Nate Rose Partially Sandblasted “Espresso” w/ Italian Lucite Briar Pipe, New

Description

As I always say, when it comes to pipe makers, what Canada lacks in quantity it more than makes up for in quality. Nate Rose is no exception. A former student of the legendary Canadian artisan Michael Parks, Rose first turned his expertise as an automotive engineer into a career as a pipe maker in the mid-2010s. One of his first endeavors in this vein was a collaboration with Michael Parks on the Commonweal project, which Parks personally selected Rose for. Commonweal pipes took their name from the British Commonwealth, as they were made from stummels turned by Les Wood, of Ferndown, which Parks finished and Rose cut stems for. Though he remains firm friends with Parks, Rose operates as a purely solo carver these days, putting out high-grade pipes via his Rose Pipes. Mixing a expressed fondness for classic Anglo-French shapes with a genuinely experimental streak, Rose can be counted alongside some of his fellow countrymen, such as Parks, Julius Vesz, and Todd Bannard, as well as others in the wider artisan scene, as a pipe maker at the very forefront of the contemporary neoclassical movement.

There are few things Canada’s Nate Rose loves more than a good cup of coffee. If you catch him on a livestream, working in his shop, you’ll rarely find him without a bowl and a brew, sipping away at both as he puts a new pipe together. And when your career is one of making things, you tend to make things that reflect the other things you cherish. The “Espresso” is a new signature shape of Rose’s. As the name suggests, the pipe’s form is essentially modeled on that of a coffee bean, though it should be noted that, in being so, it also has a few things in common with certain other Rose Pipes signatures. Oval bowls feature prominently in Rose’s portfolio, for instance, whether as part of his opera variations, or simply in the ways he often approaches Dublins and other shapes. In the case of the Espresso, it’s more like a slightly narrowed apple shape, or a cross between an apple and a disc blowfish, seen here dressed in a crisp, ring grain tan sandbast and fitted with a tortoisehell Italian Lucite mouthpiece.

Details:

Length: 5.4″ / 137.1mm

Bowl Width: 0.73 / 18.54mm

Bowl Depth: 1.40″ / 35.56mm

Weight: 1.5oz / 44g