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Tom Sawyer and a cob
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<blockquote data-quote="Stick" data-source="post: 462225" data-attributes="member: 3474"><p>We sat down as a family yesterday and watched the 1973 film Tom Sawyer starring, amongst others, a very young Jodie Foster. I was interested to see Huck carve a bowl for a pipe whilst marooned on an island on the Mississippi and later smoke what appeared to be a MM Country Gent with 'twig' for a stem and bit. It made me smile that back then it was deemed ok to feature films where children smoked pipes! I don't have any snags with that now but it did catch my eye.</p><p></p><p>It got me thinking though, how were the twigs / sticks drilled to accept a draught hole or was this a sprinkling of fantasy? I've made whistles out of elder as it's possible to remove the pithy centre but these whistles are a lot thicker than the requirements for a stem.</p><p></p><p>Great film though, the children loved it, and daddy was happy at the glimpse of a pipe or two <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite8" alt=":D" title="Big grin :D" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":D" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Stick, post: 462225, member: 3474"] We sat down as a family yesterday and watched the 1973 film Tom Sawyer starring, amongst others, a very young Jodie Foster. I was interested to see Huck carve a bowl for a pipe whilst marooned on an island on the Mississippi and later smoke what appeared to be a MM Country Gent with 'twig' for a stem and bit. It made me smile that back then it was deemed ok to feature films where children smoked pipes! I don't have any snags with that now but it did catch my eye. It got me thinking though, how were the twigs / sticks drilled to accept a draught hole or was this a sprinkling of fantasy? I've made whistles out of elder as it's possible to remove the pithy centre but these whistles are a lot thicker than the requirements for a stem. Great film though, the children loved it, and daddy was happy at the glimpse of a pipe or two :D [/QUOTE]
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