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Peace pipe
BowEd:
Nice pipe and stem bjrogg.Does that soapstone work with a file and drill like pipestone?I imagine it does.Got a pipe here too.Sumac stem/pipestone bowl.A bit of investigation on my part showed me a mallards' crest[the green top knot] put on the stem symbolized the 4 winds from the birds migrating etc.Ceremonies like the blessing of a lodge are cool to go to.
bjrogg:
Thanks Ed, I might have wrong name for stone. I think you refreshed my memory and this is pipe stone. It works easily with tools. I have some other stuff that is a lot harder. Frank said I'd have to carve it with diamond tool but it would hold much more details. I would like to research more on actual peace pipes and learn their symbols, l'm sure I would enjoy a ceremony like a lodge blessing
Bjrogg
Redhand:
I would think that soapstone would be a little easier to work than pipestone. At least the pipestone I work. Bjrogg if you try the Russian Olive start from the tip and work your way to the base that's if your using wire and heat to put your hole through the pipe.
bjrogg:
Thanks for the tip about the heated wire Redhand, I'll have to give that a try next time.
Bjrogg
BowEd:
Natural pipe stems with a pith to burn out are nice but not the only way of course.2 halves carved out and glued together are done too.The ceremony I went to was done in the tipi.The sod that was removed for the fire pit is flipped over backwards from door and set right next to the fire pit.That is always done that way.That is the alter and sitting behind that is the place of honor or ownership with people sitting around the fire.The pipe is lit then past to the heart side or the left from the owner in a semi circle.The pipe is passed back the reverse route back to owner the route it came from and not across the doorway.
A tidbit....Getting the pith out of your stem was done using a wood eating bug with a hot ember behind it to make it work faster....lol.Otherwise a red hot tipped wire does the job sufficiently.
The book Mystic Warriors of the Plains is a great book about these things.
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