Smooth Calabash (3) Tobacco Pipe

With copious birdseye covering the rim and upper shank alike, dense and lively flame grain across the flanks, and a smooth, powerfully swooping bit of shaping, this is impressive work by Lasse. As seamlessly smooth as the form is, it really presents a very active, dynamic style - to a degree more typically reserved to rakish, sharp, and angular designs. Of course, such a shape wouldn't be Lasse's style as an artisan - the man is, as we see clear enough here, a master of the curve.

- Eric N. Squires