Ed Burak Connoisseur Magnum Smooth Cavalier Smooth Estate Briar Pipe, Unsmoked

Known as the “dean of American pipe designers” Ed Burak was not a pipe maker per se. Rather, Burak was someone who worked with the master carvers of his time to bring his distinct ideas of what a pipe could be to life. As the owner of the Connoisseur Pipe Shop, Burak designed freehand pipes so singularly representative of pipe making as an artistic endeavor, that many of the resulting works ended up in New York’s Museum of Modern Art.

While Ed Burak was widely known for his avant-garde shapes, many of which were inspired by musical instruments, he still had time for the classics of pipe design. His preference when it came to those classics, however, was typically quite specific. He liked large, swan neck bent billiards and Oom Pauls, for example, which, despite being very old, traditional designs, fit perfectly with his overall aesthetic, with its marked interest in towering, flowing forms. The cavalier was another shape Burak seems to have been partial to, and presumably for similar reasons. This one is about as close as one can get to the “true” cavalier, for example, with the one thing differentiating it from the renditions of centuries past being the materials involved in its construction—polished and waxed briar and ebonite.

This pipe is completely unsmoked.

Details:

Length: 7.8″ / 198.1mm

Bowl Width: 0.79 / 20.06mm

Bowl Depth: 1.76″ / 44.70mm

Weight: 2.2oz / 64g