CATALOGUE BY DATE - Page 10

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.

May 2004, Chicago Pipe Show (concluded)

254

Asymmetric Volcano, 2004.  An important transitional shape, between earlier Tokutomi volcanoes and new Tokutomi "Disk" pipes.

SPC 254

 

257

 Blowfish with boxwood (faux-bamboo) stem, 2004.  Second such stem that Tokutomi-san has carved.  (See SPC 229)

SPC 257

259

Sandblast freehand Dublin with amber inlay and twisted shank, 2004

SPC 259

264

Asymmetric horn-Zulu with vivid orange stain, 2004.  Only the second time Tokutomi-san has used such a stain.  See (Holbek-inspired) SPC 125

SPC 264

The asymmetry of this pipe is extremely subtle.  The right side of the shank curves downwards and to the right, while right side of the bowl twists upwards and to the left.  In the photos immediately below, the stem may look asymmetrical to the shank;  but in fact, what's going on is that the right side of the mouthpiece is meeting the wood at a lower point than the left side because of the twist in the composition.  Along the horizontal plane, the mouthpiece and shank are aligned quite normally.  (See the bottom row of images.)


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