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Handcrafted Polished White Tail Deer Antler Pipe #1297 with patented “liquid Meerschaum” bowl was shaped from a select natural shed antler.
This pipe is 5 1/4 inches long overall and 4 1/2 inches wide. Each pipe is boiled in a beeswax solution which not only seals all the tiny microscopic holes so the pipe doesn’t leak, but they are completely sterilized at the same time!
Beautiful “Liquid Meerschaum Bowl” uniquely colored and every one is different from the last!! This pipe is so beautifully cool you may want to just keep it for a collector’s item!
Care and craftsmanship is what goes into each piece, which is individually made one at a time!
The pipe bowl has been poured with “Liquid meerschaum”. This is produced from meerschaum carving scraps and other pieces of solid block meerschaum that have been ground to a powder and mixed with hydrocal to proctect the antler from burning. The color is common food coloring.
Notice also in the close up of the hollowed out antler bowl just prior to filling.... I carefully undercut the rim inside so that the poured “liquid meerschaum” insert cannot possibly ever pop out!
If I have learned anything at all about pipe making and pipe smoking is that unless you can clean it....it’s just not a good pipe! And really more of a pain in the neck then anything!
This is part of the reason I started making pipes! Pipes with stems, weather fancy, beautiful, ugly, doesn’t matter.
Unless you can get it back to the original clean state It was in when you bought it, its only going to get more and more constricted and you can draw in a breath for all your worth and..... barely nothing! Sound familiar?
This is why most of my pipes are short and without a mouthpiece or screen. I drill one shot from the mouthpiece towards the bowl and hope I hit at the bottom and center. Sounds easy, but there are their challenges. The mouthpiece hole is 1/8 inch 99% of the time. Some smaller antlers won’t accept 1/8 so I go slightly smaller. But again, I don’t like to go that small because of less air flow. The smallest hole I drill is in the bottom of the bowl. And its just smaller then the 1/8 hole.
The reason for this is I want you to be able tocarefullyrun a 1/8 drill bit or something 1/8 inch around down in there and clean it out, when it starts getting plugged. Of course its best to get out the isopropyl alcohol and give it a good cleaning Inside every so often, which will avoid serious plug ups. The same with the bowl, a regular wire pipe cleaner is best, but something small enough to get through there.
With pipes with stems its just a matter of how you want to spend your time.... you will spend time cleaning them as well! And this is why I try to keep my antler pipes as simple as possible so you don’t have to spend time being frustrated and cleaning!
Artist note:
Generally pipes that are numbered 600 and higher, have a bowl that is as large as the antler will allow, the “smaller bowl” pipes are currently listed with a huge savings for volume pieces! And even though most tobacco smokers prefer the larger bowls, there are some of us that still prefer a smaller bowl for our special herbs.
About the Artist...
....First, allow me to introduce my self. My name is Brian Cody, I live in the NW corner of The beautiful State of Montana!
For the past twenty years plus I have been designing, crafting, building and selling antler chandeliers. They have been as large as ten feet and as small as twelve inches. Though I’m still making my chandeliers I’m definitely enjoying the smaller craft items as well!!!
A friend of mine gave me my first antler pipe when I was about 18. I was a full time taxidermy shop owner at the time and also was was making various antler things like cribbage boards and door pulls.
I always liked my little antler pipe and it has since become the inspiration for what you now see me making!
In between antler chandeliers and sconces I’m building these really cool totally individual custom made one at a time antler pipes, numbering them as I go ....(but not on the pipe itself).....These include mostly white tail, some mule deer, an occasional elk and some fallow deer antler.
It’s funny how I now live within five miles of the taxidermy/museum and gift shop that was once ran by the late Robert Mullen of Troy, Montana.
The first time we passed through Montana on vacation when I was a boy, my Dad bought me some antlers from his gift shop.....they truly have led me on a life long journey, and it seems ironic how I now I am where I’m at.... living just around the corner from there!
I would have to say that the individual uniqueness of every antler, no matter if it is a large Alaskan moose or a tiny Coues deer White tail deer antler. Every one is as similar yet its own personality....kind of like every one of us!
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