Briar wood for tobacco pipes

 

(tobaccopipes.com)Have you ever wondered why tobacco pipes are made out of briar wood?
For those of us who know our pipe history, we know it wasn’t always that way. Tobacco pipes were made from stone, clay, other woods and meerschaum long before the first carver ever set knife to briar. But once he did, well, the pipe world would never be the same. Continued