what would you call this Nording shape?

[irishearl]

Am finding what some e-tailers call freehands and what I would seems to differ at times. 1 of my Nordings is this shape http://www.therightpipe.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=catalog.viewProduct&productId=2433&catId=612 though mine has a silver ferrule. So, would you call this a freehand? thanks.

 

[pagan]

Freehand, there are many variants but basically it's a freehand

 

[Chasing Embers]

If pressed, I would call it a freehand Dublin, but definitely freehand. Here's a similar design by Johs listed as a bent Dublin, but still is a freehand.
https://m.smokingpipes.com/pipes/new/johs/moreinfo.cfm?product_id=216056

 

[mso489]

chasing', I was going to point out the same comparison, since Mogen Johansen (Johs) is also Danish, and he labels many of his current crop of freehand type pipes as Dublins.

 

[Chasing Embers]

They follow the same characteristic of an inverted bell shaped front profile like a traditional Dublin. Now when grain is followed to create a pipe shape, some very wild and outlandish shapes will emerge like this Holm in my collection.

 

[mso489]

That one looks like a fantasy sea shell, one of a kind. I have a Johs freehand, what I think of as a tomahawk, where the bowl briar reaches down below the shank to a point. That one is a freehand, but in my opinion not a Dublin.

 

[Chasing Embers]

Most shapes have open interpretation, but some defy description.

 

[ophiuchus]

Freehand ... but I know what you mean. :wink:

 

[anthonyrosenthal74]

Duane, I'm freaking nuts over that Preben Holm. Beautiful shaping!