Doctors Pipes Double Flash Bamboo Brandy Handmade Briar Pipe, New

Description

Doctor’s Pipes are made by artisan pipe-maker Roman Kovalev. Based in Saint Petersburg, Kovalev’s pipe-making moniker derives from his sixteen years spent as a pediatric neurologist, and the consequent nickname of ‘Doc’ given by his friends. Taking up pipe-making in the early 2010s, and with a great deal of inspiration from Japanese masters such as Hiroyuki Tokutomi, Kovalev’s career underwent a meteoric rise that most artisans can only dream of. As one might expect from their maker’s background, Doctor’s Pipes are truly precision instruments; they are also highly inventive, however, with one of Kovalev’s innovations being the sandblasting machine that he designed and built as tailored to his own personal specifications.

Were incredibly excited that we’ll be stocking Doctor’s Pipes from here on out. It’s an honor to be able to offer such fine pipes to our customers.

The brandy is a shape that has come a long way over the last century. While the basic idea has remained the same – that of a broad-based and rounded bowl and a slight, conical taper evoking the snifters of its namesake – how this idea is realized has undergone an uncountable series of reinterpretations since its origins in the early days of briar pipe-making. But this isn’t to say that the brandy has become something unrecognizable or unbecoming of that name. For example, this brandy from Roman Kovalev is in fact more like a cognac snifter than traditional versions, such as Dunhill’s 33 and 34 shapes. Like the snifter, it expands outward and upward, mirroring the supple curvature of blown glass. Like the snifter, this bowl also transitions into a narrow section that progresses toward its completion in a flake – as if the stem of the glass had been rotated 90 degrees on the axis of that transition.

 

Details:

Length: 4″ / 101.6mm

Bowl Width: 0.82 / 20.82mm

Bowl Depth: 1.5″ / 38.10mm

Weight: 1.6oz / 48g