Nording Smooth Freehand (1) 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.

While many of the Nordings we’ve had in recently have been highly experimental (in the best of ways) regarding the finishes applied to them, it’s nonetheless always a pleasure to receive a much more classical rendition of the “Danish fancy,” as it was once called. This one is a beautiful specimen, with tight, straight grain, rolling furrows and furls, and dashes of plateaux on its rim—in other words, exactly the kind of pipe that made the freehand such a marvel in the first place.

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

 

Details:

Length: 5.8″ / 147.3mm

Bowl Width: 0.80 / 20.32mm

Bowl Depth: 1.68″ / 42.67mm

Weight: 1.8oz / 52g