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[[Image: | [[Image:Morta tobacco pipe.JPG|thumb|Morta Pipe]] | ||
[[Morta]], also known as Bog Oak or Abonos, is another form of wood used to make tobacco pipes. | |||
This wood, however, has been preserved by being buried in peat bogs, sometimes for hundreds of years or more. | |||
The material represents the early stages of wood's fossilization, and as a result the material is nearly 12% mineral in content, making it highly resistant to burnout. | |||
It is also praised for a neutral taste caused by the removal of all tannins, resins and the like from the wood during its long period of submersion. | |||
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[[ | Several pipe makers are using [[Morta]], which is an excellent material for pipe making. | ||
[[Morta]], or bog oak, is partially petrified oak that comes from trees that have fallen into peat bogs. | |||
Being buried in the peat bog preserves the wood from decay due to the bog's acidity and anaerobic conditions. | |||
Over the course of time, tannins are leached out, leaving the wood in the early stages of fossilization. | |||
If the process continues, the wood would eventually turn into lignite and coal, a process that takes millions of years. | |||
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Image:Morta_br.jpg|thumb|Brown Morta, courtesy of [[Hermann Hennen]] | |||
Image:Morta_sz.jpg|thumb|Black Morta, courtesy of [[Hermann Hennen]] | |||
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[[Trever Talbert]], maker of "The Scallop", a beautiful example of a Morta pipe pictured below, has made Morta a regular part of his work. Examples of Trever's Morta pipes can be seen in [http://talbertpipes.com/mortagallery.shtml Trever's Morta Pipe Gallery]. Trever also describes the process of finding, harvesting, curing, and making pipes from Morta in [[Creating Pipes From Morta]]. | |||
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Image:Trevertalbert4.jpg|thumb|right|300px|[[Trever Talbert]] Morta | |||
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Black Morta pipes by [[Davorin]] | [[Davorin]] is a pipemaker from Croatia who is also using Morta on a regular basis. He explains the material in his article [https://davorinmortapipes.com/what-is-abonos-morta/ What is abonos – morta?]. In addition to black morta, Davorin uses "Copper" and "Golden" Morta. | ||
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Copper Morta pipes by [[Davorin]] | <gallery widths=300 heights=200 caption="Copper Morta pipes by [[Davorin]]"> | ||
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Image:Josef Prammer Pipe04.jpg|left|thumb|Morta Pipes, courtesy of [[Josef Prammer]] | |||
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