I used to make wood pipes a bunch. dont try to coat that shit with anything but good resin. I have heard of kids coating the shit with like wood wax and stuff and burning their lungs out. yeah the pipe will tase like bigfoots dick for a bit but, hey, you gotta give ol' sasquatch a hummer every once in awhile, dont ya? well yeah. another good idea is in the pipe part (aka not the bowl) put a screen down in it and then weed and then another screen so that the smoke is filtered through the weed. it wont taste so bad and even if you use shitty weed, you can take it out later and smoke it and it will be quite strong stuff.