Materials
The Briar
Each Geiger pipe is made out of at least 3-year dry plateaux. I get briar from various countries and places wherever the highest quality can be found, Corsica, Italy, Calabria , Algeria and spain to mention some...I truly love briar and the varity of grain it holds and spend a lot of time examinig blocks to see what forms do them the best.
The Stems
We make stems out of High grade German ebonite and cumberland rods. and in rare causes in faux amber.
Each stem is drilled with a conical bore starting at 4mm in the Tenon and narrowing down to 2mm right before the slit.
The slit is formed like a V and is drilled around 15mm deep.
It is 7mm wide and 1,8mm in height.
This allows for a nice open draw.
Our stems are designed to be comfortable clenchers and the area where you bite is filed down to 3,5mm to reduce saliva production and enhance mouth comfort with rare exeptions for larger pipes with more weight.
The tennon is carefully turned and sanded up to 2500 grit to fit the mortise presisley without being too loose or tight.
sometimes the tennon is made out of Delrin or stainless steel when the engeneering requires it and in other cases an Itergral tennon.
Decorations
As
shank and stem adournments we use different exotic and local woods Bone
and Ivory and precious metals all the beauty nature can provide!! Some
favourites are:
Boxwood, Mazur birch,olivewood and ebony Mammuth ivory, Sterling silver
The list continues to grow...
Some of our different finishes
Below you can se some of our different finishing teqniques..
Nomenclature
Our pipes are stamped Geiger sweden and with the year of Making
