SU Pipes Smooth Acorn w/ Bamboo Handmade Block Meerschaum Pipe, New

Description

You may have wondered, as I often do, what would happen if professional meerschaum carver was to turn their attention to briar wood, and to make pipes out of that instead. While many early briar pipe manufacturers, such as Frederick Charatan, made just such a transition back in the late 19th century, both briar and meerschaum pipe manufacture have changed significantly in the century since, making for an interesting opportunity. Enter Sebahattin Urgan of SU Pipes, former apprentice to Eskişehir’s master of meerschaum Emre Bay and now an expert carver in his own right. Urgan’s talents have in recent years extended to handcrafting briar pipes, having been greatly inspired by the legends of Scandinavian and post-Scandinavian design.

Of course, Sebahattin Urgan still carves meerschaum pipes in addition to his briars, but he also brings to the former the styles and techniques he’s honed from making the latter. In this case, the pipe is a very Scandinavian acorn with a very Scandinavian precedent. Just as Urgan paid tribute to the late Hiroyuki Tokutomi in another recent creation, here he does the same for the late—or, as Bulgakov said of Dostoevsky, immortal—Sixten Ivarsson. Drawing on the bamboo shank Peewit designs Sixten Ivarsson is so fondly remembered for, Urgan has paid homage to one particularly voluptuous rendition from the 1970s. As his medium here is meerschaum, Urgan has scaled up Ivarsson’s design a little, giving it a little more heft (though at the same time, retaining its lightness in weight), while also adding a more modern accent and stem cut from stone-gray German ebonite. Furthermore, and unlike most Peewit renditions, this one comes with a custom-fitted case.

Details:

Length: 5.4″ / 137.1mm

Bowl Width: 0.80 / 20.32mm

Bowl Depth: 1.65″ / 41.91mm

Weight: 1.3oz / 38g