Excellent craftsmanship! I'd love to buy one of your tampers. Great video.

Just now seeing this. Beautiful pieces. Would love to own one.

Just saw this. Love the black ebony, I just finished smoking a pipe from my grandfather's collection.

There’s some important philosophy in this video that I’ve always tried to live by. There’s this idea of a “first kind of cool” and a “second kind of cool” which I gleaned from another youtuber many years ago. First kind of cool - the thing needs to be useful, practical, and well-built Second kind of cool - the thing needs to make you feel a certain way when you use it. Maybe you feel proud, maybe the thing has its own inherent sexiness or manliness or something about it that just makes you feel good. Oftentimes this means you like to hold it, touch it, feel it, and that puts a smile on our face. These tampers seem like they were designed with both kinds of cool in mind. They don’t have any extra tools or moving parts they don’t need (just the tamper on one end, and the ash remover on the other end), this is part of the minimalist mindset. On the other hand, they’re dripping with “second kind of cool”- they are substantial feeling- More than other tampers on the market, and when you use it, you are proud to use it because you made it and that makes you feel a certain way, which is good for the heart and soul, and even good for mental health. That’s what makes these handmade all-wood tampers so good, I think.

Wow, this video was a long time ago but perhaps you are still seeing the comments regularly. I love everything about this. The little shed is a perfect spot for solitude and thinking and smoking a pipe and making those beautiful tampers. And those tampers, they are really exquisite. I already had this thought of making tampers, it’s the easiest piper’s accessory to craft. I must say, Mark, you do it so very well. I love the style of these tempers you’ve made. It’s a great inspiration and I’m sure you’re going to have a lot of copycats out there. Perhaps, I will see you again.

Beautiful and skillfully crafted pipe tampers ....I love them all, so functional for pipe maintenance...

Beautiful work on the tampers. You have inspired me to try something similar. I appreciate the various sites where you show your videos and the variety of tobaccos you share. Your comments about tobacco and German history are of continued interest to me. My best to you. Jim Dennis

So cool! Thank you for sharing some of your masterpieces with us. I plan to get into woodworking after I get settled into my new home. Cheers and take care. Joe

Wow, great video and those tampers are just beautiful!

Such a multi talented person. I love your videos and style. One of the best KZfaq Piper's.

Thanks for showing the work shop, Its small yes , but very functional. That's a lifetime memory that you and your father got to build it together . Beautiful tampers you make for pipe smoking too, Thanks , Cheers !

Very lovely work Mark. I really enjoy wood and craftsmanship. Great design.

Beautiful work. I love the design, has a nice weight and feel to fiddle around with. I'm inspired to try making one myself!

Beautiful and functional work. I love them.

Wonderful! You're very talented, sir. I enjoy all your videos as well. Thank you.

Absolutely fantastic video!!!! So interesting 🧐 and informative

Amazing things, Mark! You have a golden hands, as we say. I extremely like all the natural materials too, wood and stone of all forms and colors.

Great craftsmanship, thanks for sharing.

Thank you for sharing. Those are great! I'm going to try my hand at making myself one. Take care.

Thanks for the tour of your cozy tamper shack. You have organized and outfitted your shop quite nicely! Looks like a wonderful place to spend time in a creative/meditative state when making those awesome tampers!

Really nice video. It is like all your videos, very interesting and informative.

Tamper Tantrum sent me your way and I'm so glad that he did; I'm definitely sticking around! 😀 The tampers look amazing, but I admit that the shack itself speaks to me the most, what a great setup you have there. Cheers!

These look great! Great work!

I just got 10 various wood pen blanks to try making tampers for fun. I’ve got some briar and morta too but figured I’d start with some basic stuff like walnut and olive first. Morta is smart because any morta tamper will match a Morta pipe for the most part since its black and grains are so similar across the board.

Wow, these are quite a beautiful design. I love the tactility of them; something to elevate the ritual of the smoke. And while I'd love to buy one of these I think there's something special about an item that cannot be bought, only gifted. Great work.

just chooching back in time again looking at your awesome tampers but this time I own one , thanks again my friend the tampers are really nice keep on choochin my friend

Mark, I've been a pipe smoker for a very short time. I very much appreciate your videos. I've learned a lot from you. In the past, I had some very nice pieces of Mesquite and Ironwood from Arizona. I think that they would make very nice tampers. If I ever find more of this wood during my hiking in the desert, I'll try making my own. I do like your design. Thank you for the inspiration. Die besten Wünsche. Weiter rauchen.

You've inspired me to try this in my small shed! Many thanks Mark and best wishes from London

Beautiful work!

Beautiful work. Thanks for sharing

The Pink Rosewood is my favorite, you do Great work.

I'd love to buy one someday, beautiful tampers and jealous of the shack

Absolutely beautiful! Wish they sold tampers like these where I am from. Amazing! Great Work!

