Hand Carved Wood Calabash Meerschaum Pipe

Hand Carved Wood Calabash Meerschaum Pipe

Things You Should Know Before Ordering Hand Carved Wood Calabash Meerschaum Pipe

• Our meerschaum materials are from Eskisehir.

Product Specifications

• Pipe Stem: Bent.
• Material: Block Meerschaum

We are producing perfect meerschaum for you ! Ready to smoke. When smoked, meerschaum pipes gradually change color, and old meerschaum pipes will turn incremental shades of yellow, orange, red, and amber from the base on up. When prepared for use as a pipe, the natural nodules are first scraped to remove the red earthy matrix, then dried, again scraped and polished with wax.

You will get your Hand Carved Wood Calabash pipe with its special pipe box. A nice gift for your favorite pipe smoker. Wonderfully carved, high-quality Authentic meerschaum, Hand Carved Wood Calabash.

What is Meerschaum?

Meerschaum is a very rare mineral, a kind of hard white clay. Light and porous structure of the pipe keeps the smoke cool and soft. The pipe itself is a natural filter which absorbs the nicotine. Meerschaum is the most flavorful and beautiful pipe you can own.
Because of this peculiarity, meerschaum pipes slowly change their colors to different tones of gold and dark brown. This adds an esthetic enjoyment to its great smoking pleasure. The pipe changes color when smoked for a long time. Today many old and rare meerschaums have found a permanent place in museums and private collections.

Meerschaum pipes are generally produced from a block that was sourced from Turkey/Eskişehir. It comes out from a depth of 380 meters. Block mined at greater depths is very high quality, while block that is located closer to ground level is of poorer quality.

Pipes are made of high-quality Eskisehir Meerschaum which is very well known by experts. Unlike briar, meerschaum does not burn. Meerschaum pipes do not need pre-smoking to have a good quality performance. You can get perfect satisfaction with the very first smoking. Hand Carved Wood Calabash is best choice for you.

Thanks to the absorbent properties of meerschaum, there is no need to dry it after each smoke. Thus, you can easily drink it many times a day. This is the biggest feature that distinguishes it from Briar pips. Every pipe comes in a completely custom fitted case. All mouthpieces and pipe-cases are handmade individually after the production of the pipes. Remember that our pipes are handmade by masters.