Outstanding!??Lovats are my favorite shape. Here are a couple of my favorites: View attachment 78335
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Wow, I am not surprised to learn these are well loved.They are also my favorite shape. Got them all the way from Rossi, Sav, Pete, Stanwell and even a Don Carlos One Note XL. All are great but the Don Carlos has the most amazing grain!
Not really any cooler than any other shape, other than the “cool factor” that attracted me to them in the first place?Wow, I am not surprised to learn these are well loved.
Do you notice they smoke more cool?
I’ve seen those and like them a lotI have only one Lovat, and I'm not sure it qualifies. It is a Johs and has a short shank, hence is not really in the Canadian shape family, yet Mogen Johansen, the Johs carver/owner calls it a Lovat, so I follow suite. It has the billiard bowl and short saddle stem, but the shank is short too. It is a compact pipe and a good smoker, Lovat or not.
I call Canadian shape pipes the stateliest shape, but maybe that's just me.
You’re lucky, the rest of us will now have more competition when we make a bid. ???A lovat is a degradation of the holy straight, which has a long tapered stem and a short shank. The stem should be very finely tapered such as I've seen only twice, one on a George Dibos pipe and the others by Ingo Garbe, such that they could be said to outshine the stummel. The lovat's extended shank, a coarse rendering, makes for but a stub of a stem, the pipe looking like it was made by an untooled pigmy in the heart of the Amazon.
The wrong dimension's trash the shape.
WOW!!!!