Johs Sandblasted Acorn Cherrywood Estate Briar Pipe, Danish Estates

Description

Denmark’s Mogens “Johs” Johansen made his first pipe in 1983, beginning as a self-taught artisan while receiving guidance from his friend, the late Peter Hedegaard. Johs established his own workshop in the mid-1980s, with his pipes quickly garnering significant acclaim. In fact, Joh’s became such a sensation in the Danish pipe smoking community that, at one point, he had to close his doors to the wider public as he was getting so many visitors that it was interrupting his work. Among the growing number of admirers of Johs’s work was none other than the legendary Bjarne Nielsen, who snapped up the former to make Bjarne pipes in 1992. Alongside Tonni Nielsen, Ph. Vigen, and Ole Bandholm, Johs ultimately became one of the main craftsmen behind the Bjarne brand. After Nielsen’s sudden passing in 2008, Johs returned his focus to making pipes under his own name, while also running the Gaden Pibemagerie pipe shop with his wife, Doris. As is common in the Danish artisan community, Johs has since paid forward the debt owed to his debt to Hedegaard by helping to cultivate newer generations of pipe makers, mentoring artisans such as Knud Bech, Johannes Hoffman, Dieter Gottschling.

If you’re familiar with Johs’s work, you’ll know that he has a keen eye for shaping, developed over ten decades in the craft. This pipe is a good example of that. A hybrid of the traditional cherrywood and more modern, Scandinavian acorn shapes (including a plateaux rim), it’s a nifty, forward-thinking design, something emphasized further by its modest color palette.

The condition is very good. Minor rim darkening and slight finish fading, and stem ever so slightly over-buffed at the base, but nothing major.

 

Details:

Length: 5.9″ / 149.8mm

Bowl Width: 0.84 / 21.33mm

Bowl Depth: 1.78″ / 45.21mm

Weight: 2.0oz / 58g