SU Pipes Smooth Volcano Sitter 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.

Sebahattin Urgan’s most recent pipes have seen him exploring unconventional approaches to shaping, moving beyond the more typical Scandinavian staples into unique hybrids and category-defying forms. This one, for example, takes the volcano sitter as its starting point and pulls at its figure, warping the shape into something that appears almost mobile, as if it was modeled not on a volcano per se, but on the eruption that gives rise to it in the first place. This effect is heightened by the bowl’s graining, where a deep red contrast finish brings its fire even further to the fore.

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

Details:

Length: 5.5″ / 139.7mm

Bowl Width: 0.80 / 20.32mm

Bowl Depth: 2.01″ / 51.05mm

Weight: 2.6oz / 74g