Not Worth Any Price
Don't buy this pipe unless it's ONLY for display. It looks good, but if you're a pipe smoker, you'll be disappointed, frustrated, and angry!<br />1) To start with, the product description would lead one to believe that the bowl --while not meerschaum-- is porcelain, as in fine china tea cup. Not so! To be sure, it IS porcelain but not like fine china; it is more like a porcelain bathroom fixture. The bowl itself weighs 5.5 ounces (164 grams); that's about a third of a pound! Without using your hand to hold it up while smoking, you must clench your teeth really tight around the bit. The rest of the pipe is lightweight for a total of 7 ounces (198 grams).<br />2) When I started trying to smoke this pipe, the smoke wouldn't draw. There were leaks where the bowl rests on the body, where the stem screws into the body, and where the bit fits into the stem. I was able to fix that as follows: I used Teflon white plumbers tape on the threads on the porcelain, the threads on the screw-in stem, and the bit where it fits into the stem. I also used white casein glue (kid's glue or carpenter's glue) between the bowl and the Wax Berry body. (The Teflon there was to keep the glue out of the threads so if I ever wanted to get it apart again, I could.) After that, I was reasonably happy with my pipe; it smoked fairly well for about a month. Then, ...<br />3) I got out my pipe, filled it with tobacco, clenched it in my teeth around the bit to light it, and the stem broke off completely, left hanging only by the plumbers tape!<br />Though I'm loath to throw the pipe away after all that trouble, I think I will.
Rating: 1 stars