Buckeye Hand Made Black Sandblasted Plateau Dublin (New)

About this pipe:

Premal Chheda’s Buckeye Pipes have undergone several significant changes since their debut in the mid-2000s. Chheda himself was one of the first major players in 21st century American artisan briars, having been taught the fundamentals of high-grade pipe making by Mike Butera, and having had plenty of students of his own in the time since. Though Buckeye started out as an sub-brand for pipes that did not quite meet the standard of a pipe stamped with the Chheda name, the two would ultimately become different projects entirely. Today’s Buckeye Pipes are, instead, high-quality briars produced by Premal Chheda and his apprentices. The difference between a Chheda Pipe, or one of the pipes made by Chheda’s apprentices under their own name, and a Buckeye pipe boils down to the level of detailing involved: Buckeye Pipes are precision engineered and expertly finished, while being more minimalist in design and less labor-intensive in execution than their counterparts.

Deftly weaving elements of the Dublin, the blowfish, the fugu, and the Danish Fancy freehand, this particular Buckeye achieves an impressive marriage of formal precision and sheer ruggedness. On the one hand, it is distinguished by masses of sharp, live plateau burl at its rim and shank end and by an intense, ring grain sandblast, while on the other it is strikingly neat as far a shaping goes, with a well proportioned bowl, a sweeping figure, and a ridge-line that runs from the very front of the bowl, down along its underside, right up to the end of the pipe’s teardrop shank.

Details:

Length: 6″ / 152.4mm

Bowl Width: 0.88 / 22.35mm

Bowl Depth: 1.83″ / 46.48mm

Weight: 2.9oz / 84g