Meerschaum tobacco pipes have been famous, and prized for several centuries. The professional carvers of Eskisehir, near where the meerschaum is mined, are true sculptors-in-miniature.Meerschaum pipes smoke cool and dry because meerschaum, a soft, po …

If you’ve bought more than a few pipes in your pipe smoking life then you’ve probably seen a mis-drilled pipe bowl. The most common type of mis-drilling is where the airway into the bottom of the bowl is higher than the actual bowl bottom. Sometim …