Price is for 1 piece of insert

Turned pure raw genuine meerschaum blocks for turning in to fire chamber inserts for wooden pipes or building small pipes / objects. For larger solid blocks, check here:

Dimensions of the blocks are between 2,5 cm – 2,8 cm wide and 4,5- 5 cm long. Insulation quality of meerschaum makes these inserts suitable for up to 1,8 cm diameter and 4 - 4,5 cm deep fire chambers with any kind of wooden etc. stummel. Even with carefull drilling and with a heat resistant tenon, (as aluminum tenon listed on here)  these inserts can become excellent small smoking pipes themselves.

Reference squares on the photos are 1/2" - 1,25 cm

Block will be delivered dry. 

You can find some pipe stems here. 

If you going to drill or thread a tenon hole, do it when stone dry and keep the stone and drill bit strictly steady.

PLEASE CONSIDER THAT MEERSCHAUM IS A HIGHLY POROUS NATURAL MATERIAL. HOWEVER WE CHOOSE BEST RAW BLOCKS THAT EVERY MEERSCHAUM PIPE CARVING MASTER WILL DESIRE, SOME IMPERFECTIONS (WHICH DOESN'T EFFECTING FINAL PRODUCTS INTEGRITY) ARE INEVITABLE AND ACCEPTABLE.

For drilled but not carved as a stummel kit listings you can check here...  or here...

Freshly mined Meerschaum is fully saturated with moisture and it dries quickly. When it dries, it hardens. It is much easier and more effective to carve it wet. When wet, you can carve it like a bar of soap.  

To carve your block easily and effectively: Wet the surface of the stone completely with the water you've sprayed on. Then, wrap the stone in a thoroughly damp piece of tissue paper and place it in a sealed container, such as a zip-lock bag. After about an hour, the Meerschaum will be ready for carving. If you're carving deep enough to approach the dry center of the stone, you can spray the dry area you've reached with water and continue carving. Once you've finished carving, let the stone sit in an open area until it's completely dry. After final sanding while the stone is dry, seal your carving by dipping it in melted and liquefied beeswax or carnauba wax. Wipe the excess wax with some tissue while the carving still hot with heat of the melted wax. I recommend drilling (fire chamber, air hole, and mouthpiece tenon holes) after waxing and by fixing it securely. Now it is ready to gently buff with or without some carnauba wax. Natural beeswax gives a distinctive honey color to carved items. Even with traditional use of purified beeswax, pure white will tint a little towards ivory color. With carnauba item will be darker.