Trying to describe the myriad of impressions that are locked within this pipe alone, has me reaching for a thesaurus. Trying to describe the sheer impact of this set, in it's totality...? Well, there's a good reason that my cursor has been blinking (in an oddly mocking manner) for roughly the past twenty minutes.

This pipe pushes the limits of what can be achieved in the way of representational, three dimensional art, and still possess all of the superlative smoking qualities of what we have come to expect from a high grade Danish pipe. On the most obvious level, the composition is a hunter's pipe. On a more esoteric plane, we have an immaculate harmony of three of the most significant geometric shapes; the circle, the square, and the rectangle. The outer rim is a perfect circle of boxwood, which bevels to the interior perfect circle of briar. This circle reduces, with delicious regularity, down a body that features heavenly cross cut grain and impossibly dense birdseye. The boxwood at the mount is the event horizon for the triangle, and the vulcanite blade to follow. The "blade" (bit) is incredible, the likes of which I have never encountered. The spine features a serration, as any good hunting knife would, and the hollow ground of the blade is deftly represented. The square (rectangle) of the briar representing the log is smooth on the sides, and ripples with plateau atop. As a set, anyone walking into a room could be forgiven if they assumed that a friend or admirer had gifted you the ultimate desk accessory for an aficionado of the hunt. I can only imagine their surprise, as you pack your "knife" with you favorite tobacco. I can definitely imagine the smile on your face, as you take those first amazing puffs.

--Bear Graves