Dave Neeb Large Smooth Stack Dublin Handmade Briar Pipe, New

About this pipe:

Dave Neeb spent the first part of his life as an attorney. Upon retiring, however, he turned his hand to an altogether different vocation: pipes. First, Neeb was a pipe seller; he then learned the art of pipe restoration; finally, under the tutelage of Lee Von Erck and Rad Davis, he took up making artisan pipes himself. This continued for many years, with Neeb’s restoration of high-grade pipes being practiced side by side with the crafting of his own – pipes that deservedly amassed a cult following. Eventually, Neeb retired from pipe restoration and sales, but his pipe-making endeavors are, to the relief of many a smoker, not over yet.

This particular Neeb strikes an interesting balance between the stack, the Dublin, and the Bing shapes. It’s a long, large pipe, with an extraordinarily capacious chamber, dressed in a light brown stain that highlights a bowl covered in fantastic flame grain patterns. There’s something a little bit Charatan about it—besides the stem, of course, which has been hand cut from high-grade cumberland ebonite.

Details:

Length: 6.8″ / 172.7mm

Bowl Width: 0.88 / 22.35mm

Bowl Depth: 2.02″ / 51.30mm

Weight: 1.9oz / 54g