulls, though, not hooman ones.
(that's what I've been told, anyway)
S.YANIK MEERSCHAUM Pipe JACK- O - LANTERN SPECIAL CASE With TAMPER 65 | eBay
The holes and airways of the pipes vary depending on the shape and size of pipes and their size generally change between 2 mm and 4,5 mm. Likewise, sizes of the pipes’ bowls change. Bowls are covered with beeswax in order to protect and render them long lasting.
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S.YANIK MEERSCHAUM Pipe XL BONE HAND HOLDING SKULL with SPECIAL CASE Q266 | eBay
The holes and airways of the pipes vary depending on the shape and size of pipes and their size generally change between 2 mm and 4,5 mm. Likewise, sizes of the pipes’ bowls change. Bowls are covered with beeswax in order to protect and render them long lasting.
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Goodness no, I don't like Yanik's skulls. I prefer mostly anatomically correct skulls versus horror movie and new meerschaum has exceeded my price limit. My Halloween commission looks like this.
I've actually gotten some items from a college medical supply company but my pipes are meerschaum and briar.
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You can actually legally buy complete skeletons.
Do you have to let their relatives visit them?
From what I can understand, they're all donations to science. When I bought my skull in college, an anatomy professor ordered it for me through the college catalog. Not sure how it works now though there are sites that offer them for much, much more than I paid 30 years ago. I'd like to find a scrimshaw artist at some point put an old world map on mine.
This is just one of the many reasons I wouldn't donate my remains (or anything else for that matter) to "science".
I don't want to end up on your mantel with a scrimshaw map on my skull.
I'm just not a "Halloween" aesthetic guy. Skulls and demons and such just never appealed to me. The memento mori just makes me sad. Not that it reminds me of my own mortality, but it just reminds me of those I love that I have lost.
I guess I am not much of a Christmas aesthetic guy either... same reason.
I guess I am not much of a Christmas aesthetic guy either... same reason.
I dunno. If it were my skull Embers mantle would be as good a resting place as any. Perhaps he could even light a pipe for me from time to time.
I would take being on Chasingember's mantle anyday over being on "former member" Deathemetal's mantle. I would probably get voodoo'd or something just as terrible.
I suggest you both get it in writing to be donated directly to Embers then, rather than going the "science" route...or you may very well end up on Deathmetal's...or even (God forbid) BROBS' mantel.
Trevor Talbert makes some very good pumpkin pipes though they are of the evil jack-o-lantern variety.
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Whenever I see a skull pipe posted here I stop scrolling for a few minutes, this thread might yield me a prescription for coke bottle glasses because my eyeballs are pretty much glued to the screen.
I wonder, has anyone here experiences with real bone being used for tobacco pipes? I know of horn but never heard of bone.
I wonder, has anyone here experiences with real bone being used for tobacco pipes? I know of horn but never heard of bone.
I think it was a Talbert Jackolantern pipe I saw years ago that was just wicked cool. Wish I could find / buy one! It wasn’t gruesome just a straight scary looking pumpkin affair. I’ve seen his website but I don’t think he’s currently making them or anything like them. Sadly.
Bone burns and it smells terrible.