Bushcraft project: bush pipe

Today I craft a bush pipe made from birch wood and a type of tall Reed Grass using only basic tools (carving knife, saw and a drill bit).

Note: I’m using dead materials, for small projects like these, it’s not worth cutting down anything live. The reed grass I’m using are dry old chutes from the previous year (even so I didn’t remove the roots) and the birch tree was already on the ground when I found it, blown over from a storm.

I’m not a smoker, for me bush pipes are more meant for medicine, sometimes the quickest way to absorb the medicine from a plant is to inhale the smoke that said plant produces, so bush pipes are perfect for this use. (For example smoking mullein leaves/flowers helps alleviate stuffy lungs)