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Name: Suscinio 2.0

Notes:  As people often fuss at me for, a lot of the time this catalog is sold out.  However, this particular pipe was posted last summer and, unusually, didn't sell during the latter half of last year, despite being one seriously amazing piece of straight grain briar from an Italian block that has been drying for nearly forty years.  I puzzled over this, and chatting with various collectors revealed that everyone really hated the original stem design.  Personally, I thought it was neat and offbeat, and that the heft was needed to balance the massive bowl thickness.  You can compare the new and old here, and see what you think.  I was so busy through the latter half of 2007 that I just didn't have two minutes to even think about it, or put effort towards tweaking it, but I thought I'd give it a nip & tuck this week.  Stem replacement wasn't a simple option due to the hell of trying to match the contrast staining to a sanded shank, but a very nice fellow actually thought about this enough to send me a Photoshop mod of the existing stem, and that's virtually what I've recreated here.  It is, in truth, more generic than the original look, but I think it is also prettier - maybe the avante garde look just didn't mix well with the simple, classical bowl shape.  In any case, the pipe has had its stem reshaped and has been refinished to some extent - the stain tint has been changed to a more golden color and the contrast and shine depth have been improved.  Ergo, "Suscinio 2.0"!  I have also discounted the price a very small bit.  I'll be curious to see if it sells in its new & improved form & finish - I'll probably give it a month or so, and if it doesn't, I'll just keep it for myself since I like it more and more as I look at it.  

Positives:   A nice thick-walled bowl that still manages to sneak in there right on around that magic 50+ gram mark despite its mass.  Grain to die for, and an impressive pedigree in terms of being very well aged briar (Like smoking a bit of the 1960's?)  The stem is handcut from solid acrylic rod in a swirled, translucent charcoal grey coloring, and will never fade (If it were up to me, I'd make all my pipes with acrylic stems - I don't clench, so softness isn't an issue, and I really hate having to keep ebonite stems polished)

Negatives:  Zippo.

 
Dimensions:

Bowl Type: 2.2 cm straight-walled, round-bottomed

Airhole Size: 5/32""

Total Weight incl Stem: 54.9 grams

Bowl Height: 3.5 cm(Bottom to lowest bowl edge)

Tobacco Chamber Depth: 3 cm

Length from Bowl Base to end of Bit: 14.5 cm

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