Tsuge Yoroi Metal Tankard Gold Sandblasted Poker Estate Briar Pipe, Unsmoked, 9mm

Description

Tsuge is Japan’s largest and most internationally renowned pipe company, having been founded in 1936 by Kyoichiro Tsuge. In the 1970s, however, Tsuge himself was so impressed by the pipes coming out of Denmark, that he sent two of Tsuge’s own master pipe-makers, Kazuhiro Fukuda and Smio Satou, to hone their craft under the likes of Sixten Ivarsson and Jørgen Larsen. Upon their return, the Tsuge Ikebana workshop was established so that Fukuda, Satou, and their apprentices would have the means to create high-grade Japanese pipes to rival even those being made in Europe’s pipe-making capitals. Alongside the Ikebana workshop, Tsuge expanded its range of standard models to reflect the company’s new Scando-Japanese style, including designs by Danish icons such as Jorn Micke and Geert Holbek.

While Tsuge is known for its very Japanese, very post-Scandinavian briars, it is also known for a variety of ultra-modern renditions of more classical pipe shapes. These include their Deringer line, the windshield Thunderstorm line, and their 80th Anniversary series, which included a reverse calabash Rhodesian and a partnership with Kirsten on a unique, metal frame design. The Metal Tankard series, also known as the Yoroi (coming from a Japanese term for armor), is essentially a briar “tankard” poker variant, but it is also fitted with a heat-resistant cap, base, and army mount (that being the “armor” in question). The result is perhaps the sturdiest poker yet conceived in the world of pipes.

This pipe is completely unsmoked, with an original bowl coating, having come from a batch of new old stock pipes from a shop closure. it is chambered to allow for the use of 9mm filters if desired.

 

Details:

Length: 5.5″ / 139.7mm

Bowl Width: 0.84 / 21.33mm

Bowl Depth: 1.84″ / 46.73mm

Weight: 2.0oz / 58g