Smooth Bent Dublin (F) Tobacco Pipe

When it comes to interpreting the classics, few makers do so with the kind of vigor and sense of elegance than do Tsuge. Their Ikebana line shows off the company's strength and strong styling, a sentiment which properly introduces the gorgeous bent Dublin before you. Here, a nearly four-paneled, deeply cambered rim scoops back into a square cut heel, transitioning appropriately into a perfectly proportionate wide and long shank. From the briar terminus, a vamplate saddle stem of vulcanite extends seamlessly from the piece, capturing and maintaining the fluid line composed by the wooden shape. It's a marvelously executed form, complete with some very nice bird's eye grain along the rim, and some fetching straight grain at its flanks.

-- Ted Swearingen