Sebastian Heck Sandblasted Acorn w/ Juma Handmade Strawberry Briar Pipe, New

Description

Sebastian Heck is part of younger generation of highly skilled artisans to have emerged from Germany in recent years. Based in Heidelberg, Heck took up pipe smoking—and, ultimately, pipe-making—as part of a conscious effort toward slowing down in an otherwise constantly accelerating modern world. Like many pipe makers, Heck took his first steps into the craft as a restorer of estate and heirloom pieces, which in time brought with it an expansion of his workshop and the tools housed within it. With this as a base, creating new pipes of his own was a natural progression. Heck’s development has been greatly influenced by the Danish and German schools of pipe design, and has included time spent learning directly from fellow German artisans, such as Dirk Heinemann.

While not as common as tree heater briar, strawberry briar, or Arbutus Unedo, is nonetheless a staple material for artisan pipe making, in part because of its unique response to sandblasting. Being slightly softer than its sister root, even a light blast is enough to bring out strawberry briar’s deep grain patterns, as demonstrated by pipes from makers as diverse as Chris Morgan, Chris Askwith, and Federico Becker. Here we find Germany’s Sebastian Heck putting that same gnarly texturing to work in a very modern rendition of the Danish acorn. Dressed in a ripe red, slight contrast finish, the relief is almost lunar in look and feel, which juxtaposes nicely with the pipe’s clean-cut, ivory-like Juma accent and jet-black SEM ebonite stem.

Details:

Length: 6.4″ / 162.56mm

Bowl Width: 0.79 / 20.06mm

Bowl Depth: 1.20″ / 30.48mm

Weight: 1.6oz / 46g