Sebastian Heck Long Shank Acorn w/ Masur Birch Handmade Briar 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.

As with another pipe listed recently, with this one we find Sebastian Heck paying tribute to the great Lars Ivarsson. More specifically, here Heck is putting his own spin on the “acorn” shapes Lars inherited—and reinterpreted in his own turn—from his father, Sixten Ivarsson. The pipe brings together the long, flowing lines and bulbous bowl of the Ivarssonian acorn, while also weaving in elements of the more contemporary “fig” shapes by way of a sharp “foot” at the bowl’s base. As a last touch, the pipe is dressed in a crisp, dark sandblast finish and capped with a stabilized Masur birch accent, lending the overall design a striking black and gold motif.

 

Details:

Length: 7″ / 177.8mm

Bowl Width: 0.78 / 19.81mm

Bowl Depth: 1.38″ / 35.05mm

Weight: 1.5oz / 56g