Sandblasted Bent Dublin Sitter (Lion) Tobacco Pipe

This pipe would qualify as large, pretty much by any carver's standards, and the shape as well as unflaggingly brilliant grain qualifies this fascinating composition for Lasse Skovgaard Jorgensen's highest grading nomenclature: Lion. While there is little denying some of the 'shroom aspects to the rim of this rock solid sitter, that subtly upturned "spoiler" at the rear of the rim imbues the pipe with some additional, cool dimensions that one doesn't associate with a mushroom.

--Bear Graves