Hi,
I saw some makers like Joe Kennedy like very much to use Applewood for pipes. Is there anything particular in the sound of this wood that he likes more than Boxwood/Ebony, or he use it just becouse it’s easy to get localy? I heard that it likes to crack very much-unstable. Thanks, Cheers
I’m pretty much shooting in the dark here but maybe in years gone by endemic fruitwoods were more easily available than exotic hardwoods and so pipes tended to be made from fruitwoods like applewood, plumbwood, pearwood, etc. Some modern makers like to copy the old makers’ style and so would choose fruitwoods.
Applewood cracks? I’m sure all woods would crack if they weren’t dried properly.
Sorry . I used wrong words - what I mean is, that in the process to make it dry, it is prone to crack easily then some other woods. But when it is done it is stable as others.
But I gues it must be also something special about tone, that Joe likes it so much. Cheers
Try a good chanter made out of applewood and you’ll know why. I have a concert pitch applewood chanter and I think it’s the bee’s knees, arms, and legs.
Apple.. You call it ‘iChanter’?
sorry, i just had to 
I had a loan of a chanter made from apple,but I didn’t like it . The tone was very dull.
RORY
So what are its core qualities?
Plenty of appeal.
You pipped me to the post on that one, s1m0n.
Sounds as sweet as ice-cream and apple-pipes.
I had a loan of a chanter made from apple,but I didn’t like it . The tone was very dull.
MUst have been the badly named “Golden Delicious” which are like biting into a bag of flour
‘Coxes’ or a ‘Granny Smith’ should be better but giuess a Bramley could sound a little sharp so no good for session work