SU Pipes Smooth Cherrywood Sitter w/ Bamboo Handmade Briar 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.

In the case of this pipe, one can see parallels between its elementary form and the poker and cherrywood revivals ushered in by Danish functionalists such as Tom Eltang. Rather than follow the path taken by Eltang and disciples such as Mike Bay, Urgan’s rendition is decidedly stout and sturdy, with a towering bowl lit up by cross-grain and bird’s-eye. Combined with the thicker species of bamboo used for the pipe’s shank extension, the overall design incorporates both the ergonomic simplicity of the Danish schools with the more muscular figure typically found in pipes carved from meerschaum.

Note that as this is one of Urgan’s higher end pieces, it comes with a custom-fitted hard case.
 

Details:

Length: 5.6″ / 142.2mm

Bowl Width: 0.74 / 18.79mm

Bowl Depth: 2.04″ / 51.81mm

Weight: 1.9oz / 54g