Nording 3 Smooth Freehand Estate Briar Pipe, Danish Estates

Description

Nørding was founded by Erik Nørding in the 1960s, and is one of the oldest remaining companies to come out of the Scandinavian pipe-making renaissance that began in the mid-20th century. Now in his 80s, Erik Nørding is one of the most experienced and skilled pipe-makers in the world, and over the decades he has also been a teacher of other Danish masters, such as Poul Ilsted, Svend Axel Celius, Jens Tao Nielsen, Peder Jeppesen, and Søren Erik Andersen.

Right back to his early career with Age Skovbo, with whom he founded SON (Skovbo og Nording) in the late 1950s, Erik Nording has been a pioneer in the art of what we today call “freehand” pipes. He was instrumental in inaugurating and popularizing the rugged and naturalistic style of the “Danish Fancy,” and though Nording’s workshop has offered pipes in a variety of styles since breaking off from Skovbo in the 1960s, such freehands have remained a staple of his yearly output. As such, if you’re looking to buy a freehand pipe, it’s hard to go wrong with one of Erik’s. This one looks to have been made a few years back, though it bears all of the hallmarks of the genre Nording helped established, from its large stature, to its grain-forward shaping and finishing, to its live plateaux-edge rim.

The condition is fair. Some wear to the rim, handling marks, and chamber slightly over-reamed.

Details:

Length: 6″ / 152.4mm

Bowl Width: 0.79 / 20.06mm

Bowl Depth: 1.87″ / 47.49mm

Weight: 2.1oz / 62g