Scottie Piersel: Sandblasted Pencil Shank Dublin Tobacco Pipe

Scottie Piersel's pencil-shanked pipes are among the most recognizable smoking instruments available, the American artisan's signature aesthetic dramatizing the relational proportions between bowl and shank. It's a optical illusion of sorts: the impossibly slender shank seemingly unfit to support such a comparatively massive bowl. Scottie's renowned engineering, though, makes such a feat possible. Despite being shaped to such a narrow diameter, each of her pencil shanks is lined with a stainless steel tube from transition to shank end, ensuring the utmost strength and durability. This Dublin might seem delicate, but it's anything but — the steel reinforcement promising lifelong reliability and enabling hands-free enjoyment.

Length-wise, this offering is fairly balanced between bowl and shank compared to Scottie's more regularly produced, lengthy iterations. In fact, because of the bowl's more slender nature, the pencil shank is made a touch less dramatic. Such proportions also result in a deep chamber and lightweight profile overall. In profile, the bowl rises in a subtle flare and balanced forward cant to a smooth-polished rim that's neatly chamfered. The rest of the stummel is finished in an earthy tanblast of rich contrast, paired to one of Scottie's oft-used brindled vulcanite stems — this one of striking pink, brown, and green tones.