I love Becker pipes. He works a lot with non-traditional wood (i.e. cherrywood, strawberry, and especially morta), and his blast work is second to none. I've been obsessing over one of his morta pipes for months; I just don't have that much cash to spend on a pipe at the moment. But I do have a morta bulldog, and it smokes amazingly well. I can't wait to get another.