Tutom Original Fukashiro Make Smooth Billiard with Bamboo (P) (H) (Unsmoked) Tobacco Pipe

Fukashiro Tsutomu is a Tokyo based briar artisan and the sole carver for his company/brand "Tsutomu", as well as his Fukashiro line. Some of the principle differences that separate this high-grade carver from the likes of Hiroyuki Tokutomi, Smio Satou and Kei-ichi Gotoh, are a stronger presence of Danish influences seen in his shape executions, a higher annual production and a decidedly wider price spectrum (with the lion's share of his numbers skewed towards the less time consuming and expensive side of his lines). This unsmoked Fukashiro Tutom Original (P) smooth billiard decidedly falls on the high-grade side of the fence. The shape is sheer perfection, there's nice bamboo work that is reinforced with a metal lining that exits the ferrule as a reverse-tenon and the slotting exhibits the fine vulcanite acumen that one would expect from a master carver.

--Bear Graves