Herriot Pipes Rusticated Panel Shank Rhodesian 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. Like Nuttens, Herriot knows the worth of good briar, some of which he uses for his Fledgling series (crafted from seasoned, pre-turned stummels from the Saint-Claude campuses) and some that he uses for his Hand Made pipes (crafted from choice blocks of plateaux briar).

Here we find one of Herriot’s Hand Made pipes, taking the form of a pebble-dash rusticated panel shank Rhodesian, with notable influences from the Danish and Italian traditions, as well as his mentor, Nuttens. Compact and relatively lightweight, this one should make for an excellent travel pipe, with its ebonite stem making for a comfortable clencher.

Details:

Length: 5″ / 127.0mm

Bowl Width: 0.74 / 18.79mm

Bowl Depth: 1.57″ / 39.87mm

Weight: 1.4oz / 42g