Pipe Tristan Sandblasted Apple w/ Durat Briar Pipe, New

Description

I used to say that Pipe Tristan’s Tristan Lefebvre was part of a “new wave” of “up-and-coming” artisans from France, the very birthplace of the briar pipe. But that description doesn’t do him justice these days. Lefebvre isn’t so much a “part” of the latest generation of French artisans as the craftsman leading the charge; likewise, he is no longer “up-and-coming,” but has already secured himself a place alongside historic compatriots such as Alain Albuisson, Paul Lanier, and Pierre Morel Sr and Jr. In fact, in 2025, he was inducted into Confrérie des Maîtres Pipiers de Saint-Claude, a prestigious French association of master pipe makers whose ranks have included Albuisson, Lanier, and Morel the younger.

Tristan Lefebvre’s induction into the Confrérie this year appears to have had something of a “traditionalizing” effect on his pipe designs, with his latest batch of pipes for MBSD being neoclassical renditions of centuries-old shapes. Similarly to the billiard listed alongside it, this Tristan is, at its heart, a good, old fashioned, army mount apple, with proportions not unlike early to mid-century briars. But, like the Tristan billiard, this one swaps out silver or nickel for a ferrule cut from a mottled, arctic Finnish Durat, along with a more Scandi-American style, flared ebonite stem.

 

Details:

Length: 5.2″ / 132.0mm

Bowl Width: 0.77 / 19.55mm

Bowl Depth: 1.53″ / 38.86mm

Weight: 1.1oz / 34g