HS Studio Sandblasted Pitcher Estate Briar Pipe, Unsmoked

Description

Here’s an interesting little pipe. It comes from a workshop in Hong Kong called “HS Studio.” While for many years China has been associated with factories pumping out cheap rosewood pipes, HS Studio is different because, as far as my understanding goes, the pipes are mostly made freehand by artisan carvers, kinda like the great Danish ones of old, or Savinelli’s Autograph division. If you’ve been keeping up with the world of Chinese pipes, artisan pipe-making has really been taking off over the last decade, with examples of major workshops being Zhiputang and GH Zhang, overseen by Guo Hui Zhang.

I certainly can’t fault the construction of this one. Not only is it a fascinating shape, like a pitcher plant (I’m going to have to categorize it as an Oom Paul just because we don’t have that as a shape category), but the briar looks good quality, it has a nice horn ferrule, and the stem is ebonite.

The pipe is completely unsmoked, with an original bowl coating.

 

Details:

Length: 5.5″ / 139.7mm

Bowl Width: 0.81 / 20.57mm

Bowl Depth: 1.4″ / 35.56mm

Weight: 2.3oz / 66g