Let's See All of the Commissions You Had Made
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Of the two I've kept so far, a Jack Howell:
& a Wandi Riyadi:
& a Wandi Riyadi:
50th Birthday Pipe, Joshua Ronish Dragon Briars
Wow, there are some awesome looking pipes there guys, well done. I would be willing to put up our commissions against any other pipe site on the web. Thanks for the nice comments on my commissions.
The deal with Jack is that he has a job he loves and pipe making is a sideline for him. Jack is a Clarinet player with the Pittsburg Philharmonic Orchestra and it is his first love. If it were not for Covid I would have never gotten that many commissions from him. The stars aligned and I got a tip that he was carving again. I had always wanted pipes from him based on people who already owned some.
i made it really easy for him by asking for only a couple of things. I wanted group 4-5 sized pipes, classic shapes like Billiards, Dublins, Rhodesians, Lovat, Paneled Billiards. I didn't ask for any fancy adornments and I just knew he could make a great stem. Of course I wanted nice looking blasts and I never had to say a thing. I had one basic color for the first 7or 8 and then a new color for the rest.
I tried to make it as easy as I could so he could crank mine out before he spent his time on other people. I still have 3 pipes in his que but I am not expecting them anytime soon, Jack is a busy guy. When he is ready he will tell me too crank up Paypal. I honestly don't remember what is in my que but I am sure they will be great.
I was going to have hoosierpipeguy dumped from Jacks list as he is not worthy to smoke one of Jacks pipes. In the end I threw him a bone as he did get me into pipes back around 1999.
The deal with Jack is that he has a job he loves and pipe making is a sideline for him. Jack is a Clarinet player with the Pittsburg Philharmonic Orchestra and it is his first love. If it were not for Covid I would have never gotten that many commissions from him. The stars aligned and I got a tip that he was carving again. I had always wanted pipes from him based on people who already owned some.
i made it really easy for him by asking for only a couple of things. I wanted group 4-5 sized pipes, classic shapes like Billiards, Dublins, Rhodesians, Lovat, Paneled Billiards. I didn't ask for any fancy adornments and I just knew he could make a great stem. Of course I wanted nice looking blasts and I never had to say a thing. I had one basic color for the first 7or 8 and then a new color for the rest.
I tried to make it as easy as I could so he could crank mine out before he spent his time on other people. I still have 3 pipes in his que but I am not expecting them anytime soon, Jack is a busy guy. When he is ready he will tell me too crank up Paypal. I honestly don't remember what is in my que but I am sure they will be great.
I was going to have hoosierpipeguy dumped from Jacks list as he is not worthy to smoke one of Jacks pipes. In the end I threw him a bone as he did get me into pipes back around 1999.
Whilst several of the pipes shown are not to my taste as I like classic shapes I can still apreciate them.
These ones I really like.It is a pity import taxes etc would add roughly another 25 - 30% onto the price otherwise I would probably pull the trigger
I wasnt aware Mike did commissions,very nice
I’ve owned or currently own many Ryan Alden pipes. The only one I actually commissioned was the first, the rest have been opportunistic.
Here it is, a Lovat with saddle stem.
I know I have an 8-Day Matching Set, but here’s the inside baseball. I met Ryan in person at the West Coast Pipe Show years ago. He had a small squashed tomato danish looking pipe. I bought it.
The stem was black and orange Cumberland.
I instantly wanted more, just not Danish style. We then came up with the idea of a 7 day matching set. Then we lost track so it’s an 8 day set.
I do not count this as a commission. I had zero input, except for stain color and stem.
Here it is, a Lovat with saddle stem.
I know I have an 8-Day Matching Set, but here’s the inside baseball. I met Ryan in person at the West Coast Pipe Show years ago. He had a small squashed tomato danish looking pipe. I bought it.
The stem was black and orange Cumberland.
I instantly wanted more, just not Danish style. We then came up with the idea of a 7 day matching set. Then we lost track so it’s an 8 day set.
I do not count this as a commission. I had zero input, except for stain color and stem.
Thats a nice set,ok so I would probably not have chosen the swirl stems but still lovely
I specifically chose those stems in the advent you flew to Vegas and then we went out drinking. The evening progressed as we got more and more shitfaced telling lies about our epic pipe collections and I woke up the next day with pipes missing and an epic hangover.
Planning is everything.
Ha,your not wrong.
I must have a very conservative preference as all my pipes have black stems.
HaHa
We’re cut from the same cloth
I even find Cumberland stems too outre
It took me a while to accept amber and horn stems
Doug Finlay
Size: really big (2 7/8" deep / 15/16 wide chamber)
Smokes SPECTACULARLY well. The best I've ever owned by quite a margin.
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Size: really big (2 7/8" deep / 15/16 wide chamber)
Smokes SPECTACULARLY well. The best I've ever owned by quite a margin.
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I commissioned these two Darth Vader Figural Briar pipes from Oguz Simsek last Fall, one for my friend’s birthday this past March, one for myself, but, they’re not unique in that Oguz offers this design as a regular option in his portfolio. This is the pic Oguz sent me when he completed the pair:
Below is the one I kept for myself:
Below is the one I kept for myself:
I am a big fan of Roman Kovalev's strawberry wood (he calls them strawberry tree) pipes. The grain of strawberry wood is gnarly and produces an eccentric, beautiful blast. He made me this apple in 2021 based on an earlier version from 2020. The pictures are Roman's from his site doc-pipes.com. 
