This is a little bit smaller piece of the Italian Alabster! It comes all the way from Italy and it is the type of stone that we use to make our White Buffalo Pipes. We love working with it!
This piece measures app. 4-1/2" x 4" and it is app. 1-5/8" thick. This piece of stone could be used to get 1 or 2 personal pipes out of, and/or a couple of nice sized animal effigies.
This is a type of stone where the finished product will be almost a pure white color. We currently have pictures of several finished pipes made out of this stone on the website, 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 the Italian alabaster.
This is a really cool type of stone that allows you to see light right through it. If used for a ceremonial pipe, when you go to light the bowl, you'll see the flame right through the side of the bowl.
You will find this alabaster is very easy to carve. It is about the same softness as the other alabaster we sell and 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 is almost 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're careful though, it can be done... as you can see on the buffalo pipes that we make.
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 will remain at $13.00 as long as all of the items can fit in one of the U.S.P.S. flat rate boxes.
