Ascorti Sabbia Di Oro Sandblasted Cherrywood Sitter Estate Briar Pipe, Unsmoked

Description

Ascorti belongs to a historic lineage in Italian artisan pipe-making. Guiseppe ‘Peppino’ Ascorti was first employed as a pipe-maker in the 1950s, in Carlo Scotti’s Castello workshop in Cantu. There he met Luigi Radice, and in the 1960s the two decided to leave Castello to create their own pipe-making workshop, under the name ‘Caminetto.’ At the end of the 1970s, Guiseppe Ascorti and Luigi Radice left Caminetto and once more decided to start new ventures. Luigi Radice founded the Radice pipe workshop, and Guiseppe’s son Roberto Ascorti, who had also worked in the Caminetto workshop since he was a child, decided to create a workshop under his own name. Roberto was joined not only by his father, but also many of the talented craftsmen who had formerly worked for Caminetto. In 1980, the Ascorti workshop was born.

In Italy, what we in the Anglophone world call “sandblasted” finishes sabbiata, with sabbia itself corresponding to the English “sand.” Now, this doesn’t necessarily mean that every Italian pipe maker has a line simply called “Sabbiata”; just as Dunhill has its Shell Briar and Barling’s had its Fossil, Castello, for example, has its Old Antiquari, and Radice has its Silk Cut. Ascorti, for its part, pays homage to the Caminetto workshop that preceded it through the Sabbia Di Oro series, recalling Caminetto’s Sable D’Or sandblast. This Sabbia Di Oro is a beautiful Italian take on the classical cherrywood, with a sandblast that’s been focused on bird’s-eye, rather than ring grain, giving it a distinctive, almost volcanic texture

This pipe is completely unsmoked. It comes with its original box and sleeve.

Details:

Length: 5.4″ / 137.1mm

Bowl Width: 0.78 / 19.81mm

Bowl Depth: 1.54″ / 39.11mm

Weight: 1.8oz / 52g