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Name: Talbert Horn

Grade/Finish:  Grade 3 Smooth

Price:  535 €
                Est. $674 USD
                    639 € TTC including VAT for EU buyers

Notes:  Going Danish a bit?  It's funny, people debate a lot about the aesthetics of individual pipemakers, especially whether various makers have readily identifiable personal styles.  While this may look Danish at a glance, I personally think it is very much "me", in the sense that it differs from many of the high-end Danish pieces in a couple of ways - It's larger, for one, and it is a prime example of the sort of "long tail" look I prefer. I've always gravitated towards very long, very flowing shapes, to the point that I personally can usually identify my own pipes by their "long and slinky" style layout (Whether anyone ELSE thinks this, I will leave up for debate!).  These are the proportions one gets when one applies the Golden Ratio of design to the lengths of bowl heel to shank end and stem length, and while a lot of people might find this too long, to me it's quite beautiful.  

  This pipe is also distinctive in another way - It's the star of our new Talbert mugs and steins in our new Talbert Pipes gift shop.  I'm not sure if any of those will sell since the Cafe Press photo-wrapping effect for their catalog makes the actual image graphic look rather horrid (pixelated and crooked, which the real image is not), but it's possible that this particular pipe might well grace a coffee table or two around the world.  Look for pics of it to turn up in future Talbert Pipes calendars, shirts, and more!

Positives:   I was tempted to dub this pipe the "Goldring", given that it reminds me very much of just the sort of pipe one particular collector tends to snap up.  It's just an all-around beautiful pipe, with positively exquisite grain.  It's large, light, holds in the hand comfortably, and has the sort of handcut, extra-thin bit (from German ebonite) that should please the most demanding of collectors.  It also passes a cleaner easily using my tenon angled airhole technique, which aligns the mortise airhole perfectly for smooth flow.  Despite the light weight, the walls are thick and it is IMO pretty much an ideal smoking machine.  The staining is my new coloring technique, previously seen on a large number of Ligne Bretagnes and Goblins but here applied to a Talbert Briar smooth for the first time.  It also benefits from a richer, glossier final polish than past smooth Talberts.

Negatives: I can't afford it or it would be mine.  It also has a few VERY tiny black dots on it that kept it from being a 630 € grade 4.

 
Dimensions:

Bowl Type: 2.2 cm conical

Airhole Size: 5/32"

Total Weight incl Stem: 54.2 grams

Bowl Height: 6 cm(Bottom to lowest bowl edge)

Tobacco Chamber Depth: 5 cm

Length from Bowl Base to end of Bit: 15 cm

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