C Kent Joyce Freehand Acorn, Handmade Estate Briar Pipe, Unsmoked [SOLD]

Description

C. Kent Joyce is an American artisan from Oklahoma. Originally a collector of high-grade smoking pipes, Joyce ultimately turned to making his own, taking inspiration from the masters in and outside of his personal collection. Along the way, he has studied in the creation of handmade pipes under influential American carvers, such as Premal Chheda.

When I look at a pipe like this one, I see an interesting meeting of two pipe-making traditions, one Danish, and one American. On the one hand, the pipe displays obvious leanings toward the nature-inflected works of the Ivarsson family, especially their acorn shapes; on the other, the pipe evokes the 1980s wave of North American freehand carvers, such as in the pipes of Randy Wiley or Tim West.

This C. Kent Joyce is completely unsmoked, having come to us via our trade-in program.

 

Details:

Length: 5.2″ / 132.0mm

Bowl Width: 0.74 / 18.79mm

Bowl Depth: 1.43″ / 36.32mm

Weight: 1.9oz / 54g