Have any of you owned an Andreas Bennwik pipe? If so, what are your impressions of his skill? I'm particularly interested in the engineering and his stem work. I have this pipe reserved, awaiting feedback from my rep at SP.
Andreas Bennwik
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Drop dead beautiful, that one. Buy it before it falls into foreign hands!
Never mind the pipe, it is worth the price just to be able to say the name Andreas Bennwik. If he wasn't a pipe carver, he should be the protagonist in a novel. Andreas Bennwik; tell me that's not fun to say. My spell check hates it.
I have a killer billiard w/boxwood he made in 2014. Snagged it unsmoked from the DPS awhile back. So far no complaints at all!
I’m a big fan of Andreas’ work and he’s easily one of the most underrated artisans of the past few years. He’s an extremely talented visual artist/graphic designer and it shows in his pipes. This piece is a great find!
yeah that is nice the top of the bowl doesn't look silly but natural which is hard to pull off with those kind of proportions.
Looks good to me. I have a similarly shaped Elliot Nachwalter that I love.
Really lovely pipe!Looks good to me. I have a similarly shaped Elliot Nachwalter that I love.
My rep who's evaluating it had been tied-up with IPSD craziness. He just got back to me. The one thing I'm a bit concerned about is that the chamber is sharply conical, which isn't at all a surprise. I'm not wild about conical chambers. So, I'll chew on it tonight and decide tomorrow. Leaning towards buying it.
I never noticed any difference in the burn in a conical chamber, but you may be sensitive to that.
I love the form!
I love the form!
It's not the burn that bothers me -- it's the tendency to gurgle. I own literally hundreds of pipes. The only ones that I ever experience problems with gurgling have conical chambers. This includes two high-grade pipes. One Benni Jorgensen and also a W.Ø. Larsen Straight Grain 7. Jeff Gracik has said that he would not make a pipe with a conical chamber because all the moisture is drained to a small point right at the draft hole. That said, I have some pipes with conical chambers which do not gurgle. Of course, this can be managed with a pipe cleaner, provided that the pipe allows one to pass into the bowl without removing the stem.
Final words: knowing your history, as there a lot of beautiful pipes out there, I don't know as I'd ever buy another with such a chamber.
