african meerschaum

[Nutiket_32]

i saw on smoking pipes that they have an estate pipe made of african meerschaum. does anybody have one of these? how is it different from turkish meerschaum?

[carbonbased_al]

I don't see any african meer on smokingpipes.com. Someone must have bought it.

[Nutiket_32]

yeah, i cant find it now

but for future reference, anyone know the difference?

[Fullbent]

May be of some help:

http://www.pipes2smoke.com/pipe_types.htm

[eventer289]

Originally Posted by Nutiket_32

yeah, i cant find it now

but for future reference, anyone know the difference?

Is this what you are talking about?

http://www.frenchyspipes.com/index.p...on=show_detail

[Nutiket_32]

Originally Posted by Fullbent

May be of some help:

http://www.pipes2smoke.com/pipe_types.htm

thanks for the link, that helped me out

[Nutiket_32]

Originally Posted by eventer289

Is this what you are talking about?

http://www.frenchyspipes.com/index.p...on=show_detail

similar, but not exactly the same

[Fullbent]

I've never owned an African meer, but a good friend of mine has one that is a charcoal grayish black. I asked him about it yesterday and he informed me that his has two aggrevating aspects. It softens/mutes the flavors of every genre of tobacco he has smoked in it and it gets very hot no matter how slow he smokes it. He has to sit it down to cool many times during every bowl for fear it may crack due to heat if he does not.