Walnut Pipes

Piping Abe · Tue Dec 20, 2022 3:22 pm

Ok so who’s gonna make some? Anyone can! Watch the 30 second video below

Wildcat · Tue Dec 20, 2022 3:44 pm

Piping Abe wrote: ↑Tue Dec 20, 2022 3:22 pm Ok so who’s gonna make some? Anyone can! Watch the 30 second video below

All pipes are better with Walnut. It's true, look it up.

Loved the video. It would be fun to try!

Piping Abe · Tue Dec 20, 2022 3:46 pm

Wildcat wrote: ↑Tue Dec 20, 2022 3:44 pm
Piping Abe wrote: ↑Tue Dec 20, 2022 3:22 pm Ok so who’s gonna make some? Anyone can! Watch the 30 second video below

All pipes are better with Walnut. It's true, look it up.

Love to try it one day. Still trying to find some Chestnut anywhwre but P&C for a decent price.

I think Sweet Cask is a good Match for Sugar Barrel. Need to grab a tin of that too.

Wildcat · Tue Dec 20, 2022 3:47 pm

Fun to try like I said but the issue is the reed stem.

The narrator said drinking straw... Reeds back in the day? No... I never heard of that. Wood??

Piping Abe · Tue Dec 20, 2022 3:50 pm

Wildcat wrote: ↑Tue Dec 20, 2022 3:47 pm Fun to try like I said but the issue is the reed stem.

The narrator said drinking straw... Reeds back in the day? No... I never heard of that. Wood??

I would try a MM Stem and see how it works out. Could be fun.

Wildcat · Tue Dec 20, 2022 3:54 pm

Piping Abe wrote: ↑Tue Dec 20, 2022 3:50 pm
Wildcat wrote: ↑Tue Dec 20, 2022 3:47 pm Fun to try like I said but the issue is the reed stem.

The narrator said drinking straw... Reeds back in the day? No... I never heard of that. Wood??
I would try a MM Stem and see how it works out. Could be fun.

Too thick for a walnut tho... No? Maybe a stem off off an Eaton or one of their other small bowled pipes. There are resources out there for reeds I think anyway

Mr Beardsley · Tue Dec 20, 2022 4:42 pm

Isn't the actual walnut wood on the no no list for pipes? Doesn't matter because I'm not a gypsy and I also don't have one of those sweet hand drills

Piping Abe · Tue Dec 20, 2022 4:45 pm

Mr Beardsley wrote: ↑Tue Dec 20, 2022 4:42 pm Isn't the actual walnut wood on the no no list for pipes? Doesn't matter because I'm not a gypsy and I also don't have one of those sweet hand drills

https://www.wood-database.com/black-walnut/

Wildcat · Tue Dec 20, 2022 4:47 pm

Mr Beardsley wrote: ↑Tue Dec 20, 2022 4:42 pm Isn't the actual walnut wood on the no no list for pipes? Doesn't matter because I'm not a gypsy and I also don't have one of those sweet hand drills

You'd know better than I Beards, but is the shell the same material as the wood itself? Know what I mean? Chemically etc, the same material?

Mr Beardsley · Tue Dec 20, 2022 4:52 pm

Wildcat wrote: ↑Tue Dec 20, 2022 4:47 pm
Mr Beardsley wrote: ↑Tue Dec 20, 2022 4:42 pm Isn't the actual walnut wood on the no no list for pipes? Doesn't matter because I'm not a gypsy and I also don't have one of those sweet hand drills
You'd know better than I Beards, but is the shell the same material as the wood itself? Know what I mean? Chemically etc, the same material?

I don't know in all honesty. Somewhere (I think on pipe makers forum) there's a list of yay and nay for pipes. I know walnut is a wood that messes with my sinuses and lungs something fierce when I work it. But I do it anyway because I love it