The "Ageless" pipe tamper is my own custom creation which started as an idea and reached its conclusion to what you see now. Genuine 15,000 year old Mammoth ivory crowns this magnificent pipe tamper. The tamper end, threaded shaft, and tobacco pick is aerospace grade titanium. What's so special about titanium? Well, it's very light, strong, corrosion resistant, and weighs half of what steel and brass weigh. The wood is stabilized, exhibition grade olive wood from Greece. I was going to inlay the wood with a design but decided against it since the olive grain is simply amaging! Height: 3-1/4 inches, weight: 19 grams.

"the Siberian" pipe tamper is my own custom creation which started as an idea and reached its conclusion to what you see now. Genuine "mammoth" ivory crowns this magnificent pipe tamper. I also incorporated the use of Gabon instrument grade ebony and stabilized ash burl wood. Height: 3-1/2 inches with internal stainless steel pick. The tamper end and thread is solid machined brass.

I crafted this tamper from a solid piece of African Macassar wood and added the handstamped gothic sterling silver accents you see in the picture (there are actually 2 sterling silver strips on either side of the tamper). The dual sided tampers are surgical stainless steel and they incorporate an integrated internal tamper pick. Overall tamper length: 4 inches. Highly polished with carnauba wax.

The name: "Big Mac" was suggested by a fellow client who purchased this tamper...thanks Gary from Alabama!

Every now and then I make a pipe tamper that challenges me. This tamper is an excellent example of that design intent challenge. No expenses were spared making this aerospace grade titanium, 10,000 year old amber, 15,000 year old mammoth ivory, and silver pipe tamper. Allow me to describe this masterpiece to you: Length: 3.5 inches, titanium tamper diameter: 1/2 inch.

The tamper body is pure Baltic amber. What is amber?? ..Baltic amber is fossil resin produced by pine trees which grew in Northern Europe about 50 million years ago. The resin was washed out of the forest floor by large rivers and transported towards the sea. In the course of time the resin was transformed to amber due to processes of polymerisation and oxidation. The Amber material I use for my pipe tampers I cut, shape, and polish. Sandwiched between each amber segment is a sterling silver divider. The connector between the titanium tamper and amber is  pure 15,000 year old mammoth ivory from Siberia. As a finishing touch, I included a very subtle pure turquoise inlay in one amber segment, the results are truly dramatic and beautiful! The lucky new owner will get their initial's engraved in the titanium *gratis*. 

Please note that this piece takes aprox 1-2 weeks to fabricate, this is one of the more challenging pieces I create.