An Artisan Discovered -- J Alan Pipes 

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Thanks Sarah! I agree with your feelings, completely. If you choose to enjoy, enjoy responsibly. :)

Lovely! I'm glad that the videos have been helpful! You can use shellac (though I'd advise against it) or try out some Danish oil.

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Follow me on instagram KJpipes. I took a pic of my shop Id be happy to show you some of the tools I use. I have very tools little since Ive only been crafting pipes under a year. Be warned if you start you wont stop ..... Its an addicting art lol Mason Askew

bunchongsakw thanks so much. Have a look at my Instagram. If you see something you like that is recently made, reach out to me. Or, send me an email with your preferences and I’ll see if have available or am working on something compatible. Thanks for your message. :-)

FirehouseMike No dyes are used in the bowl. The black coating is a mixture that pre-treats the wood with activated charcoal to neutralize the flavor (so you may taste your tobacco more transparently), protect the wood during the first few uses, as well as make it look more finished.

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+Pavle Pavlovic I just placed 19th in a slow smoke competition of 42 people, my time was 44:21. I have been smoking for nearly a year now and I just figured out how to smoke. First, don't get discouraged by tongue bite, I am just now getting over my tongue bite from the competition and it was three days ago. Tongue bite is what you experience from smoking hot, i.e. smoking to fast and to hard. Slow down, sip the pipe and smoke tobacco by enjoying the process and flavor and not the end result. Second, a cheap pipe can have an impact on how you are forced to smoke, a poor draft hole will make it impossible for you to get a good intake and leave your tobacco at the bottom of the bowl moist and nasty. Find a pipe within the 40-60 dollar range on Ebay, preferably an estate pipe from Peterson, Savinelli, GBD, Wessex, these are all good starting points for pipe smokers, make sure it is clean before you smoke out of it but try to leave some cake on the bowl if there is any, that should help it to burn cooler as well. Third, the tobacco you smoke is undeniably the most important aspect of pipe smoking enjoyment. Virginia tobacco burns hot, meaning that if you smoke it too fast and with too heavy of a draw, it will burn your mouth. Really, any tobacco can burn you if you smoke it wrong, but I feel there is a generally consensus that blends like Lane 1-Q are a great start for smokers who have trouble with tongue bite. Either way, don't buy drugstore blends, there are some that are great but most are not. Use matches when you can and only light the smallest amount possible, hold the flame above the tobacco and draw it into the bowl. Tamp down after the initial light with whatever pipe tamper you have and re light using the same method. After the second light you should have a great cherry going in your bowl, don't get nervous, it will probably go out, but as you smoke take note on what kind of draw it takes to keep it going and what kind it takes to smoke it. It is on fire, it will smoke, you don't always have to suck through the pipe with the force of a hoover to keep it on fire, unless of course your draft hole in your pipe is the width of a human hair. Good luck!

James Lloyd i am honered to get aresponse from expirienced smoker , but i must say i am not from a ritch country , and even worse im from rural parts of it , tho i have money to spend ,prodacts are hard to find. Believe it or not , i went in a local shop and i was amazed when i saw that they have Mac baren rolling tobaco, as low on list as it is , its rare to see any so i got it , Opened it home and it was bone dry with fungi all over it . Thank god i have sister in Germany and she sends me some quality stuff but this shiping shit and spoiled goods to third world countrys gets on my nerves ....I realised everthing youve said , i must burn it slow cuz hot tobaco vapor bites as it carries all sorts of stuff , so i use filters , smoke slow and in small dosses ...tho i can burn a pipe 30 minutes + that kind of smoking always ends up with a tongue bite especially in my cheap pipe ..i will try with a good one when i get it , but as you see i must be carefull in third world countrys they can sell you shit for 100e and call it whatever they want , and i thing the shape is not all size for all, so i must experiment before making that decision. Or maybe try Nargila ,

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***** WebMD: Cancer: Even if you don't inhale, you can get a number of different cancers from smoking pipes and cigars. People who smoke cigars regularly are four to 10 times more likely than nonsmokers to die from cancers of the mouth, larynx, and esophagus. Oral cancer can develop anywhere the smoke touches, including the lips, mouth, throat, and tongue. People who inhale also increase their risk for cancers of the lung, pancreas, and bladder. Lung disease. Cigar and pipe smoking double the risk for the airway damage that leads to chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), a lung disease that includes chronic bronchitis and emphysema. Smoking can also worsen existing asthma. Heart disease. Smoking cigars or pipes increases the likelihood of having heart disease or a stroke. Cigars boost the risk of early death from coronary heart disease by 30%. From WebMD www.webmd.com/smoking-cessation/effects-of-smoking-pipes-and-cigars Again, i love the idea of artisans, imagination, creating quality hand made things which last more than life time but why not put all that amazing ingenuity, creativity and passion into something which creates health, happiness, and improves humanity in some way? Even creating some really cool and fancy wooden cups would be a lot more creative and positive. When 20,000 people die of cancer every day (including my grandfathers) its hard to see that his passion and creativity is used in such a way.

Max Sidorov I get it. We all do. There are risks when we make choices. If you are unwilling to accept a possible risk associated with this, then maybe it isn't for you. As for me, I need to hop in my car and drive on the freeway right now. Yet another risk...

jalanpipes Its just that your passion and creativity can be used to create something which in some way makes people better, stimulates happiness or goodness. I probably sound like some old lady with a cane yelling at the young kids, but in our day where there is so much out there that creates negativity, and ill health, anything that does the opposite would be that much better. And comparing pipe smoking to driving on the freeway is like comparing flying to skydiving. And even that is a bad example. Everything has risk, some risk you have to take, like being alive, or making lifestyle choices which will, without a doubt lead to you being worse than you were before. Even doctors admit that more than 50% of cancers could be wiped out simply by changing our lifestyle choices, like smoking. Its like we see all these people dying and suffering, we donate to causes, do runs or whatnot and then turn around and make things which add to the dying and suffering. And it being handmade or "artisan" somehow makes it not a part of the big picture. I used to smoke, but that was because i was young and stupid and fell for the marketing and saw others do it. It doesn't matter if it was a cigarette or a handmade pipe, I was also part of it, not only adding that much more toxic stuff into me, but being a walking promotion for this business. Life is life, and people do what they choose to do, like you, but I just wish your amazing creativity and passion could be used to make our world just a little bit better.

jalanpipes I mean imagine if you created funky prosthetics for amputees, or one of a kind wooden iphone cases encrusted with golden cat pictures, or desktop lamps which the hipster would be very much interested in... im just babbling, but imagine how much good you can do with your talent

jalanpipes You can dress it up as some dreamworld where you are doing this magnificant magical service to people and bringing them together and connecting them. Ultimately you are just carving a wood cigarette.

How very kind of you to say.

The pipe gives no cancer. What the end user uses it for is their priority. Also pipesmokers are much less prone to lung cancer than regular smokers.

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