Who's Making Classic Shapes?

[paulfg]

+1 for Michael Kyriazanos,his interpretation of classic shapes are great and excellent smokers

 

[ssjones]

Michail Kyriazanos has been making some beautiful classic shapes, I follow him on Facebook.

A recent favorite:

And my lone Kyriazanos, an interpretation of a 1920's era Comoy's shape.

This bulldog set is still available at Smoking Pipes

 

[lordofthepiperings]

[/quote]I'll add another vote for Scottie Piersel. Her Scottie pipes follow in the classical English tradition and her pipes are great smokers. Also, her prices are affordable. I have six of them and all are a pleasure to smoke.

I actually just bought my first Scottie Piersel. It’s a blasted medium brown stain straight Dublin with a plateau rim and a creamy white vulcanite stem in her “Driving Scottie Pipe” style (just over 4.5” bowl to stem) in her famous pencil shank style.. Very light, weighing in at just under 23 grams. Very excited to get it and have a break in bowl. I’ve been wanting a pencil shanked Scottie pipe for a few years now and since I’m collecting American carvers I feel a pencil shanked Scottie Piersel is a must.

 

[mso489]

I guess it's a point of discussion, but it seems to me that Danish freehands have become a classic shape since they surfaced around the sixties. One of the reigning masters of these is Eric Nording, and he makes them all the way up and down the price spectrum from excellent factory pipes to artisan up-market pipes. So maybe the way to phrase it is traditional shapes pre-dating Danish freehands, or something like that. Believe me, I've seen a number of the depressing imitations of this style, but the good ones are ... good.