This is another decent sized piece of white pipestone or alabaster. It measures app. 7" x 4" and it is app. 1-7/16" thick. This is a type of stone where the finished product will be a predominantly whitish color, but they'll sometimes have hues of a strawberry or peach color. We currently have several finished pipes made out of this stone on the website, (This is not the Transluscent Italian Alabaster which is generally very white) so if you want to get an idea of what your finished pipe might look like, just take a look at a few of our finished ceremonial pipes made out of alabaster.
You will find this alabaster is very easy to carve. It is softer than any of the other types of stone we are currently selling on our website. Having soft stone like this, generally is nice when it comes to carving, but we have learned from experience that this type of stone does not stand up as well under intense heat, as the other 2 types of stone. A piece of stone like this, if made into a ceremonial pipe, will likely not survive 100's of years like steatite or catlinite ones can.
This type of stone carves best using regular wood files and regular hacksaw blades in our opinion. It will also cut OK using a bandsaw and a sharp wooden blade. It can almost be too soft to do any real fine detail work with a knife, (like the horns on a buffalo for instance) because the potential is there for very small or delicate carvings to break off in the process of carving.
If you decide to purchase one of our pipe blanks or pieces of stone we want to see you follow through and complete your pipe or carving. We make ourselves available to answer any questions that might come up while your working on it. We can often provide little helpful hints if you run into a "snag" of any kind.
If you are interested in this piece of stone and have any questions you'd like to ask before purchasing it, please email us or give us a call. If you have a specific size piece of this type of stone in mind you can also
Contact Us and we will gladly see if we have something on hand that will work for you.
Shipping for this item to anywhere in the continental U.S. is $13.00 and if you purchase more than one piece of stone from us, the price of shipping remains the same, as long as all of the items can fit in one of the U.S.P.S. flat rate boxes.
