SU Pipes XL Smooth Dublin w/ Ivorite Handmade Briar Pipe, New

Description

You may have wondered, as I often do, what would happen if professional meerschaum carver was to turn their attention to briar wood, and to make pipes out of that instead. While many early briar pipe manufacturers, such as Frederick Charatan, made just such a transition back in the late 19th century, both briar and meerschaum pipe manufacture have changed significantly in the century since, making for an interesting opportunity. Enter Sebahattin Urgan of SU Pipes, former apprentice to Eskişehir’s master of meerschaum Emre Bay and now an expert carver in his own right. Urgan’s talents have in recent years extended to handcrafting briar pipes, having been greatly inspired by the legends of Scandinavian and post-Scandinavian design. This extra large Dublin, for example, tips its hat to both the Danish fancy freehand school, as well as the assertive, slightly asymmetrical forms of the Japanese and Eurasian schools which followed. The pipe is accented at its shank with a ring of Ivorite, also known as Elforyn, and completed by a hand cut, ebonite stem.

 

Details:

Length: 6.5″ / 165.1mm

Bowl Width: 0.79 / 20.06mm

Bowl Depth: 2.43″ / 61.72mm

Weight: 4.0oz / 116g