Karl Erik Sandblasted Billiard (ROM) (00) Tobacco Pipe

From his teens onward, Karl Erik Ottendahl was immersed in the world of pipes, taking up pipe smoking at age 14 and beginning a lithography apprenticeship at age 16. It was during his apprenticeship that he started making his own pipes, a skill he would continue to hone later in 1962 while working as a lithographer in Nairobi, Kenya. There, his pipe-making skills proved especially handy, as pipes were hard to come by amidst the war-torn country. Upon his return to his homeland of Denmark, he continued making pipes on the side while looking for well-paying work, gradually making a name for himself and later establishing his own workshop. Featured here is a thoroughly Danish-style Billiard by Erik, complete with a sleek saddle stem and finished in a crisp mahogany sandblast.