SU Pipes XL Smooth Mushroom w/ Stabilized Oak Handmade Briar Pipe, Unsmoked

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 one is a large hybrid of the mushroom and Rhodesian shapes, with aspects of, for example, S. Bang, Lasse Skovgaard, and even a little bit of Hiroyuki Tokutomi. Urgan’s pipes tend to have a little more color and ornamentation than the Danes and their immediate heirs, however, with this one including a camo-green ebonite stem and a stabilized oak ferrule.

Details:

Length: 6″ / 152.4mm

Bowl Width: 0.86 / 21.84mm

Bowl Depth: 1.80″ / 45.72mm

Weight: 3.8oz / 110g