HS Studio Smooth Reverse Calabash Fig w/ Boxwood Estate Briar Pipe, Unsmoked

Description

If you’ve been keeping up with the world of Chinese pipe making, their artisan scene has been really taking off over the last decade. Like the great Danish institutions of old, many of these pipes are produced in artisan workshops such as Zhiputang, Qi Studio, and GH Zhang. Hong Kong’s HS Studio follows a similar model, with a team of expert in-house carvers crafting high-quality briars in a variety of styles.

Not unlike some of our MBSD Silver line meerschaums, this highly distinctive briar from HS Studio features a reverse calabash system. Using a widened bore and a conically-inclined tenon, it provides a space for smoke to cool and dry a little more as it makes its way through the bowl and stem. In this instance, the reverse calabash forms part of a beautifully grained and very modern design, reminiscent both of the fig and strawberry shapes of artisan pipe making, and also a little of the wasp, or Wespe, shapes of Wolfgang Becker. It’s somewhat hard to classify, but it certainly looks good.

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

 

Details:

Length: 6″ / 152.4mm

Bowl Width: 0.78 / 19.81mm

Bowl Depth: 2.02″ / 51.30mm

Weight: 2.4oz / 70g