HS Studio Sandblasted “Don” Poker w/ Horn Estate Briar Pipe, Unsmoked

Description

If you’ve been keeping up with the world of Chinese pipe making, their artisan scene has been really taking off over the last decade. Like the great Danish institutions of old, many of these pipes are produced in artisan workshops such as Zhiputang, Qi Studio, and GH Zhang. Hong Kong’s HS Studio follows a similar model, with a team of expert in-house carvers crafting high-quality briars in a variety of styles.

Thanks to functionalist champions such as Tom Eltang, the humble poker has remained in vogue in the world of handmade pipes despite the overwhelming tendency toward more “Danish” designs. Here we find the artisans of the HS Studio workshop offering their own poker revival, though in a very different precedent. Fans of the great English pipes of the 20th century might recognize this shape as being a distinct variation on the poker, sometimes known as the “Don,” owing to an old Dunhill design. Just like other pokers, it’s a simple, lightweight sitter, but it’s also decidedly squat, with a long stem and short, mounted shank. In this instance, the shank wears a horn ferrule and the stem is hand cut from a camouflage ebonite, allowing the pipe to keep one foot in the past, and the other firmly in the present.

This pipe is completely unsmoked, with an original bowl coating. It comes with its original sleeve.

 

Details:

Length: 6.2″ / 157.4mm

Bowl Width: 0.77 / 19.55mm

Bowl Depth: 1.38″ / 35.05mm

Weight: 1.2oz / 36g