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There are old masters of pipe
makers who live in
towns of Saint Cloud, on the foots of Jura Mt., in
France. First they produced pipes with commercial
purpose, which they used mud,
cooked with fire,
as the material of
pipes; however being
very
sensitive to fire, clay warmed up too much and got
distorted quickly. Hereupon,
some investigations
about wood that is done in Saint Claude,
which is
famous about its furniture, bring up the matter that
Erica Arborea has a fireproof and self defending
system. Then between 1855 and 1859 Erica has
been accepted for being the best material in lieu of
pipes that made by mud. Datas
are extant on City
Library, France. In addition
to that
there
are
records of a Frenchman
(Francois COMOY )
producing pipes.
Francois COMOY set up his
workshop
which
contains pipes made of mud at 1825.
His work
continued
for
23
years
, and
gained
a
new
dimension with usage of the Erica Arborea in
making of pipe by Comoy’s son. With this the
history of Erica Pipe has begun. Due to a new
investigation , it is reported that a master named
Ulysse COURRIEU, lives in Cogolin Town, Saint
Tropez, has been using this root in making of pipe
since 1802.
Besides it is known that this is used
widely
in
Scandinavian
countries
(Holland,
England, Denmark, Ireland)
and
countries next
to North Glaciers
, after years of 1900s.
Erica Arborea is the main
material of pipe. Being
a shrub tree, Erica isn’t an absolute tree at all. It is
more likely to a brush which
has lots of branches.
It is a plant whose height lengthens to 410 meter
and it
has
a
very
hard
and
porous
root.
Surprisingly this plants erica has a breathing,
i.e.
regenerating structure.
It takes a long time for erica
changing to a pipe and
needs difficult
processes
during
this
change.
Because of the hard structure of the erica it is hard
to work
with it, just
like
taking out the
erica
correctly from the soil. This erica isn’t venous like
other
trees,
i.e.
it
is in
fibres and has
a
dense
structure. The veins are up the erica, that
is they
are
in
body
and branches
. The
erica
forms a
structure which is hard and slippery as glass named
Quartz, by itself. So it is
the most
important one
of the
plants that are densely
available on
earth.
Also it has some
specialities
that
increase
fire
endurance. The tree produces the erica in time and
as we mentioned before it ends up its development
in 10-12 years
. A good tree may not be a good
pipe sometimes. An experienced pipe user would
not buy pipes due to colour, view, package or
glow of the
pipe. Don’t
forget
that
the design,
pureness, clearness and being the most important
one got orderly holed
of
the pipe (tree) are more
important specialities than the other ones.
ATTENTION !!!
While smoking the pipe , unlike
the cigarette , the pipes smoke
MUST NOT BE INHALED.
One must only
circulate the smoke in mouth to
take feel the taste of tobacco and never inhale
the smoke in. If you inhale the smoke while
smoking, to say nothing of the health effects,
you would not get the real taste of pipe
smoking and it wouldn’t be a pipe smoking
work at all.
“ It is a convenances work to smoke the pipe as is a
merry work too. As a matter of fact being a legend,
the special history of pipe is very old. Due to Greek
Mythology, Epimetheus gets really attracted from the
smell of fire that his brother Prometheus stole from the
gods, as he starts to inhale it with a straw stalk. And
the two brothers punished by the gods because of
trying to take something that is peculiar to gods.
Widening of the pipe has
occurred in Continent of
America.
After
Colombo, with
Spanish and
Portuguese sailors; clay, stone and bone made pipes
of indigenous have been carried to Europe. At that
time butternut squash, coconut shell, bone, corncobs,
nutshell and porcelain were the main materials used
in pipe production. Nowadays the most popular are
ones that made from Erica Arborea and from parts
without snag. Peculiar to Mediterranean coasts, “Erica Arborea” gets removed from ground at first.
These roots which
are between 30 and 200 years
old gets cleaned, get cut due to the shape they will
take in the future, get put in the oven to bake and
gets dried in a natural environment. The pipes that
made of light coloured eggs is widely accepted.”