Heyyy Mark. You are a very talented brother your tamper are just beautiful i love mine. So much every time i use it i think of you my friend. You work very. Hard on these tampers mark and i really cherish mine i dont take mine out the house at all dont want to lose it. I just love the. Little shag that you and your Dad built together its beautiful. Mark thanks so much for making this video letting us see the work that goes into these masterpieces its awesome happy smokes😄😃😃😃😃👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 best regards peter.

Awesome tampers brother you do a great job! I really dig the work shop also, thanks for sharing!

Very nice sir! A lot of variety, styles and colors. the bicotti and olive wood are nice grain. The ivory wood with the burnt area is neat. All great creations and functional!

those tampers are absolutely beautiful the wood grain on some of them outstanding. beautiful work my friend.exceptional Mark

They look fantastic, I really like the black one.

Goodness, those are amazing. I use a galvanized framing nail with a dull point. I think I need to up my game, maybe.

Love the shack and beautiful tampers. You inspire me to want to make some.

Wow, I saw your tamper in the Merovingians video and thought it was gorgeous! Now I know you were the one who made it!! Absolutely fantastic Job!! Congratulations and thanks for sharing!! Happy Holidays :--D

Mark brother that is absolutely fantastic 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

Awesome, Mark! I would love to purchase one of your tampers.

Fantastic set up my friend! Those tampers are beautiful! 👍

Beautiful tampers! I know there is nothing that I enjoy more than time spent in my workshop making things out of wood. Although small, your shack seems like a great place to escape to. Thanks for sharing and be well. -Ray

I really liked the video, we both use the same type of meditation, I have been smoking a pipe for a few years and recently I noticed that I do not connect to the tampers on the market in terms of shape, material, size so I started making my own, great fun.

Very nice work Mark.

Mark hey. I got my gift from Gilles today. WOW I was surprised. It is an honor to own one of your tampers brother. I will be making a video soon about it. Thanks again. 👍👍👍

For me....A "functional" hand made item is always something nice. Time, effort, work went into making the item and that gives me a feeling of good home roots to think and ponder over. A hand item such as your tamper is even better, because I can fidget with it in my hands and feel the work a man has done. A great video...especially in today's society where everything is mass produced.

Oh My Goodness! These are the beautiful classy tamper's I have seen, Wes

Thanks for sharing those are a thing of beauty very skilled

Some works of art there Mark. I'm definitely inspired to have a go myself. Thanks for the insight. Take care and sweet smokes my Friend.

Great video as usual Mark. Nice hut as well very functional. Be well my friend.

Hi Mark. Very beautiful tampers. You are a true artist. It was interesting to here about the different hardwoods. Thank you for sharing and take care!

Your tampers are very sharp looking. You and your father must have worked very hard on the shack for it to lasted so long and look so nice. Thanks for sharing all of this with us.

I'm a retired woodworker so i have some experience with various woods. I have a lathe so am making a few simple tampers for myself. A few woods that you might enjoy for tampers if you haven't already is Bubinga, PNG Kwilla, Bloodwood, Zimbabwean Mukwa.. Your tampers look very nice and enjoy your video's

Love the shack Mark, very cosy feeling. Can't imagine what it would be like surrounded with snow. New sub to your channel.

Absolutely beautiful craftsmanship. You are quite the artist. Thank you for sharing your creativity with us. Be well brother.

Beatiful tampers, wish I could buy one, wink, wink. lol Love your vids, good day Mr. Bremen.

Wow the tampers are amazing looking

Hello Mark! Thx a million for taking the time to make that video... To take the time and explain the different type of woods, the results and everything... I actually had my jaw wide open seeing all those beautiful woods, the grain, the color and especially the result of your handywork!! I understand completely what you mean when you mentioned that woodworking is relaxing. I am not a very manual person... I can manage to make some stuff, but I really need to concentrate on what I am doing, and the fact that I only concentrate on one thing, I find it to be relaxing (instead of having to think about several things at the same time like I do at work, in nursing). In a near future, I would like to increase the size of my shack so that I can have a little place of my own, to smoke my pipe and do some woodworking). Well... again thx a lot for that awesome video, very informative and interesting! Also, thx for your friendship!! Take care and Be well my friend!

Love the rose wood but they are all fantastic

Love your videos. You inspired me to try my hand at making my own tamper!

Awesome video, Mark!! I want to buy a few of your tampers!!!

Ahhh, the shack. I was hoping we would get to see this. I don't smoke indoors since the weather is getting colder, you might have inspired me to build my own pipe smoking shack.

What a lovely oasis of calm and tranquility even better it was built by the hands of your father.

You do a great job on those great looking tampers, you should make a pipe bowl, i bet you could make an awesome pipe complete.

Really liked your video on tampers. I live in the Southwest California desert & have some hard wood like Mesquite wood which is hard and has some nice color & grain. Thank you for the great ideas!👍👍 PS I’m a new subscriber, keep them coming!!

