Smooth Acorn with Bamboo (Club Special) Tobacco Pipe

Paolo Becker and Massimo Musico crafted Becker & Musico pipes together, with Paolo on the lathe and Massimo focusing on mouthpieces and bands, until 2002 when Paolo turned to crafting pipes under his own name. Today, Massimo continues to make pipes under the Foundation brand, with a particular focus on slight deviations from typical Anglo-French shapes.

This Acorn is a bowl-centric piece, fronted by a nearly two-inch-deep bowl decorated with lovely flame grain, finished smoothly and colored with a warm mahogany stain. The bowl is only gently tapered and curved to accomplish the Acorn shape, then backed with a stub of a slender briar shank before yielding to a single-knuckle length of bamboo. A stem of vulcanite stretches well back from the bamboo to finish this piece, which weighs in barely above one ounce despite a generous length of 6.35 inches.