Bill Shalosky: Smooth Natural Volcano (492) Tobacco Pipe

A pipe brimming with personality, this immaculately smooth and polished natural pipe from Bill Shalosky reveals tight filaments of grain rising vertically around the bowl to the neatly beveled rim. The most prominent feature here is the underside, which curls dramatically upward to both shank and bowl from its lowest point beneath the transition. It's a long, curving panel populated by an impressive array of birdseye. The end of the shank is slightly domed, but in profile still offers an impression of abrupt termination before introducing the saddle mouthpiece. Few pipes can boast the tight grain offered here, and in such a unique and creative shape it will monopolize your attention well into the future.