Yves' Sea Star Pipe -

[kashmir]

Smoking GLP's Charing Cross in a pipe made by a friend of mine from Switzerland. His name is Yves on sells on FaceBook under Ygrek Pipes.

 

[voorhees]

Beautiful.

 

[kashmir]

Yves is a new pipe carver out of Switzerland. I bought his first Sea Star, the black one shown above. He's made four others shown here. Again, its Ygrek Pipes on FaceBook. I love his work.

 

[cortezattic]

These are truly stunning pipes! :clap: Thanks for posting.

Just when I think the collective imagination of active pipe makers is exhausted, along comes a new take that blows me away.

These are particularly interesting because of the fusion of the classical shape (bulldog) and more modern inventions.

Are we looking at reverse calabashes in this mix?

 

[kashmir]

Yes, I agree Cortez. Well said.

 

[rockymtnsmoker]

Those are wild. Almost looks like an alien may have hatched out of some of them. The first one looks like it's morta Kashmir, is it?

 

[kashmir]

All briar - no morta.

 

[mso489]

Some amazing carving and finish on these pipes. Redefining and/or reinventing shapes.

 

[kashmir]

It's kinda neat to see a young and upcoming pipe artisan gaining some recognition for his craft. I bought his first Sea Star on FaceBook. Then I posted some photos, and soon he was getting a bunch of commissions from other pipers on FB. All the pipes you see above were carved over the past two months.

 

[petes03]

Very cool pipes!

 

[chispa]

I like that last one. Don't see stem rustication every day. Who else does stem rustication?? It looks good.

 

[reap]

Wow, very cool.

 

[ejames]

Those are cool!! I especially like the last one! Looks like very tedious,exacting and time consuming work!

 

[pruss]

That's weird... because when I do the exact same search I get sent here: https://www.facebook.com/ygrek.pipes?fref=ts
-- Pat

 

[kashmir]

Try the links on my FaceBook timeline under Eric Boehm.