Sandblasted Bent Brandy Tobacco Pipe

Despite being one very substantial take on the bent Brandy, this Claudio Cavicchi's design flows with superb and easy grace - indeed, the transition and lower bowl are shaped in such a way as to make that broad, stout-walled, deep-chamber chunk of briar seem positively buoyant. Through in a fine sandblast with lots of ring grain up top and plenty of birdseye down below, and it's easy to see why Claudio enjoys the remarkable reputation that he does.

- Eric N. squires