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Excerpt from [http://www.ebenharts.co.za/history_and_background.htm Ebenhart's Website] by | [[Image:African Blackwood.jpg|thumb|African Blackwood Pipe by [[Ebenhart Botha]]]] | ||
Excerpt from [http://www.ebenharts.co.za/history_and_background.htm Ebenhart's Website] by [[Ebenhart Botha]]: | |||
African Blackwood/Mpingo [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African_Blackwood (Dalbergia melanoxylon)] is an almost pitch black wood with a bright yellow outer layer, and has the highest density of all woods. This makes it extremely hard and durable, but also quite tricky to work with. | African Blackwood/Mpingo [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African_Blackwood (Dalbergia melanoxylon)] is an almost pitch black wood with a bright yellow outer layer, and has the highest density of all woods. This makes it extremely hard and durable, but also quite tricky to work with. | ||
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This wood will outlast Briar with at least three times the lifespan. It is however a rare and expensive wood, for a solid piece to make a pipe out of is rare. | This wood will outlast Briar with at least three times the lifespan. It is however a rare and expensive wood, for a solid piece to make a pipe out of is rare. | ||
Latest revision as of 00:16, 3 December 2022
Excerpt from Ebenhart's Website by Ebenhart Botha:
African Blackwood/Mpingo (Dalbergia melanoxylon) is an almost pitch black wood with a bright yellow outer layer, and has the highest density of all woods. This makes it extremely hard and durable, but also quite tricky to work with.
When a Briar pipe is smoked constantly, it becomes cloggy very quickly, and a foul taste appears shortly after lighting. This is not the case with Dalbergia for it is too hard and dense for that. A decently designed oil chamber takes care of that, and with the added help of a filtering system, a dry smoke is a certainty.
This wood will outlast Briar with at least three times the lifespan. It is however a rare and expensive wood, for a solid piece to make a pipe out of is rare.