Ashton: Brindle Apple (XX) Tobacco Pipe

When it comes to classic renditions of pipe-chart standards, few execute shaping and finishing better than Jimmy Craig of Ashton. The English workshop began in the 1980s when Bill Ashton-Taylor left Dunhill to start his own pipe brand. Since then, the Ashton name has become synonymous with traditional English shapes and immaculate finishes, noted particularly for sandblasting and the use of brindled vulcanite. Here, both of those conventions commend this hearty Apple: Bold and full-bodied, the shape is dressed in a dark sandblast, pairing handsomely with the rust-red and black tones of the cumberland stem.