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BurleyVonPuffington

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Feb 26, 2021
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Show us your pipes made in the US state of Tennessee.

Only the pipes have to be from Tennessee, and you can be from any part of the world. Artisans include such names as Scott Klein, Pete Prevost, Bill Shalosky, Micah Redmond, and Sam Adebayo. New artisan Ron of Ranz Freehand pipes is making a splash entry into pipemaking as well. Brands would include of course BriarWorks, Moonshine, and production brands of Scott Klein, mid-level “Scott’s Pipes,” and the daily smoker brand Scott’s “Burners”. I have 13 TN beauties, but only 3 (as of writing) are “artisan pipes”.

I love Tennessee pipes in part because I’m from Tennessee, but how about other folks here? Surely, someone else owns a BriarWorks or Moonshine or Klein or Ranz pipe (I know of some here who do!). Let’s post ‘em up. Show off the surprising amount of pipemaking in a single US state of average size.

The holder is an antique German 7-day pipe holder from around the turn of the 19th-20th century. From left to right we have a Moonshine Stoker (to be included on a separate pic later), as there wasn't room for pipe number 8; BriarWorks smooth brandy with saddle stem; BriarWorks belgique with dark amber stem; Moonshine wire rusticated pot still in all black and saddle stem; BriarWorks small bent apple in black rusticated and light amber brindle stem; BriarWorks short cutty in black rusticated with light amber brindle stem; Moonshine black rusticated cannonball with regular length bent dark amber stem; BriarWorks standard black rusticated bent pot (9mm filter-ready, but smokes great without it, no adapter needed).


German Pipe Holder with 8 BW and MS pipes.JPEG
 

BurleyVonPuffington

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Thank you! And knew there was somebody I was forgetting. Our maker from Brentwood. Apologies! And absolutely gorgeous work. 15 models from a single artisan maker is pretty incredible, too. The blowfish (on it's side so guessing from the flat round section in the front) and the awesome billiard in the solo second pic are my favorites.
 

BurleyVonPuffington

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Last for me, unless and until I buy something else, is my unproven declaration that I also own a former workhorse smoker straight brandy dark brown rusticated BriarWorks, but I'll have to look for it. I think it's in another pipe roll I have, but I can't find that pipe roll right now.
 
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BurleyVonPuffington

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Maybe not exactly Tennessee made, but I made them mine in Tennessee when I bought them in Tennessee.

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We'll allow it! And WOW! What unique looking pieces. I sometimes gripe about over-ornamentation, but I do love antler as an ornament. It's not cheap wood when you already have briar to focus on; it's not fake silver; it's not glitter in a stem; and it's not a piece of sustainable plastic. It's organic, just like the briar is.
 
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BurleyVonPuffington

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I also expect within 24 hours, we'll have some pics of Ron's work at Ranz Pipes in Dandridge, TN, IIRC. I know he has at least one customer here.
 

Chasing Embers

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