Sebastian Heck Morta Apple w/ Mammoth Handmade Pipe, New

Description

Sebastian Heck is part of younger generation of highly skilled artisans to have emerged from Germany in recent years. Based in Heidelberg, Heck took up pipe smoking—and, ultimately, pipe-making—as part of a conscious effort toward slowing down in an otherwise constantly accelerating modern world. Like many pipe-makers, Heck took his first steps into the craft as a restorer of estate and heirloom pieces, which in time brought with it an expansion of his workshop and the tools housed within it. With this as a base, creating new pipes of his own was a natural progression. Heck’s development has been greatly influenced by the Danish and German schools of pipe design, and has included time spent learning directly from fellow German artisans, such as Dirk Heinemann.

Sebastian Heck is back at MBSD, in this instance with a combination that I’ve always considered to be absolutely perfect: morta and mammoth. The former is a variety of oak, felled and fossilized over thousands of years in peat bogs (hence its other common name, bog oak); the latter comes from the teeth and tusks of mastodons, whose remains have fossilized over a similar period of time. As for the shape, Heck has kept things relatively traditional with the pipe’s quarter-bent apple figure, though its swelling shank does call to mind another very talented artisan, Wolfgang Becker, and that most curious shape: the wasp.

 

Details:

Length: 5.5″ / 139.7mm

Bowl Width: 0.76 / 19.30mm

Bowl Depth: 1.14″ / 28.95mm

Weight: 1.6oz / 46g