Johs Sandblasted Dublin Sitter 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.

Drawing on his wealth of experience with Bjarne Nielsen and beyond, Mogens Johansen’s pipes tend to be less “flashy” than those of other Danish artisans, concentrating instead on something Johansen is particularly good at: shaping. As with another Johs pipe listed recently, this one is superbly cut, taking the form of a paneled, bent Dublin sitter. The finishing is a subdued, dark sandblast, though this hasn’t stopped it from being especially tactile, with deep ring grain circling the entirety of the bowl.

The condition is good. Some charring of the inner rim and slight finish fading

Details:

Length: 5.4″ / 137.1mm

Bowl Width: 0.93 / 23.62mm

Bowl Depth: 1.59″ / 40.38mm

Weight: 2.3oz / 68g