Bird's Eye all around

[marco]

Fantastic pipe, give a look
Marco

www.pipemoretti.com

[farrisdarren]

beautiful birdseye. I also love the wood inlay in the stem. Nice pipe.

[Ryan]

WOW from the looks of it, it is almost flawless too. Congrats a block like that only comes along every so often.

Ryan

[marco]

no flaw!
It's difficult, very difficult, to find a similar block of briar!
Marco

[Nick]

Awesome pipe. Is it sold already?

[Leus]

Wow!

Can you post pictures from the bottom?

[Zeeborn]

Grats, really a good looking pipe there. Thats money in the bank fore sure.

Wow!

Can you post pictures from the bottom?

I second that motion!

[marco]

here is the pic of the bottom of the pipe
This pipe got sold in 2 minutes !
Marco

[Zeeborn]

Thanks for the pic, that's really cool looking! How often do you come a cross a chunk of briar with that kind of grain? This is the first that I have seen that is that uniform with bird's eye all around.
-Nate

[kbadkar]

I'd guess it's a one in a million block... the Holy Grail of grain. I forgot which famous pipemaker once said that it was his life ambition to find a block and create a pipe with 360 deg. birdseye... I'd say that pipe was as close to it as one can get.

I remember once hiking with my college physics teacher and other students. Walking along a riverbed, I searched for the most perfectly spherical stone. I asked my teacher why it is I never found such a stone and what are the chances of finding one. He said that he doubted such a natural stone existed, because there were infinite possibilities for a stone to be shaped aspherical, while to be shaped perfectly spherical is a single pre-determined outcome requiring a staggering number of "random" events to align perfectly to meet the criteria.

A month or so later, another student returning from break brought me a perfectly round rough stone. I was blown away that he found such a stone in nature! Well, he finally admitted that it was from a very old stone grinding grain mill.

The point of all this is that nature prefers not to meet our requirements for "perfection".

[KurtHuhn]

Damn Kris - that's a great story!

And it makes me think I squandered a block of 360-degree grain I once shaped when I was first starting out. I didn't even know what I had. I just thought it was an interesting that it didn't have any side-grain at all. Somebody must have known what it was, however, since even then it sold immediately.

[bluesmk]

Beautiful Marco ! Indeed blocks like that are rare. Bravo!
Dan
Gabrieli Pipes

[RadDavis]

How about a pic of the top?

Rad

[marco]

here is the pic of the top.
Yes, is really rare to find a such block of briar 360° bird's eye. During in my life, I only made 4 of them.
I will show you 2 pipes full bird's eye later
Marco

[daniel]

nothing new to say, awesome and amazing.. phew.

[marco]

other full bird's eye pipes
Marco

[Frank]

Yoiks!! That horn must be worth a small fortune. Simply beautiful.

[Nick]

*drool*

[Charl]

Stunning!

[wdteipen]

Wow! The grain on that horn is amazing.