The World´s Largest Pipe

From  Erik Nording,s web site. 

The history of the world´s largest pipe,

included in the Guinness Book of Records 1988: Erik Nording got the idea for the world´s largest pipe several years ago. But because briar wood, from which most pipes are made, only grows as a single root from a bush, it was impossible to produce a really large pipe made of genuine briar by means of the traditional methods.

Thus, the largest pipe in wood made from genuine briar was formed out of 1.189 individual pipe bowls, collected single-handedly by Erik Nording throughout several years.

Naturally, it is possible to smoke the pipe as well, as one of the pipe bowls is connected to the mouthpiece, which has been formed out of 1.005 ordinary mouthpieces. 

The result is a pipe which is 83.4 inches tall and weighs 125 pounds. The diameter of the bowl is 25 inches and the height is 29.2 inches. The mouthpiece is 45.8 inches long. 

The entire project is handmade and Erik Nording put 103 hours of work into developing this pipe. If one were to work out the retail price, it would amount to approximately 50.000 U.S. Dollars.