A Red Hot Poker

Blessed Christmas to all and happy feast of St. John the Evangelist. Thank you all for your support throughout my first year as a pipe maker, especially those who feed me ideas and those who purchased a pipe. Several of my pipes have sold through Tewksbury, and I am very grateful to Dave, Brian and Gwyneth of the before mentioned store for all their support and input. I don't know yet what the new year will bring but I look forward to new and refined ideas,

I decided to play around with a bit of a simpler design. This tobacco pipe has elegance in its design and fire in its heart. The red dye I found is so brilliant and striking that it leaps off the pipe and draws the eye in.

The Magnus Pipe

I have begun a new chapter in my life this Christmas as I began to carve tobacco pipes. It all started because we didn't know what to get for my brother in law Josh. We had been encouraging his wife to get him a pipe but she wasn't interested in getting one for him. We asked her if she minded him having one and when she responded that she didn't mind, the gears started clicking. I didn't really have a whole lot of cash to throw down for a good starter pipe so when I found some replacement stems at a local pipe shop for under three dollars I knew I had to give it a try.