Tom Eltang: Smooth Knife Pipe with Stand and Tamper (Snail) Tobacco Pipe

Master craftsman, artisan, eccentric. In no particular order, these are all easily terms that could describe the affable (there's another one) Tom Eltang who, taking a playful concept, has furnished us with one seriously crafted pipe. With boxwood at the mount/guard and rim, and a vulcanite stem fashioned in the likeness of a serrated hunting blade, Tom has chosen some very select briar for the Horn-like bowl itself, with a good mix of cross-cut and birdseye grain, and stained in a high contrast auburn, it's truly worthy of Tom's Snail grading.

Also included are a dagger-like tamper — fashioned from briar, vulcanite and horn — and a stand, itself made from plateau briar.

- Adam O'Neill