G Pipes Rusticated Danish Apple w/ Horn Handmade Briar Pipe, New

Description

As with other forms of art and craft, pipe making has a curious tendency to “run in the family.” Denmark, of course, is famous for its pipe making dynasties, such as the successive generations of Ivarsson, Chonowitsch, and Balleby pipes. The same holds for the Morel family in France and the Blatter family in Canada. There are also instances where siblings make pipes together, such as in the cases of Blatter Bros and Vollmer & Nilsson. And there are also examples where two or more siblings from the same family will make pipes individually, as Sven Knudsen and Teddy Knudsen did before and after their brief Dantonian partnership.

This latter example is most apt to describe three brothers from Indonesia with seemingly genetic talents for pipe making: Wandi Riyadi, Md. Anggi, and Md. Angga. While Anggi and Angga have learned plenty from their trailblazing brother Riyadi over the years, they’ve also managed to step out of their brother’s increasingly large shadow and to carve their own, individual paths.

For this pipe, Anggi, better known as G Pipes, has crafted a plump, rusticated apple with something of a Danish flair to it. While rustication is not typically associated with Danish pipes (aside from the micro-rustication of Brakner et al.), more recently, masters such as Hans “Former” Nielsen and Tom Eltang have charted a new path away from high-grade obsessions with straight grain. Those taught or inspired by Former and Eltang, such as Luiz Lavos and Jon Vesterholm, have similarly looked to see what rustication can do for Danish staples. This G Pipes rendition is another such example, this time leaning into the Indonesian style patterning that Riyadi, Angga, and Anggi have become known for.

 

Details:

Length: 4.5″ / 114.3mm

Bowl Width: 0.77 / 19.55mm

Bowl Depth: 1.37″ / 34.79mm

Weight: 1.3oz / 38g