Tonino Jacono Smooth Dublin (Jack)

[bentmike]

My First Estate Pipe!

 

[mp31guitar]

Great looking pipe. Hope it smokes as good as it looks.

 

[hawk60ce]

Awesome! Love It!

 

[weezell]

bentmike,very nice pick there my friend!The Weez..

 

[deleon]

Beauty!!

 

[eaglerico]

Wow. That is really nice. I really like the inlay in the stem. Nice grab. By the looks of the thickness of the bowl looks like it would take a lot to get it hot. That what I look for.

 

[pipeshark]

What a beautiful pipe. Congratulations indeed. That north south stuff is great but I love that weaving Birdseye coolness on the shank!! ::

 

[bentmike]

Thanks guys for the comments.
I knew if kept looking around long enough the right estate pipe would find me. I had never heard of Jacono before so when I saw the pipe for sale I did some quick research and was pretty impressed with what I found. I love the grain on this one and especially the way it goes with the shape so well.
mp31- yes it smokes as good as it looks. Testing out the first bowl now.
I got the pipe through smokingpipes.com and It came very clean and ready to smoke. Just a very faint ghost from previous owner.

 

[papipeguy]

I've never heard of them but that is one sweet looking pipe. Congrats and enjoy.

 

[bentmike]

One man Tonino Jacono. Performs each step of the pipe making process himself. He started in 1981 I believe and makes 300-400 pipes a year.
Here is a cool page How the Tonino Jacono Pipes are made

 

[cigrmaster]

Mike, you picked a beauty for your first estate piece. That should be a flake smoking machine with those thick walls and conical shaped bowl. Beautiful straight grain, nice thick walls and from what I have heard a quality mfg. Congrats.

 

[tbradsim1]

Beautiful pipe Mike, I"m glad for you. The old cajun

 

[puffy]

I met him several years ago at a pipe show here in Carolina.He didn't speak a lot of english at the time so I couldn't talk to him a lot.I did get one of his pipes though.It smokes great.I'm sure yours will as well.

 

[philobeddoe]

That pipe is beautiful, I don't have a Jacono yet but he's on my short list.

 

[shaintiques]

Nice grain

 

[captainprophesy]

Holy Crap! Thats a very nice pipe!... loving the thick walls and the birds eye on the shank.

 

[bentmike]

Thanks guys, I've only smoked the pipe one time so far and it does smoke cool. Barely got warm in my hand. Next up will be some flakes. Yeah it's a beauty I'm pretty impressed with it. Kinda of a strange shape though A Dublin-Lovat hybrid. The uniqueness Is what I like about the pipe I guess.