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I've never had a good experience with wooden pieces, and I've owned two. One was this crazy Transformer-type monstrosity that could work as a chillum, two different kinds of pipes, and a "bubbler". I put the quotation marks in there because the day after I tried putting water in the chamber all of the glue got messed up and the thing started to fall apart. Eventually all I had left was the chamber, which makes a pretty nice stash case. It got thrown out not too long ago 'cause I wasn't using it.

My other wooden pipe...well, it's not QUITE wooden, but used wood resin. Very cool looking thing, but after a few days of blazing the bowl fell out (it had a seperate metal bowl), and I've yet to fandangle it into something usable. It's currently taking up space in my backpack.

In short, wooden pipes suck. Tobacco pipes with metal/ceramic bowls, however, do not, except for the fact that they require more cleaning than your usual glass piece. I've got a pretty nice one that I call BGOT, named after the conversation me and the guy at the headshop had while I was buying it. He was like "I love this pipe, 'cause you can say anything and so long as you're holding it right you can sound intelligent." Then he picked up the piece, gestured like your classic 50s all-American father, and said "Did you know, that bacon, grows on trees?". I bought it immediately, and it was dubbed Bacon Grows On Trees, or BGOT for short ('BGOT' is pronounced as 'bigot')