Bennie Joe Smooth Horn Handmade Briar Pipe, New

Description

Bennie Joe Pipes are made by Bennie Joe, an Indonesian artisan based in Jakarta. A trained architect and part-time pipe-maker for much of his life, he took on the latter full-time after a downturn in the property market during the dark days of 2020 and after. An interesting aspect of Bennie Joe pipes is that they are made primarily with hand tools, rather than many of the woodworking machines pipe-makers employ. While the chambers and draft holes are drilled, the body of the pipe is formed using hand tools, creating genuinely freehand shapes reminiscent of those made in mid-century Denmark. It should come as no surprise that one of Bennie Joe’s heroes is the late, great, Bo Nordh.

The horn has a long-established role within Danish and Danish-inspired pipe-making, thanks in large part to the pioneering designs of Sixten Ivarsson and Bo Nordh. Here we see Indonesia’s Bennie Joe paying his own tribute to the latter, as so many have done. The result is a long (though relatively lightweight), distinct piece, covered in flame grain that seems almost to explode in the form of a rim of plateaux briar.

 

Details:

Length: 6.5″ / 165.1mm

Bowl Width: 0.97 / 24.63mm

Bowl Depth: 1.29″ / 32.76mm

Weight: 1.4oz / 42g