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ABOUT
THE PIPE
Firstly seen in one of the frescos
in Pompei, pipe
has been
founded many years ago
than tobacco.
Lots of pipes which are made of clay and iron by
Celts
are
found
in
Europe, as
well as
U.S.A.
(Delaware). Although pipe has widened after to
tobacco’s appearing. Very big and stone made
pipes in Africa, elegant pipes to smoke hashish in
East, pipes and hookahs in Iran and Turkey, and
ball ringlets in Europe. There were pipe factories
in Great Britain and Holland at 1625.
Many
kinds
of
materials
are
used
in
pipe
production. The main production canters of the
pipes made of baked clay in France were Givet,
Saint Omer, Marseille
and Nimes. Rod
and
hookah were also made from baked clay. Being
wide
in
Middle
Europe
and
Alsace in our time,
the
porcelain
pipe
was
found
by an Austrian
Doctor named Jacob Vilarus. Magnezit, which
can be found on Anatolia, is used in meerschaum
pipe producing, these usually had circles, made
of amber,on their mouth. There were pipes which
are made of leaden, ivory, amber, glass, silver,
corn lug. But the most commonly used tree in pipe
producing is, white shrub root which is imported
from especially Mediterranean Region, more then
that from Algeria and Constantine.
The
main
processes
that
must be done in pipe
production are: calibrating, making
draft and
piercing, cutting the crucible, planning, passing
from milling cutter, piercing the lug and planning
the head for the last
. Pipe can be painted or not,
it gets varnished, shined, marked and a Perspex
or amber circle gets put on the pipe. Saint Claude
is famous for pipes made of amber roots.
In the past and even now many
kinds of
materials
are used
in
pipe production.
Meerschaum and
Erica Arborea are
materials
that are most
commonly
used
in our time.
However in addition
to that there are
some
other
materials used in
production of pipes.
One of them is
:
the
Glass
Pipes .
Glass pipes, are generally used as
decoration
stuff
because of their colours and views. It is
generally
not preferred by pipe
smokers.
But it has some
few users at all. Pipe lovers
prefers collecting pipes
than smoking them.
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“
Put
down that cigarette, he said. You light it,
smoke half of it and you throw off it like a hooker…
These
are shameful things to do!
Marry with pipe! She is a faithful woman
.
She waits
still
for you up to your return
.
”
( Nikos
KAZANCAKİS, ZORBA,
Page 57,
translated from Can Publishing
Turkish Edition )
It
was an old tradition of Englishman ; a sword and
a
pipe
set were given to noble family’s male children
as a
gift , when they step into awkward age.
The
pipe set that was a gift for child, was given to
an
attendant
when the noble child was
born and it
is wanted
from the attendant to
use the set
.
The
aim was to develop the ability of
poison assimilation
of the pipe that was used by the attendant for years
and make it saved from the taste of nettle
. Up to
child’s
growth
the
pipe
was getting
ready for
a
healthy
smoking
by
this
method.
The
nobleman’s youth son, who reaches
the age
of
pipe
smoking, was having a good
pipe set
without
breaking
a
sweat
at
all.
(
BAY PiPO
, Page 13 , Soner Yalçın
/
Doğan
Yurdakul
–
Doğan
Publishing
)
("http://aksamgezmesi.tripod.com" dan alınmıştır.)
First of one must be really careful while buying a pipe.
Buying a high quality pipe is a good investment for the
future. If your pipe is light weighted, it shows that it
will be a good smoking with that pipe. You must select
at least 7 pipes and should smoke them according to
the place you use. You must also make the pipe rest
for 7 days after smoking in order to be sure that the
pores of the briar that is filled with moisture would
gain the old smoking quality again. Otherwise it will
make moisture and would
give
you a bitter taste
.
