Sasquatch Big Ol Bent

[odanrot]

Sasquatch helped out a new pipe smoker (me) a few weeks ago as I was looking for an American pipe.
I think it looks fantastic. As a former Army officer, I really like the weird camouflage stem. Fits me perfectly.
But the important question....how does it smoke? Great draw and just smokes really well. Really well. And it holds a TON of tobacco!
This is only my third pipe....I really like it!

 

[odanrot]

Well....I can't seem to post pics from Imgur. I'll work on it.

http://imgur.com/UvhCfTf

 

[odanrot]

 

[odanrot]

 

[leacha]

The man can make a pipe! Congrats!

 

[cigrmaster]

Great looking pipe, love the birdseye and the grain. Glad to hear you love how it smokes, congrats on a fine addition to your collection.

 

[odanrot]

Let me clarify in respect to Sasquatch.....NORTH American....not just American pipe maker.

 

[codecreatively]

Now you've done it, it's all downhill from here. You can never go back ::

 

[codecreatively]

P.s. I have a matching pair of Todd's bents and they smoke unbelievably well. I can set them down for several minutes, pick them up and with a little puff and a tamp they're going again. Bloody marvelous. You're in for a treat as you get to know that pipe!

 

[ejames]

Nice ! That stem is cool !

 

[ssjones]

The man knows how to make a bent billiard (I think the Castello 65 is a favorite shape of his and inspiration. I like that cross-grain stem as well!

 

[pagan]

THAT is nice!

 

[sasquatch]

Yeah the comfort and fluidity, the sort of almost feminine curvature that the best 65s have I do like a lot, and if you mix in a little of the more rigid, sparser approach of Dunhill (I find the older french factory pipes lack the real nice curves of the old dunhills), you probably wind up with something in the neighborhood of what I like the most both aesthetically and as a smoker. The Italian pipes have a LOT of wood on the bowl and I think that helps the real slow burn approach.
Been playing with a very old Dunny shape, a 124, of which very few examples seem to have been produced.

 

[ssjones]

Wow, that Sas 124 is beautiful! I've never seen a 124 Dunnie before but that shape is captivating!

 

[jpmcwjr]

They are both beauties! Thanks for posting the photos.

 

[sasquatch]

That shape occurs in the "About Smoke" catalog of I think 1928. Upper right hand corner of the swan-neck page:

And I tracked that down trying to figure out what Ronald Howard (in full Sherlock guise) is smoking in this picture - to my eye it's clearly a Dunhill, the question is, what the hell shape is it? Full bodied, graceful, and only slightly elongatated.... what else could it be?

Anyway, there's a thread officially highjacked (but for the greater good!), my apologies.

 

[jpmcwjr]

OMG! Imagine drilling the shank on those beauties!

 

[sasquatch]

The original LCs proper were actually done with a curved-drilling in French factories. You can get pretty close with a straight drill but it's very precarious. Ser Jacopo still has machinery to do this, it leaves a fairly wide airway (1/4" kinda thing) because it's a weird boring-head on a curved shank, driven by a flexible shaft inside the shank.

 

[disinformatique]

Thats a lovely Dunnie shape Todd, would love to get one from you in the near future.
Chris

 

[newbroom]

I like the concept and your work is most excellent!

My old Dunhill bent shell always impresses me with the perfect compact and finished lines it has.

It seems to belie its bowl capacity.

Mine is from 1954. #656 and doesn't have the same swan feature.

More information on how you accomplished the drilling on the 124 would be cool!