Bennie Joe Ballerina w/ Bamboo 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.

Speaking of Bo Nordh, here we have one of Bennie Joe’s interpretations of a classic Bo Nordh shape: the “ballerina.” Closely related to the “elephant’s foot,” the ballerina’s namesake is in its “arched” bowl, resembling the tiptoeing, raised heel of a dancer en pointe. As ever, Bennie Joe has added his own spin on the shape, including a rim dashed with plateau, as well as a shank extension cut from Indonesian bamboo. The stem is hand cut ebonite.

 

Details:

Length: 5″ / 127.0mm

Bowl Width: 0.84 / 21.33mm

Bowl Depth: 1.33″ / 33.78mm

Weight: 1.7oz / 50g