Smooth Bent Dublin Tobacco Pipe

From the simple and earthy to the swooping and sculptural, Randy Wiley's individual style of pipemaking covers a lot of ground. This smooth-finished bent Dublin is, rather obviously, very much an example of the latter approach to shaping. as is often the case when he's working in this particular style, as complex as this design may appear it is actually created through the use of only a small number lines - three, in fact - which wind and sweep about the shank and bowl to form a multitude of well-defined plains, channels, and edges.

- Eric N. Squires