For those occasional nites around the campfire...

[JW_Halverson]

...and I feel like burning a little tobacco:



The bowl is from a chokecherry.  I cut it off where several branches whorled from the main stem, just to add some character.

The stem is green ash. tapered to fit the bowl and set with a li'l bit of hide glue.

Finish is simply beeswax.  As I played the heatgun across the wood, it browned the surface just slightly.  No stain was used.



The bowl is just over an inch across, outside diameter, and 5/8" inside.  The stem was drilled out with a bit of brass wire filed into a chisel point.  It followed the pith of the branch perfectly.

[lowell]

Very nice!!   If hadn't quit the pipe many years ago.........I could go for a bowl full!!!!!

  How did you hollow out the bowl???

[seabass]

cool pipe Jdub.i quit smoking years ago,but occasionally enjoy a fine cigar.

[sonny]

did you carve the bowl to that shape or turn it ??
either way it looks great!

you realize that you should have posted a pic looking down into the bowl right

[TRACY]

Very cool work JW! Where do you put the bubbles in?



Tracy

[sonny]

Very cool work JW! Where do you put the bubbles in?



Tracy

lol

[Stoker]

Nice
Thanks Leroy

[sadiejane]

very nice bowl.
been wanting to try my hand at some wood and/or stone pipes.
i too would be interested to know how ya hollowed out the bowl
thanks

[IsaacW]

COOL!  I like it.  Keep us posted on how the bowl holds up.  I would like to try an unlined burl bowl and see how it lasts.

IW

[Pappy]

Very nice looking pipe,I made a few but had trouble getting them to draw like they should,maybe the way I put the stem in or where I drill the bottom hole.
   Pappy

[Kpete]

JW,
how does that kind of wood hold up to the heat of burning the tobacco.  I really like the smell of pipe tobacco...until you set it on fire.

[JW_Halverson]

Bowl was cut with a 5/8 inch HSS drill bit.  I cut the branch section off squarely and set it on the bench.  Is I pushed downward I held onto the section of branch with my hand.  Eventually the bit got a hold of hardened wood where a knot bisected and it sput out of my hand causing a bit of a blinter inside my thumb.  With the wood firmly stuck on the drill bit I then walked over to the benchsander and proceeded to do some freehand lathe work to shape the outside. 

At that point I trapped the shaped bowl in a Jorgenson wood clamp and finished drilling out the bowl.  I ran a small pilot hole thru the side to locate the bottom of the bowl and got lucky. 

All that was left was to open that small pilot hole with a 1/4 inch bit, shape and taper the stem on the benchsander, and fit it together.  I had serveral false starts getting it to draw until I took the brass wire chisel bit and hammered it out a little wider and redrilled the hole.  Something didn't initially match up where the stem met the bowl and the re-drilling fixed that. 

I have some other wood sitting by that would make good combinations, so I will have to turn out a few more before I quit. 

[JW_Halverson]

JW,
how does that kind of wood hold up to the heat of burning the tobacco.  I really like the smell of pipe tobacco...until you set it on fire.

The inside of the bowl chars, just like it does with high end hard briar pipes.  It just chars faster.  The trick is to keep your burn cool, pipe smoking is not a race. 

I had a bowl this afternoon, lasted a good 20-25 minutes.  I did notice the bowl does get a little warm...warm enough to melt the beeswax and make my hand waxy.  Will try a thicker wall next time.

[Kpete]

JW,
Are you smoking Kinnikinnic?  Buffalo patties are just grass.   I was in South Africa a few years ago and they were going to make Kudu biltong.  They gathered cowpies for smoking the meat.  They told me that cow pies are just grass!
If I see smoke signals to my "East" I will know you are just lighting up!

[bowtarist]

neat pipe jdub. dp