My Beautifully Ugly Pipe

[a3zname]

Hey!
Just received this pipe from SP EU, and i wanted to share a feeling,
When i saw this pipe, my initial reaction was that this one is a fruit of a twisted mind.
UGLY.
The more i looked at it, it just talked to me. This Castello old antiquary has the balance of both beautiful blast where you grab the pipe - where it matters, and packed with birdseye when you can look at it while you hold it.

It is pretty lightweight for that bend, and clenching is fairly easy. also a sturdy sitter.
Smokes superbly!

Anyone else had this kind of feeling? or this shape?

 

[Country Bladesmith]

I don’t think it’s ugly at all. I like how the silhouette of the shank is echoed in the stem. Unusual, but I wouldn’t call it ugly. Nice find.

 

[gamzultovah]

I’ll see your ugly pipe (which I think is quite handsome) and raise you this Tarok Briar. ?

 

[saltedplug]

Your Tarok Briar looks ominous, organic in an unknown form. I also like how the designed lines descent into the stem so that it looks all of a piece.

 

[alaskanpiper]

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I’ll see your ugly pipe (which I think is quite handsome) and raise you this Tarok Briar. ?

ISLA NUBLAR!!!!

 

[mso489]

'Looks like a good stolid sitter to me, good deep bowl and some really nice finish all around.

 

[Sonorisis]

If you called that a partially sandblasted cherrywood, you'd be correct. But, of course, that wouldn't tell the whole story.

If the people at Castello didn't have the liberty to explore the envelope of pipe shape, we wouldn't have the Hawkbill, 55, 223, 10, Bent Dublin, or any of the myriad variations of the bent bulldog.

Leave those guys alone. Buy it, or don't buy it, but don't offer an opinion of the pipe's aesthetics unless someone forces you.

 

[didimauw]

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I’ll see your ugly pipe (which I think is quite handsome) and raise you this Tarok Briar. ?

Like something a fish monster man guy would smoke....

 

[badbriar]

That Castello is AMAZING ! Gorgeous pipe!

 

[scloyd]

It's not ugly, it's unique. I like it.

 

[didimauw]

And that Castello, as I don't like the shape and would never own one, I wouldn't call it ugly at all.

 

[Scottishgaucho]

Lisa Gherardini was no Miss World and look what happened to her.

 

[Mr.Mike]

That looks like it would smoke shag great!