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A smoking pipe can be a birch pipe, a corn cob, or a meerschaum. Experienced smokers say that a pipe is not considered cheap or expensive – it’s either a good smoke or not. Corn cob pipes are inexpensive and available in several different styles.

A beginning pipe smoker could afford to buy two or three types of these pipes and experiment with all of them. This way you can discover what you like about a pipe style. When you’re ready to buy your own birch you’ll know exactly what to look for.

A smoking pipe has several parts to it: lip, bit, stem, filter, shank, and bowl/chamber. The bowl is where the tobacco is burned. The shank is the part of the bowl used to “neck the pipe down.” The stem meets the shank via a mortise and tenon joint. The lip is the raised ring around the stem. The filter is a metal piece attached inside the stem.

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