Wow, just wow. SmokingPipes asked American carvers to create a piece for this 2018 Exposition and they didn’t disappoint.
Scott Thile offered up this amazing blasted strawberry wood. Once I saw it I couldn’t pass it up. Haven’t had a strawberry wood yet, so any advice on breaking it in would be greatly appreciated.
Pete Prevost made a breathtaking horn calabash out of horn. Scott Klein did an amazing tomato out of horn with a horn stem. Jeff Gracik did a fantastic Danish style egg out of boxwood with horn accent. Silver Gray did a great HawkDog out of olive wood. Sam Adebayo did a very interesting one using Bakelite for the shank and base of the bowl. Bill Shalosky, Abe Herbaugh, and Scottie Piersel made some incredible pipes out of morta. The crowning jewel is by far Todd Johnson’s where he used a nautilus shell and inserted a briar bowl with aluminum bit between bowl and Bakelite stem. Just incredible work. I’m still stunned by it.
Great collection of pipes from AMAZING American carvers.
Scott Thile offered up this amazing blasted strawberry wood. Once I saw it I couldn’t pass it up. Haven’t had a strawberry wood yet, so any advice on breaking it in would be greatly appreciated.
Pete Prevost made a breathtaking horn calabash out of horn. Scott Klein did an amazing tomato out of horn with a horn stem. Jeff Gracik did a fantastic Danish style egg out of boxwood with horn accent. Silver Gray did a great HawkDog out of olive wood. Sam Adebayo did a very interesting one using Bakelite for the shank and base of the bowl. Bill Shalosky, Abe Herbaugh, and Scottie Piersel made some incredible pipes out of morta. The crowning jewel is by far Todd Johnson’s where he used a nautilus shell and inserted a briar bowl with aluminum bit between bowl and Bakelite stem. Just incredible work. I’m still stunned by it.
Great collection of pipes from AMAZING American carvers.