If The Doodler that I recently posted strained your boundaries of acceptable aesthetics, maybe this one will be more to your liking. It’s a simple Pipeworks Canadian with some subtle shaping elements that I think make it unique.
Pipeworks began in the early 80s when pipe maker, Elliott Nachwalter, and his then wife, tobacconist, Carol Burns, bought the old Wilke Pipe Shop in New York City. The business would operate there for at least a decade before the couple moved to Vermont.
I’m not sure if Nachwalter actually had a hand in the making of this pipe though. The shaping suggests, to me at least, some of the Nachwalter DNA. However, a good friend of mine that has collected many Nachwalter pipes believes that these pipes were produced by a third party, possibly Weber, for sale in the Maddison Avenue shop. There’s certainly a case to be made for that, since Elliott Nachwalter’s name isn’t present anywhere on the pipe and the stem material is not what I would expect from his work (more on that below). Still, I keep coming back to that shape...
Pipeworks began in the early 80s when pipe maker, Elliott Nachwalter, and his then wife, tobacconist, Carol Burns, bought the old Wilke Pipe Shop in New York City. The business would operate there for at least a decade before the couple moved to Vermont.
I’m not sure if Nachwalter actually had a hand in the making of this pipe though. The shaping suggests, to me at least, some of the Nachwalter DNA. However, a good friend of mine that has collected many Nachwalter pipes believes that these pipes were produced by a third party, possibly Weber, for sale in the Maddison Avenue shop. There’s certainly a case to be made for that, since Elliott Nachwalter’s name isn’t present anywhere on the pipe and the stem material is not what I would expect from his work (more on that below). Still, I keep coming back to that shape...