My nephew has been staying with us while going to flight school and had mentioned several times wanting to learn to make and smoke pipes. One day a couple of weeks ago, I headed to the shop with him, found the hardest piece of wood I had at the time (which was Texas ebony) and we made him a pipe together. He did most of the work....I just gave him some pointers on the use of the tools. I'd like to post pictures of it, but I'll leave that up to him.
I still don't know how well Texas ebony is going to be for smoking long term, but we've smoked it a few times and have thoroughly enjoyed it so far.
I have some briar on order, but I got antsy and decided to make another from the same block as his keeping in mind a few lessons learned from the first one. I'll find out how it smokes tonight.
I'm completely new to both pipe making and smoking, so I'm completely open to critique.
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