Jacono: Smooth Olivewood Stack (Checkmate) Tobacco Pipe

Instead of utilizing olivewood as an accenting material, like many other carvers do, Tonino Jacono crafts entire pipes out of the alternative material. The medium's inky grain patterns and sandy complexion are on full display with this Stack shape. While the Stack is an inherently large shape, being a taller variant of the classic Billiard, this particular rendition is positively towering in terms of height and palm-filling in terms of proportions, as denoted by Jacono's Checkmate size designation. The upscaled proportions lend this piece a bowl-centric silhouette accentuated by the tapering shank-and-stem arrangement that trails out back. Boasting supple, curvaceous walls and a chamber capacity over two inches in depth, this piece should make for a rather robust comfort pipe, and a handsome one at that.