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Information will appear when the mouse slides over the first and second pictures, but mouse-clicks on the images will not do anything.  White SPC numbers indicate Snail Grade pipes. Each square represents one inch.  The photos are not in scale from one pipe to another.

November - December 2003 (beginning)

139

Tokutomi "Heel-Sitter Blowfish," Snail Grade, 2003. I first heard this name in August 2004 from Per Billhäll, by which time Tokutomi-san had made three pipes in this shape. I'm not sure when the name was first developed.

SPC 139

SPC 139

140

Freehand (with rotated blowfish bowl), Snail Grade, 2003. This is the first version of a blowfish-variation in which Tokutomi-san both rotates and enlarges the bowl surfaces. See, for example, SPC 247 and 248.

SPC 140

The blue inlays are indigo-stained ivory

The blue inlays are indigo-stained ivory

141

Partially sandblasted blowfish, 2003

 SPC 141

SPC 141

143

Ring-grain sandblast Dublin, with bamboo and palm wood inlay and ring, 2003

SPC 143

144

Freehand Dublin with elliptical ferrule ("minimalist" version), 2003. (See SPC 196 and 273 for more fully developed versions of this shape. )

SPC 144

146

Tokutomi "Image of a Leaf," (simplified design), 2003. (See also SPC 068)

SPC 146

148

Freehand apple with long bamboo, 2003

SPC 148

150

Asymmetric pick-axe (or elephant's foot) variation with bamboo and palm wood ring and inlay, 2003

SPC 150

152

Blowfish, with ivory inlay of Tokutomi-san's signature, 2003. I believe that this is the second pipe to have such an inlay.

 SPC 152

SPC 152

155

Freehand Dublin with long bamboo shank and palm wood ring and inlay, 2003

SPC 155

SPC 155

Freehand Dublin with long bamboo shank and palm wood ring and inlay, 2003

SPC 155

158
Freehand sitter, 2003

SPC 158 

SPC 158

159

Volcano with long shank, 2003

SPC 159

SPC 159 

160
Freehand bent Dublin, inspired by Holbek (see also SPC 125), 2003

SPC 160

161

Small volcano with long bamboo, palm wood ring and inlay, 2003
SPC 161

162
Blowfish with (Lars Ivarson inspired?) long shank, 2003
SPC 162

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