Grant Batson (2026) Sandblasted Stack Lumberman (Estate)

About this pipe:

Nashville’s Grant Batson is one of North America’s premier artisan carvers. As a boy, he was deeply interested in art and handicraft, especially woodworking, to the point where, aged just 15, he was building guitars alongside his father. These interests led Batson into a career as a luthier, founding the Batson Guitar Company with his brother, Cory Batson.

Another interest that Batson had maintained since he was a young man, however, was tobacco pipes. Having smoked pipes for nearly two decades, Batson began to see in them a new means of expression for his creative impulses. As it happens, Nashville was by then (and still is) something of a hub for American artisan pipe making, with some of its greatest talents having made their home there. Batson was given the opportunity to study pipe making under the American master Todd Johnson and the Danish master Teddy Knudsen, both of whom had made Tennessee their home.

Drawing on a combination of a wealth of experience in the practical arts, the imparted wisdom of some of the biggest names in contemporary pipe making, and an innate creative drive, Batson departed from the guitar business in 2011 and embarked on a career as a professional pipe maker, which he has remained ever since.

This particular pipe is a very recent example of Batson’s work: a stacked lumberman rendition with a reserved, dark sandblast. At the time it was made, Batson noted that he “almost kept this one” for himself, a sentiment I find myself experiencing given how elegant and lightweight it is.

The condition is very good. Some rim darkening and very slight finish fading. This pipe comes with its original leather sleeve.
Details:

Length: 5.2″ / 132.0mm

Bowl Width: 0.74 / 18.79mm

Bowl Depth: 1.65″ / 41.91mm

Weight: 0.9oz / 26g