Bennie Joe Pipes Smooth Nosewarmer Handmade Briar Pipe, New

Description

Bennie Joe Pipes are made by Bennie Joe, an Indonesian artisan based in Jakarta. A trained architect and part-time pipe-maker for much of his life, he took on the latter full-time after a downturn in the property market during the dark days of 2020 and after. An interesting aspect of Bennie Joe pipes is that they are made primarily with hand tools, rather than many of the woodworking machines pipe-makers employ. While the chambers and draft holes are drilled, the body of the pipe is formed using hand tools, creating genuinely freehand shapes reminiscent of those made in mid-century Denmark. It should come as no surprise that one of Bennie Joe’s heroes is the late, great, Bo Nordh.

This pipe from Bennie Joe is something of a rare design, being a plateau-rim freehand in the 1970s Danish style, while also being a rather short and eminently portable nosewarmer. At 44 grams, it’s not especially heavy, and veteran smokers may find it clenchable, but even those that don’t will enjoy how full and comfortable it feels in the hand. The grain is particularly beautiful on this one, too, with plenty of very tight, uniform straight grain around its bowl. Completing the pipe is a hand-cut ebonite stem, whose mortise is strengthened with a brass ring.

Details:

Length: 4.4″ / 111.7mm

Bowl Width: 0.75 / 19.05mm

Bowl Depth: 1.21″ / 30.73mm

Weight: 1.5oz / 44g