Herriot Pipes Partially Sandblasted Bent Dublin Handmade Briar Pipe, New

Description

In 2003, one of France’s preeminent pipe luminaries, Erwin Van Hove, jubilantly proclaimed, “Hallelujah! One of the very best American artisans has recently settled on French soil.” Two decades later, Antoine Grenard, director of Chapuis-Comoy and president of the Confrérie des Maîtres-Pipiers de Saint-Claude, oversaw the induction of another artisan originally from the Anglophone world into its hallowed brotherhood. Van Hove was, of course, welcoming Trever Talbert. The Confrérie, on the other hand, was welcoming Chris Herriot. Parallels between the two are difficult to ignore; both were outsiders who laid down roots in France and, crucially, thrived by it. Both forged connections with the Francophone pipe community, developing friendships and associations that would help them lay the foundations of their respective brands. And both would build something on these foundations that garnered them significant national and international acclaim. In Herriot’s case, this meant apprenticing under Bruno Nuttens (himself a former student of Pierre Morel and Tom Eltang), spending several days each week laboring in Nuttens’ Charpey workshop, and the rest of his time in his own.

While Chris Herriot carves a healthy number of freehand shapes these days, he hasn’t forgotten his roots in more classical forms. This Dublin, for example, has one foot firmly in the world of early briars, albeit with the precision craftsmanship of a contemporary artisan. Like the Dublins of old, this one is compact, lightweight, and slightly understated in its basic figure. On the other hand, unlike most pipes from the turn of the century, this one wears a tight, ring grain sandblast, a bare-all tan finish, and is fitted with a mouthpiece hand-cut from high-grade cumberland rod.

Details:

Length: 5″ / 127.0mm

Bowl Width: 0.71 / 18.03mm

Bowl Depth: 1.59″ / 40.38mm

Weight: 0.9oz / 28g