Nording Handmade Smooth Freehand Estate Briar Pipe, Unsmoked

Description

Nørding was founded by Erik Nørding in the 1960s, and is one of the oldest remaining companies to come out of the Scandinavian pipe-making renaissance that began in the mid-20th century. Now in his 80s, Erik Nørding is one of the most experienced and skilled pipe-makers in the world, and over the decades he has also been a teacher of other Danish masters, such as Poul Ilsted, Svend Axel Celius, Jens Tao Nielsen, Peder Jeppesen, and Søren Erik Andersen.

As the head of one of Denmark’s most prolific pipe companies, Erik Nørding himself doesn’t make many pipes these days, with those that he does make being mostly for the “Handmade” series. It’s always nice, then, to have an earlier Nørding pipe land on my desk, especially his freehands. After all, along with figures like Preben Holm, Erik Nørding was one of the pioneers and trailblazers of the “Danish fancy” style of freehand pipe design. This older freehand is a great example of his freehand output, featuring copious flame grain, a part-plateaux rim, and an ornate, ebonite stem.

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

 

Details:

Length: 5.5″ / 139.7mm

Bowl Width: 0.81 / 20.57mm

Bowl Depth: 1.31″ / 33.27mm

Weight: 2.0oz / 58g