Smooth Ramses (Diamond) Tobacco Pipe

Peter Heding's interpretation of Bo Nordh's famous Ramses shape is becoming iconic. He's made a handful of them now and they've graced magazines, advertisements and have generally become a very visible part of his repertoire. It's easy to see why. It's a shape that is extremely difficult to engineer properly, execute with the correct proportions and 'find' in a block of briar. That Peter has done so on all accounts is a testament to his skill as a pipe maker.

This is a tremendously well grained pipe, with the grain flowing backwards over the bowl, terminating into extraordinary birdseye on the back surface of the pipe. The way he handles the edges of the rounded 'plate' upon which the bowl lies is softer and more organic than Bo's original. Similarly the stem flows more freely, less starkly than Bo's original. Peter has definitely made this shape his own and created something truly special in the process.

-- Sykes Wilford