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The bowls of tobacco pipes are commonly made of briar wood, meerschaum, corncob, pear-wood, rose-wood or clay. Less common materials include other dense-grained woods such as cherry , olive , maple , mesquite , oak , and bog-wood .
A smoking pipe is used to taste the smoke of a burning substance; most common is a tobacco pipe. Pipes are commonly made from briar , heather , corncob , meerschaum , clay , cherry , glass , porcelain , ebonite and acrylic .
Pipe smoking is the practice of tasting (or, less commonly, inhaling) the smoke produced by burning a substance, most commonly tobacco or cannabis, in a pipe. It is the oldest traditional form of smoking .
Meerschaum became a premium substitute for the clay pipes of the day and remains prized to this day, although since the mid-1800s briar pipes have become the most common pipes for smoking. The use of briar wood, beginning in the early 1820s, greatly reduced demand for clay pipes and, to a lesser degree, meerschaum pipes. The qualities of ...
Souvenirs made out of morta / bog-wood Tobacco pipe made of morta / bog-wood. One of the uses of bog-wood is for making of tobacco pipes. It is an ideal material because of a high percentage of minerals, reaching up to 12%, which makes bog-wood especially resistant to burning.
Wooden dugout box with cigarette-styled one-hitter, technically a small chillum (with end-to-end channel) Sebsi (Morocco) with clay craterhead and long wooden tube. Brands of cigarette-sized one hitters for inconspicuous public use are marketed with a rectangular (or sometimes cylindrical) wooden case, known as a "dugout", with two compartments, the larger to store a stash of herb or tobacco ...
Pipe making among amaXhosa is a specialised craft traditionally practised by men only. Even though the demand for pipes has decreased in the 21st century, as smoking is becoming less popular, there are still craftsmen who make these pipes. Pipe makers now supplement their income by making wooden spoons and yokes for oxen.
According to Alfred Dunhill, Africans have long employed chillum-style pipes for smoking cannabis and later tobacco. Gourds and various horns were often employed while conical bowls were common in Uganda. One of the more famous pipes is an ivory cone pipe once belonging to Buganda monarch King Mtesa. [3]