Black Sandblasted Bent Brandy Tobacco Pipe

Claudio Cavicchi is not only a renowned pipe maker but also a renowned pipe smoker, having won the Committee International of Pipe Smokers Clubs' slow smoking world championship in 1993 by keeping three grams of tobacco lit for just over three hours and nine minutes. Cavicchi only took up pipe making full-time after a 30-year farming career, turning his first pipe when he decided to make his own Oom Paul rather than continuing to wait for delivery of one he already ordered. Cavicchi pipes are known for their superior grain, with former Pipes and tobaccos magazine editor Chuck Stanion remarking that their titular maker "can read briar as though it were a printed page."

This bent Brandy from Cavicchi is sandblasted and darkly stained over an initial reddish stain, allowing flecks of ruby to be observed and appreciated among the dark waves of ring grain at the forefront. The sandblast manages to at once give the bowl a rich touch to its sloping walls and accentuate the flame grain that stretches up to the rim. From the junction with the dramatically upturned shank, the saddle stem is a wide length of black acrylic with squared shoulders that bends generously on its way to the bit. This work of Cavicchi's manages to be at once sleek and substantial, and thoroughly handsome.