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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.

July 2004 (concluded)

278

Sandblast volcano with flexible "rectangular" shank, 2004.  After recent experiments with more-or-less straight shanks (as in SPC 269), Tokutomi-san here playfully reintroduces his characteristic curves and asymmetries.  Is he winking at those of us who gasped when we first saw his new straight shank designs?

SPC 278

SPC 278

279
Sandblast bent Dublin with new two-tone stain and asymmetric shank, 2004
SPC 279


Pipes from L.S. Ando, Tokyo

LSA 01

Traditional Disk Pipe/Blowfish (after Sixten Ivarsson)  2003

LSA 01

LSA 02

Variation on Anne Julie's "Lady's Leg" (a popular shape in Japan, apparently), 2003

LSA 02

LSA 03

Disk-pipe with mastodon ivory ferrule.  (Carved shortly after the Snail Grade, horn-ferrule disk pipe, SPC 243.)

LSA 03

LSA 04

Freehand (with rotated blowfish bowl), 2004.  A briliantly simplified variation of a  design first seen in SPC 248 (which itself grows out of SPC 247 and SPC 140.)

LSA 04

 

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