Doctor’s Pipes Flash Grade Sandblasted Bent Apple Handmade Briar Pipe, New

Description

Doctor’s Pipes are made by artisan pipe-maker Roman Kovalev. Based in Saint Petersburg, Kovalev’s pipe-making moniker derives from his sixteen years spent as a pediatric neurologist, and the consequent nickname of ‘Doc’ given by his friends. Taking up pipe-making in the early 2010s, and with a great deal of inspiration from Japanese masters such as Hiroyuki Tokutomi, Kovalev’s career underwent a meteoric rise that most artisans can only dream of. As one might expect from their maker’s background, Doctor’s Pipes are truly precision instruments; they are also highly inventive, however, with one of Kovalev’s innovations being the sandblasting machine that he designed and built as tailored to his own personal specifications.

Were incredibly excited that we’ll be stocking Doctor’s Pipes from here on out. It’s an honor to be able to offer such fine pipes to our customers.

One of the things I love about Roman’s pipes, and one of the things that I haven’t found on any other make or maker’s pipes – at least, not to the same effects – is how he works bamboo into his designs. If you’ve ever sat down with a pipe-maker, or even if you’ve explored pipe-making forums, you’ll know that bamboo is not an easy material to use. But it also adds possibilities to pipe design that simply aren’t there otherwise. If you look at the curvature of this Flash grade apple, for example, you should be able to see that it involves a graceful, not nonetheless very steep bend from the base of the stem to the base of the bowl. Without adding something like bamboo, you’re not going to be able to line up a draft-hole that sits perfectly at the bottom of the chamber, where it should be. Materials like bamboo open up spaces in design like that, and as such they allow for highly novel, and highly distinct approaches to pipe design, as Doctor’s Pipes continue to show. On the other hand, and as mentioned, you have to really know what you’re doing when it comes to using such materials, which Roman certainly does.

 

Details:

Length: 4.8″ / 121.9mm

Bowl Width: 0.85 / 21.59mm

Bowl Depth: 1.35″ / 34.29mm

Weight: 1.6oz / 46g