Bennie Joe Pipes Smooth Stacked Lovat 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.

While my preferences tend to lie with avant-garde, Danish shapes, must admit that I have a soft spot for the classics. This one is a rather stout, stacked Lovat, one dressed in a brick red stain with a hand cut ebonite stem. While more conservatively inclined than his usual freehands, this Bennie Joe is nonetheless a beautiful pipe, and one no less made by hand.

 

Details:

Length: 4.6″

Bowl Width: 20.0mm

Bowl Depth: 1.8″

Weight: 1.3oz / 38g