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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.

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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.

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.

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.  

 “ 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  )
 

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“ 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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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 will
be 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 .
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.

"THIS IS NOT A PIPE "
  named picture.


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“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. )
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