The Valkyrie

This pipe was sold to Jeff Folloder in November of 1998. If I were pressed, this would be one of my absolute personal favorites of all the pipes I've done. He is, thankfully, smoking it... though with Virginia tobaccos, egads. In retrospect, this was probably about the time period when I started getting more serious with my work. I was always serious about the quality, but I started thinking of things like competitiveness, labor times, marketing, etc.