Bondarev Horn | Handmade Smoking Pipe

Description

New handmade smoking pipe made my Russian/Latvian pipe maker Alexandr Bondarev. The item is listed by craftsman himself.
Chamber:
19.5x39 mm
0.77x1.54″
Length:
180 mm
7.09″
Weight:
82 g
2.89 oz
Materials:
briar, acrylic, olive wood
Filter:
no
The bowl is made of perfect briar from the most known briar supplier Romeo Mimmo, Italy. I love his briar, because it's always tasty and always well cooked. I tried other suppliers with lower prices, but after all experiments I returned to Mimmo, because his wood is really the best.
The mouthpiece is made of top-quality German acrylic, which keeps color and shine much longer than other.
As always, the engineering is perfect. I'm sure a pipe isn't just "a bowl with a hole", I pay great attention to engineering:
The air hole touches exactly the bottom of the tobacco chamber, never higher.
The tenon almost bumps up against the mortise. I margin fractions of a millimeter taking into account the material expansion because of heat during smoking and hot weather.
The mortise itself is drilled with a flat-bottom mill instead of a usual drill to avoid cavitations inside the pipe. That kind of mortises don't have to be cleaned regularly because there isn't any gurgling or hissing. The air hole is perfectly centered at the bottom of the mortise.
The air hole tapers smoothly without projections despite the fact that it was made sequentially by drills of different diameter. All projections are sanded carefully, and the air hole is perfectly smooth.
The mouthpiece bit is relatively thin (about 4 mm), but the walls are not thin, so one should try hard to bite it through.
The air hole slot is made in the shape of a deep cone to let smoke expand and hinder from burning the tongue.
About me
My name is Alexandr (Sasha) Bondarev, I live in Riga, Latvia - a small but beautiful European country at the Baltic sea. I moved here from St.Petersburg, Russia in 2017.
I started making pipes in 2011, and now it's my only job. I make about 5 to 8 pipes per month, spending 2 to 3 working days on each one.
I've made over 300 pipes in my career. Most of them have been sold to American and Russian
pipe smokers, some have gone to Finland,
Sweden, Norway, Belgium, Great Britain and other European countries.
Most of people who had bought my pipe, returned and bought again and again.
If you don't have my pipes yet, you may google "Bondarev pipes" to get more about me and my work.