Filling the tobacco is also important. If you feel that it
is getting hard to smoke that day , put off it and don’t
smoke on that day if possible. There can be some
warm up at the bowl. In order to prevent the warming
it is important to select a good tobacco and make it
burned well. Before burning the tobacco it must be
compressed well
. You can control this with your
breath. While burning the pipe you should use special
pipe lighter or match. Otherwise you would burn your
hand or the briar. With an air hole on the center of the
pipe, you should take the fire out. Also you can use
meerschaum grid
filters
after putting
the
tobacco in
the
bowl. Prefer this filter as a second method. Metal
filtered old pipes may make moisture. So you should
prefer
pipes
with active systems
. This is why
their
smoke would make less moisture
, they prevent fire
and tobacco cuts come to your mouth, reduces the
tobacco’s harm to minimum. Normally you should
every
time
change the filter after smoking.
Don’t
forget that right along with the importance of health,
active filters saves tobacco loss. You must fill a new
taken pipe by 1/3
and
should rise it by time. After
10-15 times you can fill it fully. If you put honey to a
new pipe it may give a nice smell to pipe and would
make it dry faster
. In addition to these clearing the pipe is also a very important
work. Every time dry
the
tobacco
bowl
and
ebonite
part
by
cotton
cleaners, after
smoking. Also every
time
after
smoking the pipe put
the
warm ebonite part
away from the pipe in order to prevent it from slackening.
While cleaning your pipe , pay attention not to take
the stem part away by circling it right and left. Don’t
hit your pipes o hard things while cleaning it. Using
the special pipe ashtray, fitted with cork, is the best
thing to do. By the time there will occur some carbon
cake in the pipe. The cake which thickness is 1mm is
normal. When you feel that the inner wall is getting
narrow which means the carbon cake is exceeding
1mm
never
use knife, jacknife or any sharp tool
.Any damage in the briar, may get the briar burned
.
Use the special pipe reamer. We must not forget that
pipe
looks
like
a car
without
rubber
and
engine,
when it is alone. If you have cleaning tools
, pipe
reamer pipe pouche, pipe spoon, pipe tamper,
pipe
stand, pipe rack
and
filter
then
your
set
will
be
perfect. This materials will make your pipe smoking
good and also will extend the life of the pipe. Always
smoke your pipe in a good
time
. Then the pipe willbe a good friend for you. To mention that both pipe
and cigarette must not be smoked at the same time.
Pipe will give you less harm than the cigarette and will
save
your
money. Also
the
preservation
of
the
tobacco
is important. Humidifying leather, caoutchouc,
porcelain
or
something
like
these
which
would
prevent
the pipe from
taking
air
must
not
be
used. Pipes
can
be
damaged
due to
their
materials
and
fault
in smoking. Don’t try to repair the damages by
yourself
, always make the
professionals
look
it.
Protect your pipe from cologne, alcohol, hot water,
direct sunlight and spotlight
. We would be happy if
you
don’t
smoke
pipe
while
driving
car
.
"THIS IS NOT A PIPE
"
named picture.
“Pipe
is
a
tool
of
smoking
the
tobacco. It is
composed of
two
parts, one is a dish shaped part
that the tobacco puts in and the other one is a lug
that the smoke inhales in. If the dish part is made of
clay, corncob, meerschaum etc then the most
common material is the Breuer named wood that
obtained from the roots of tree shrub, rhododendron.
Smoking tobacco with pipe firstly seen at America
Region because of the rites made in Mexico. In the
northern parts the American indigenous were using
some rite pipes; but the most important was the piece
rod. Decorated
by horse hair
these
pipes
dishes
were
made
from
marble or steatite ,
and they had
75 – 100 cm lugs made from ash-tree. The habit of
pipe smoking has been bring
to
Europe by
sailors
who
journey
to
and
from
Loquat.”
(
Encyclopaedia Britannica
Volume 17 – Page 621,
Encyclopaedia Britannica, INC.
)
ATTENTION !!!
While smoking the pipe , unlike
the cigarette , the pipes smoke
MUST NOT BE INHALED.
One must only
circulate the smoke in mouth to
take feel the taste of tobacco and never inhale
the smoke in. If you inhale the smoke while
smoking, to say nothing of the health effects,
you would not get the real taste of pipe
smoking and it wouldn’t be a pipe smoking
work at all.
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