Türkçe Pipo Ansiklopedisi Dizin

Cherry, apple, olive, walnut, maple, hawthorn and many other hardwoods can be turned into pipe bowls; this article gathers how non-briar species behave in terms of weight, workability, and heat resistance.

What sets the BriarWorks workshop in Tennessee apart is that the lathes shaping its pipes weren't bought off the shelf — they were designed and built in-house; the founding story traces back to an abandoned plan for a factory in China.

Terms proposed for classifying calabash-style pipes carved from briar: top bowl, sunken cup, bell, and straight body. The criterion is the height at which the bowl sits on the gourd-and-meerschaum pipe's body.

Lovat, Prince, Oom Paul, Canadian: where the names of briar pipe shapes come from, which ones actually describe the shape, and why the industry eventually abandoned names for numbers.

The drying and purifying process a briar burl goes through from the moment it's pulled from the ground to the point it becomes a block ready for working; air curing, kiln drying, and oil curing methods.

The ebauchon and plateaux forms of briar blocks used in pipe making, and how much the channels through which blocks reach the workshop reveal about the wood's history.

A briar pipe made entirely by a single maker was, half a century ago, confined to a handful of European towns. According to a count compiled in 2025, briar pipe makers now work in sixty-two countries.