Smooth Bent Pot (CCCC) 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 flame grain stretching from heel to rim on the bowl of this bent Pot from Cavicchi is greatly accentuated by its smooth finish that shines brightly in the light and blonde stain that gives the briar a very minimal, natural look. The walls are relatively squat as is traditional of this shape, and the fore is straight while the aft slopes down to the muscular, upturned shank. The saddle stem is made of black acrylic and bends in a light arc on its way to the wide bit, finishing a very bright piece with contrast and poise.