pipe hawks

[graybeard]

Has anyone actually smoked the pipe part of a pipe-hawk?  I've been a pipe smoker for nearly 60 years.  Briar, cob, meershaum, even clay are porous to some extent.  Can't imagine anyone smoking a metal pipe.  Especially since the tobacco of the day was pretty strong stuff.  graybeard

[vthompson]

I have 4 "pipe hawks" hanging on my living room wall and I have never smoked any of them either. I have puffed on them and only 1 has a good seal. I just keep my smoking to my deer antler pipe.

[Three Hawks]

I have only clay pipes in my Rondy gear.   At home I have a good quality briar bent pipe I've had for ten or so years.  It's nicely broken in and a delight to smoke.

Over the years I've bought several twists of allegedly Period Correct tobacco.  If it was all I had, I'd never smoke again.  The stuff tastes like moldy goat ropes delicately seasoned in rancid yak barf,  and is twice as strong as bull's p*ss with the foam farted off.  Not in the good way, either.

I think I'd look with a somewhat jaundiced eye at a metal pipe bowl, be it steel, brass, silver, pewter, whatever.   Clay pipes are cheap and don't impart any taste, cob pipes are inoffensive as well.  My bent briar is a source of joy and relaxation.   I used one clay pipe in particular until it caked to the point of not being able to load it for a smoke of more than two or three minutes.  One evening after supper, I put it in the coals of my campfire and allowed it to come to a nice red glow for ten minutes or so.  In the morning I fished  it out of the ashes and it was like new.  I learned later that this is the traditional way a clay pipe is cleaned.  Who knew?

Three Hawks

[rickevans]

"Over the years I've bought several twists of allegedly Period Correct tobacco. If it was all I had, I'd never smoke again. The stuff tastes like moldy goat ropes delicately seasoned in rancid yak barf, and is twice as strong as bull's p*ss with the foam farted off. Not in the good way, either. "

You owe me a new keyboard. Coffee all over it when I read that statement.

[vthompson]

I enjoy smoking my antler pipe but I have never smoked a clay pipe. Where can I buy a clay pipe so that I could try it out? Any help would be appreciated. Thank's.

[graybeard]

Three hawks, you exaggerate.  I didn't think the stuff tasted nearly that good.  graybeard

[Three Hawks]

I enjoy smoking my antler pipe but I have never smoked a clay pipe. Where can I buy a clay pipe so that I could try it out? Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.

I got mine from Turkey Foot Traders.

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 Jas Townsend and Son sell them as does Dixie Gun Works.  Many if not most other sutlers stock them as well.  Watch prices, some sellers consider clay pipes to be both holy and precious.  

One thing you will learn early on in your clay pipe smoking career is to keep your booger hooks off the bowl.  That little sucker gets seriously hot.  

Need you ask?

Three Hawks

[attheedgeoftheworld]

if a pipe hawk is made correctly you can smoke it like any other pipe. it just has to be made correctly. I have a sheet metal pipe from the late Mike Ameling and it smokes great. with I had a few more of them.

[Bison Horn]

 At home I have a good quality briar bent pipe I've had for ten or so years.  It's nicely broken in and a delight to smoke.

Three Hawks

Yes & they don't hang like a 10# weight.

[Longhunter]

I've got a brass pipe hawk that I've smoked some....not my best smoker.  My favorite pipe was one made from pipe stone by my friend Norm Blaker.  It was small with a reed stem and had a drop piece with a hole from which hung a single trade bead. When the stem wore out I replaced it with a turkey wing bone. It got dropped and broke years ago but I've still got the pieces. Maybe I'll get Norm to make me another someday.

 

[sse]

What's the name of that red stone that was used by plains indians for their pipe bowls?  Read about it a number of times, but can't remember what its called.

[Longhunter]

Catlinite or Calumet

Go here then click on the highlighted Calumet

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calumet_(pipe)

[sse]

Thanks!

[Three Hawks]

Another excellent stone to make pipes from is steatite or soapstone.

Of course this presumes you can actually find some.

If you want a PC lookin' pipe without mortgaging the old home place your best bet is still a clay pipe.

Three Hawks.

[Longhunter]

This is an original clay pipe bowl that I've had for 35 years.