![]() Unusual pipe materials include gourds (as in the famous calabash pipe) and pyrolytic graphite. Pipe bowls are sometimes decorated by carving, and moulded clay pipes often had simple decoration in the mould. Minerals such as catlinite and soapstone have also been used. Less common materials include other dense-grained woods such as cherry, olive, maple, mesquite, oak, and bog-wood. The bowls of tobacco pipes are commonly made of briar wood, meerschaum, corncob, pear-wood, rose-wood or clay. Known as the bore (10), the inner shaft of this second section stays uniform throughout while the outer stem tapers down to the mouthpiece or bit (8) held in the smoker's teeth, and finally ends in the "lip" (9), attenuated for comfort. At the end of the shank, the pipe's mortise (5) and tenon (6) join is an air-tight, simple connection of two detachable parts where the mortise is a hole met by the tenon, a tight-fitting "tongue" at the start of the stem (7). This draught hole (3), is for air flow where air has travelled through the tobacco in the chamber, taking the smoke with it, up the shank (4). Inside the bowl is an inner chamber (2) space holding tobacco pressed into it. On being sucked, the general stem delivers the smoke from the bowl to the user's mouth. The bowl (1) which is the cup-like outer shell, the part hand-held while packing, holding and smoking a pipe, is also the part "knocked" top-down to loosen and release impacted spent tobacco. The broad anatomy of a pipe typically comprises mainly the bowl and the stem. ![]() Parts of a pipe include the (1) bowl, (2) chamber, (3) draught hole, (4) shank, (5) mortise, (6) tenon, (7) stem, (8) bit (or mouthpiece), (9) lip, and (10) bore. ![]()
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