Video of Meerschaum mining and carving

[chispa]

Check out this interesting video of meerschaum mining and carving.
Starts with a guy being lowered 300 feet in the ground and ends with a fancy carved meer in a velvet case.
Meerschaum video

 

[pipeinhand]

That was great! You can tell by looking into the carvers eyes that he loves what he does. I get the same feeling with a piece of wood. Thanks for sharing this with us. ::

 

[terry]

Cool video! thanks for sharing. :clap:

 

[mluyckx]

Nice ! Don't have a meer (yet). Waiting tilli've got more experience. But they sure look nice

 

[shaintiques]

Yeah that was cool makes you appreciate what you have