Natural Smooth Billiard (L2) Tobacco Pipe

It's hard to imagine a briar composition more simple than a stripped-down straight billiard; no trim, no fancy flourishes, no whimsical massacring of proportion. But as any artist worth their salt will tell you: If you can't execute the simplest forms and lines beautifully, all you're ever likely to make is a series of pretentious messes, with the occasional passable work producing itself out of a combination of shear luck and force of numbers. This smooth, refined neoclassical billiard, I believe, stands as pretty good evidence that Ser Jacopo has thoroughly mastered the basics upon which it builds its more fanciful Pictas, calabashes, and the like.

- Eric N. Squires