Thanks for sharing that. Very nice tampers. I like the dark brown or black ones. there is not alot of real dark wood in the western U.S. I am going to have to give it a try. keep up the great vids. take care bro...

Superb. Thank you so much for sharing.

I was choochin back in time and watched this video ,awesome tampers I have seen one of your tampers when I did the meet up with KENT LEATHER NECK PIPER , KEEP ON CHOOCHIN MARK

That's cool I was wanting to get some pen blanks and make some tamps myself I just didn't have the money then I come across this video it was nice cuz I get to see what I wanted

Hello Mark! You're doing great things with these small pieces of wood. I am delighted with the quality of what you get such simple methods. You're like the Japanese creator of samurai swords ;-) Tampers commercially available can not compete with your products. Greetings from Poland! :)))

Beautiful design dear. Simple and effective yet stylish. Genius !!! Loved the tampers. I wish you could fashion one for me and send it my way :) good work bro !

Wonderfull man cave, it is like a hobbit home in that garden! But I think you have enough tampers for a few life times lol Btw I loved your meerschaum talk video, showing all your pipes, dropping the block in water etc, Im a meerschaum smoker too, although I mostly smoke gourd calabash (I have MANY, some more than 100 years old, I buy and restore them like you make tampers, pure meditation) I also have various 'normal' and carved meerschaum pipes :) Cheers from Dänemark!

I don’t mean to offend if you already know this, but I thought I’d share that in the US at least we call a wood’s “structures” the wood’s grain. Such beautiful work. I like the idea of making them fun to handle so they enhance the smoke as much as possible.

Really enjoying your channel, very well made videos. Love your little getaway in the vines. Would love to have a little place like that for pipe smoking and reading. You make very handsome tampers, I really like the size and functionality, but their beauty is what makes them desirable. Keep the videos coming and I hope to catch up soon. Be well, Stephen

That's awesome man!!

Hi Mark, these tampers you're making are really outstanding in shape and probably also in quality! Keep up the good handiwork and perhaps there is an oportunity to purchase one of those somedays :) I really like the shape, the size and the naturalness. Have some good Christmas days, enjoy some free time between the years keep going with your videos. Marco

Lovely done brother in pipes 👍👍👍👍😇😉

If you ever have one to sell please keep me informed I like your design and I don't have the tools or the knowledge to make my own, keep the videos coming yours are very interesting!

Nice video very inspiring

really nice craftmanship

Hi Mark, Beautiful work on the tampers. And, such wonderful materials. You make a good point about the larger sizes, and the 'feel' in the hand. Nice work. You're a talented man. Be well, my friend. Thanks. Ed

Sometimes, post a complete video of the process of making these tampers :) I would love to see !!!

Beautiful!! Craftmanship is so rarely appreciated these days -- though definitely still there if you look for it. We need to re-connect with this.

I was wondering where you get those tampers, you make them, very good they are quite nice, excellent work!

Great craftsmanship! Sad you don't sell them as you would easily find a good market for it. Congrats for the work and thanks for the videos.

Hey Mark, just came across your channel a few days ago and subscribed, you have a great channel, good content, interesting history and places, and discussions on pipes and tobacco of course. Love these tampers you make, and I would love to get one someday, but I understand that you can't hand one out to everyone and you do this as a hobby, so selling them could be overwhelming. Nonetheless, they are beautifully made. Well, on to watching a few more of your videos. Cheers, Corey

Very nice job ;-) Take care

Love to bog oak (Morda) great stuff to work with but it is hard love the stuff. Ram ans Alicia . A&R pipe Co. thanks friend lovely Video.

Bremen very interesting very nice great video I must try my own hand it this somday

If you like hard woods with great patterns try some cocobolo,my dad used to make knife handles out of it and also out of deer antlers,you may also like to try using bone. I have seen some crazy patterns and finishes out of different kinds of bones. Really enjoy your videos, please keep them coming!

Mark - In recent weeks I have been enjoying (and learning so much from) the dozen or so of your videos I've watched thus far. Just when I thought I was beginning to get a full sense of you, we are treated to a visit to your little shack. Who could've guessed that a modest and unassuming structure would be the creation point of items of such truly beautiful utility and craftsmanship. Your tampers are just marvelous to behold! From your wide knowledge of pipes and tobacco, to your work in the field of history, to the engaging travelogue quality of so many of your videos, it is clear that you, sir, are a true Renaissance Man! Cheers! Scott in San Diego California

Great tampers! Guess every pipe smoker wish piece

So funny to see Brazilian Rosewood on your shelf. Back there it is so common and used for all sorts of things!

Had to watch it again brother. Hey you should come to Chicago pipe show. Gilles will be coming. 💨🔥👊 Gonna be a great time.

Great video. I do have a question that maybe has already been asked. Have you thought about making a video of how you make a tamper? I would not know where to start but I plan to give it a try.

Very nice!

Mark your a great person