Peterson’s Rogha: A Small Batch Release of Natural Virgin Briars

[ssjones]

See Mark Irwin's blog update about the new Rogha Natural Virgin Briars line, released by Sansone. The blasts are outstanding, at least from these photos.
https://petersonpipenotes.wordpress.com/2018/05/03/88-petersons-rogha-a-small-batch-release-of-natural-virgin-briars/

 

[jvnshr]

Amazing, especially the two on the bottom.

 

[anthonyrosenthal74]

I've been wondering if Peterson would get on the unfinished briar bandwagon. I'm hoping I'll be able to get my hands on one of these.

 

[Civil War]

Wow, pretty pipes!

 

[pitchfork]

Rogha (rhymes with "now") is Irish for "choice."

 

[irishearl]

Attractively blasted for sure. I noticed that Peterson did a pipe like that about a year ago for the facebook group Pipes Smokers of Ireland. Wonder if smooth unfinished pipes color differently than rougher finishes. I have an unfinished smooth Shamrock bought years ago which has colored very nicely to a uniform dark brown. But looking at that picture on Mark's blog of the natural heavily smoked Castello, see that the color is not uniform and it is a rusticated 1. Will say that I don't think I'd like a natural that didn't color uniformly.

 

[leacha]

The 80s I just looked at had silver/polishing compound all over the briar near the band.

 

[mso489]

Unfinished pipes: Yes.