Nørding: Cut Smooth Acorn (2) Tobacco Pipe

The Acorn is a shape which Erik Nording has produced precious few times, though never in this style, with this particular piece featuring a compressed bowl, creating an almost Shield-like fore end with wide flanks. The heel is quite pronounced, with a soft spur that rises immediately into the shank, the transition above it smooth and nearly parabolic in shape. At the shank end we see a black band of acrylic that leads into a ruby-hued acrylic accent, followed by a demurely curved stem, poising this pipe for comfortable smoking. The warm mahogany stain that dresses this pipe is smooth and reveals some handsome flame grain rounding the bowl.