Dunhill LC Pipes & Modern Iterations

[Honkytonk Man]

Right. Most of you know, I like Dunhill pipes.
I like large Dunhill pipes, however in the morning I smoke a G4 bulldog, evening time, I switch up to G6. Anyways, all that aside. I’ve been doing some research on the Dunhill LC. Now, I’ve never really been a bent pipe kind’a guy, all but one of my Dunhills are straight.but the LC, for some reason has caught my eye.
I know that they’re as rare as McCleland Christmas Cheer 1993, but! Some frasers/artisans have crafted they’re own take on the LC . My question being.
Do any of you fellow Dunhill fanciers or any of you other pipers have any experience of the Dunhill LC shape copies?

 

[Rpink53]

Yes, connect with @sasquatch aka BST Pipes. I had two commissioned through him and they are incredible pipes. Mine are both big, 70-80 grams, and provide 2+ hour smokes:

 

[Honkytonk Man]

Yes, connect with @sasquatch aka BST Pipes. I had two commissioned through him and they are incredible pipes. Mine are both big, 70-80 grams, and provide 2+ hour smokes:
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Oh boy!
They’re real nice examples of the LC!

 

[pauls456]

Max Capps is something of an LC specialist. He has his own website.

 

[Honkytonk Man]

Just took a quick look at BSTpipes, daddy likes!
Thanks for the information!

 

[Honkytonk Man]

Max Capps is something of an LC specialist. He has his own website.
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Oh my !
They are sweet!

 

[Rpink53]

Just took a quick look at BSTpipes, daddy likes!
Thanks for the information!

Maybe @tfdickson would share a photo of his smooth BST. It is superb.

 

[Honkytonk Man]

Max Capps is something of an LC specialist. He has his own website.
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The transition from bowl to shank is unbelievable

 

[pauls456]

I own two of his pipes, and they are very nice. He uses curved drilling to get those amazing transitions.

 

[Honkytonk Man]

Maybe @tfdickson would share a photo of his smooth BST. It is superb.

Let’s ask him!

 

[Honkytonk Man]

I own two of his pipes, and they are very nice. He uses curved drilling to get those amazing transitions.

Post a photo!
If you’d like.

 

[Honkytonk Man]

Yes, connect with @sasquatch aka BST Pipes. I had two commissioned through him and they are incredible pipes. Mine are both big, 70-80 grams, and provide 2+ hour smokes:
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The lower one has a fantastic “ring grain” from what I can see

 

[tfdickson]

Thanks @Rpink53 , completely agree with your assessment of BST in general and his LC shapes in particular. Here is mine, I took this photo when I was smoking it last night:



Its nearly 7” from button to chin, 2.5” high, with a 0.875” x 2.25” chamber. It’s drilled entirely conventionally, no ramping and no curved bits. Passes a long cleaner without any trouble at all. It’s one of my very favorite pipes.

 

[tfdickson]

By the way, I laid my BST LC next to the Dunhill LC pictured in their 1928 catalog and the shaping is a dead match.

 

[sasquatch]

Gustavo Cunha (Maretlo pipes) does some fun LC stuff, Michael Parks does a version... but they are few and far between. Difficult, treacherous, and far easier to do badly than correctly.

 

[sasquatch]

Oh Robert Telfer too, and like Max, he's doing curved drilling. My pipes are conventionally drilled. (Edit I suppose it's JUST possible that Max's pipes as shown are a straight drilling.) The original LCs were not, they were curve-drilled in some French factory.

 

[jpmcwjr]

Gustavo Cunha (Maretlo pipes) does some fun LC stuff, Michael Parks does a version... but they are few and far between. Difficult, treacherous, and far easier to do badly than correctly.

It's Martelo....Link to Cunha's website.

Was fortunate to snap one of his a few years ago. Beautifully made.

 

[sasquatch]

Whoops, yeah typo.

 

[Honkytonk Man]

Oh Robert Telfer too, and like Max, he's doing curved drilling. My pipes are conventionally drilled. (Edit I suppose it's JUST possible that Max's pipes as shown are a straight drilling.) The original LCs were not, they were curve-drilled in some French factory.

Yeah, I’m after something as close to the original as possible, curved drilling is what I’m looking for.
Thanks for the information, I appreciate it.

 

[Honkytonk Man]

A long curved stummle, to create the swan neck.