Okay so I have two - a cold beer and smoking a good pipe tobacco. Sure I have a few pipes but recently had to trim a crabapple tree and saw a perfect limb to try to "carve" into a pipe for gardening work. Never want to take a good pipe in to the garden - drop it too often.
Drilled out the bowl and had to look around for a mouthpiece. Elderberry is the top choice - but no elderberry in my yard. But I do have forsythia, which like elderberry has an inner pith that can easily be reamed out.
Result:
It smokes great - and if I drop it or lose it - I can always make another!
Heck - may make a few more just for the novelty.
