Johs Sandblasted Large Panel Brandy (Estate)

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.

As with many of the pipes he carved for Bjarne, Mogens Johansen’s output tends to sit on the borderline between the freeform “Danish fancy” approach to pipe design, and the more classical style associated with his nation’s artisan scene. In other words, there’s often a recognizable shape to them, but one imbued with a healthy dose of naturalism as regards shaping. This one is a large, stacked, panel brandy, for instance, with a deep, ring grain blast running around its faceted form.

The condition is great. Lightly smoked.

Details:

Length: 6.5″ / 165.1mm

Bowl Width: 0.89 / 22.60mm

Bowl Depth: 1.91″ / 23.11mm

Weight: 2.1oz / 60g