Dave Neeb Large Smooth Stack Dublin Handmade Briar Pipe, New

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