Brown Smooth Lovat 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."

Traditionally shaped with Billiard bowl, lengthy round shank, and saddle stem, this Lovat from Cavicchi is a handsome specimen of the Canadian family with tight flame grain licking up the walls of the bowl and sides of the shank. Birdseye dots the top and bottom of the shank and rim and heel of the bowl, all of the grain stained a medium walnut hue and finished smoothly enough that the briar reflects light very brightly. The saddle stem is black acrylic and tapers to a wide bit, finishing this excellent work of Cavicchi's with great poise.