Brown Sandblasted Cherrywood 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."

Slender orbits of sandblast ring the walls of the bowl, which is stained a bright reddish-brown and roundly tapered at the fore, with a straighter wall at the aft. The heel is flat to allow for sturdy sitting, as is traditional of the Cherrywood shape, and the shank is upturned into a black acrylic saddle stem with medium shoulders that bends lightly on its way to the bit. The combination of stain and finish draw the eye easily to this piece, and is certain to keep doing so in a collection of any size.