Yeah, I like the looks of that too. I have two Rattray's pipes and find them to be great smoking pipes. I don't know about yours, but both of mine take 9mm filters, and sometimes I use a Savinelli balsa wood filter but mostly I don't use any. Neither of mine have a filter adapter to use without the filter, but I haven't seen the need for one. Let us know how yours smokes and what you think overall about it.