Md. Angga Rusticated Squat Brandy/ w Bamboo Handmade Briar Pipe, New

About this pipe:

As with other forms of art and craft, pipe making has a curious tendency to “run in the family.” Denmark, of course, is famous for its pipe making dynasties, such as the successive generations of Ivarsson, Chonowitsch, and Balleby pipes. The same holds for the Morel family in France and the Blatter family in Canada. There are also instances where siblings make pipes together, such as in the cases of Blatter Bros and Vollmer & Nilsson. And there are also examples where two or more siblings from the same family will make pipes individually, as Sven Knudsen and Teddy Knudsen did before and after their brief Dantonian partnership.

This latter example is most apt to describe two brothers from Indonesia with seemingly genetic talents for pipe making: Wandi Riyadi and Md. Angga. While Angga has learned plenty from his brother Riyadi over the years, he’s also managed to step out of his brother’s increasingly large shadow and to carve his own path.

In the case of this one, that “carving” is quite literal. Wandi Riyadi is one of a relatively small number of high-end artisan carvers to frequently rusticate his pipes (at least, in a manner far removed from the renowned Italian pebble-dash approach). Md. Angga also utilizes rusticated finishes, though unlike Riyadi’s “ring grain” style hewing, Angga typically proceeds by way of stepped layers, as if the bowl were a budding thistle. It’s an interesting look, one made all the more interesting in this case by way of a squat, brandy-like figure and bamboo shank extension.

Details:

Length: 5.9″ / 149.8mm

Bowl Width: 0.71 / 18.03mm

Bowl Depth: 1.37″ / 34.79mm

Weight: 2.1oz / 60g