What Is A Wooden Smoking Pipe?

 The foundation of this section comes from Wikipedias entry on smoking pipes (tobacco). A tobacco pipe, commonly called just pipe, is a device designed to smokable tobacco. 

A wooden smoking pipe brings some unique elements to the smoking experience. Wooden pipes have been used for thousands of years, and they are an excellent addition to any smoking collection. Wooden pipes give off a certain earthy flavor when you smoke it by passing it through wood. 

While our wood pipes will indeed burn slowly and eventually deplete your pipes, that burn contributes to the flavor of your smoke and is the sought-after part of the smoking experience for many. A well-crafted wooden pipe allows for a portable smoke session, making it an ideal option if you mostly smoke water pipes. Because wooden bowls sometimes get slightly burned, wooden pipes impart a milder flavouring on the material you are smoking. 

Each material makes for a unique smoking experience, so picking up glass, metal, and wood pipes may make for different experiences when you are smoking the same herbs or tobacco. We use only the finest quality woods, meaning that when you pick a wood pipe at Smoke Day, you are going to be treated to a great smoking experience. Turning briarwood into your favourite wooden tobacco pipe is an art Mr.Brog takes great pride in. Briar is so widely accepted as the best wood to create a tobacco pipe for it is properties. 

Morta, also known as Bog Oak or Abonos, is another form of wood used for making tobacco pipes. Tobacco pipe bowls are usually made from Briar Wood, Meerschaum, Corncob, Pear Wood, Rosewood, or Clay. Due to the intense (heated) smoking, imperfections in the wood may cause holes in briar pipes to be burned into the chambers. A well-smoked, properly maintained briar pipe should improve in flavor and smoking quality with only time. 

Smoking pipes is not like smoking cigarettes, so you want to avoid taking the smoke in to your lungs, because the tobacco is stronger and is enjoyed more by flavor rather than by smoke. With a wooden pipe, you can breathe in smoke in the mouth, and exhale afterwards. We also recommend leaving some tobacco on the bottom of the pipe, rather than smoking straight to the bottom of your bowl. Part of smoking your pipe is taking time out of it to enjoy your tobacco. 

When you smoke a pipe, the moisture in the tobacco is released through the heat. Metal pipes usually include means to trap moisture, which cools down the smoke before it gets to the mouth. You might find you only enjoy smoking one particular tobacco flavor in a pipe, or that you assign the various pipes you have to varying blends of tobacco. The next time you wish to step it up a notch and try out this artform of smoking tobacco, perhaps with some whisky, we have created the Essential Tobacco Smoking Guide to guide you on your way.