Churchwarden Tomahawk - 13" / Cherry

First of all, this is a beautiful churchwarden pipe. All of the archs, flats, faces and points in its shaping are executed as well as any high end briar or meerschaum I own. It smokes exceptionally well for a "lesser" pipe, and contrary to one of the q&a posts, it stays much cooler than any of 50+ aged briar pipes I own. It has a good size bowl, but not a large bowl. It will hold enough for a good 30-45 minute smoke. Very light and comfortable in the hand, but I dont recommend clenching or biting the stem as you will certainly leave marks. Now, pleasantries out of the way, there are some things the buyer needs to know. 1. While it is a solid pipe that does not come apart, it is NOT one piece of wood...its 3. The bowl is one, and stem is 2 halves down the length that are glued together. While some people say this makes the pipe worthless and unsmokeable, that is not true. Many pipes contain glues. As long as the bowl is a single unglued piece it is fine.....but you need to be aware of glue points and seems to avoid damaging them. 2. THIS IS NOT A WEED PIPE! I cant stress this enough. People who want to smoke weed need to stick to glass pipes and leave fine wood pipes alone. Ripping on a wood pipe while smoking weed causes the bowl to get far too hot and does immense damage to both your pipe and lungs with every hit. If this pipe gets too hot, the urathane coating will fail and peel off as well as bowl burning up and becoming cherry charcoal over a longer period. Inhaling wood smoke causes death people.....wake up and stop being idiots. 3. The "starter" cake coating in the bowl may be fine for the beginner pipe smoker, but if you are a seasoned pipe enthusiast I recommend reaming it out and beginning your own cake with a fresh bowl. This will allow for proper seasoning of the pipe and provide good heat resistance. 4. Churchwarden pipe cleaners are not long enough. As I have found with a few 16 inch wardens I own, you can use a guitar string twisted inline with a cleaner to make a proper length cleaning wand. You can also use the guitar string to easily break up any clogging, though this is very very rare when smoking proper pipeweed as there it no resin. Lesser tobacco or cigarette tobacco will cause clogging, and therefore you will need the guitar string. All things considered, this is a beautiful and finely executed churchwarden worthy of any pipe enthusiast, pipe collector, pipeweed connoisseur, LOTR fanboy or person who simply wants to plant himself on the ground under the old tree out back and smoke away his cares away in true halfling/wizard fashion. Update: I have now been smoking this pipe for several weeks and have found that as the bowl becomes more seasoned it will get hotter in the hand. Some spots get too hot to touch and have left the face (outside portion facing away from the stem) of the bowl black! This indicates that the wood is burning out and is too soft to be a regular use pipe unless you are ok with replacing it after maybe a year at most. Still no moisture issues or wet smoking. I still love this pipe and will smoke it literally to death. Smoke it. Enjoy it. Replace it when it fails. That's what it's meant for. These are not complaints, this is consumer information.

It's a great pipe just as I imagined. It has a smooth draw. A nice finish on the wood. Beautiful pipe. Really makes me feel lotr vibes

I might this after being without Internet from hurricanes and watching way too much lord of the rings. Yes, it's not too quality. But it is actually a great pipe. The first few times you get some chemical burnoff. But once you both off the finish in the bowl this thing provides a very smooth cool smoke. I even used some stuff called super value poor tobacco and still smooth and cool. The downside is the hole was a little offset so the pipe cracked after a few used of biting down and holding it with just my teeth, but for the price, I'll buy another, and another. I've been enjoying like tobacco in and off for over 20 years, this really is one of my favorite pipes. I do get some weird looks when I'm sitting in traffic and I light it up after a 12 hour shift. I rarely review things, but thought this was for sure worth my input. It's not a high dollar pipe, but for the price I was only expecting a decoration. Once the chemical burnoff I was way wrong. I have pipes that cost a lot more and this thing blows them out of the water as far as cool smooth smoking. Now I know why Gandalf was a fan of the pipe weed. Lol

Excellent pipe. Smokes very clean and smooth.

I love this pipe. It's beautiful and well made. It hits really nice and it's comfortable to hold. I get a lot of compliments from people. My only complaints would be that it clogs easily and it's hard to clean. I bought really long pipe cleaners for it but I can't get them all the way through the pipe. Because I can't clean it properly, I don't use it very often. I worry about it clogging and not being able to clear it. My other issue is that it doesn't stand up so I have to find a way to prop it up with stuff on my table or just hold on to it forever. They do sell the same pipe with a pipe holder (I didn't know that when I bought it) but they do not sell the holder by itself.

Top notch quality on this. The size and look is perfect for my renaissance gear setup.

I love this pipe! It comes with a tool that works for poking, packing, and scooping. As well as some cleaning items and instructions. The only thing I'd mention that didn't bother me but might bother someone else is that, it's a solid piece. The mouth piece/neck doesn't come off the bowl. I didn't expect it to come off or anything so I'm not disappointed. In the instructions, it mentions removing that piece to clean it but it doesn't come off, so I dunno When I used it, I really got a wood burning taste but it was kinda tasty. When it came in, it looked like it had some kind of finishing in the bowl to protect the wood from burning but maybe I mistook it for something else I'm going to look for a stand for for it though because I don't know where to put it. I want it it on display so I don't want to keep it in that box they came with it. The box is nice but I take it out so often to be shown off, it needs to be displayed

A nice looking and good smoking pipe, however, it has a tendency to get really hot in the front of the bowl, and the stem cracked within a couple of days. It’s really more of a conversational piece and a Semi functional wall hanger, Definitely not your daily pipe.