Okay, Nick, you asked for it.
My initial impression was that the bowl shape could be greatly refined. The angle on the bottom of the bowl doesn't seem to serve any porpose, and is in stark conflict with the angle of the sides. The top of the bowl seems to dip toward the back, and that also creates a area where my eyes stumble. Also, the top of the bowl seems to take a dive inward near the top. It looks like a straight walled pipes, like a traditional poker, but then there's a slight rounding of the walls, but not enough to make it a billiard. It confuses my eye.
The shank length is okay, but there seems to be a departure from the angle of the bamboo to the angle of the shank on the top and bottom. This is evident in photo 2, but seems to be okay in the third photo (being off-center aside). This may simply be due to the photography, it's tough to tell.
One thing that I would like to see is a balance of the shank length, the trim piece, and the bamboo length at the shank. In a short pipe like this, you want the shank/trim/bamboo to be the same length as the previous length between knuckles. So if you have 3/4" of space between knuckles, the combined briar/trim/bamboo length between the last knuckle and the bowl should be about 3/4".
The above paragraph also goes for the stem. I'm not a fan of placing the stem right at the knuckle. It doesn't flow well in my opinion. What I'd rather see is an arrangement similar to the area near the bowl, where you balance the length of bamboo/trim/stem to flow with the knuckle spacing of the bamboo. On the stem material, cut an area to compliment the shape of the bamboo knuckle, then begin the taper of the mouthpiece. For pipes like this, I find that a saddle or very thin taper seems to looks best.
As for being off-center, what can I say.
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