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Michael Lindner creates around 100 beautiful pipes per year, running the gamut from perfectly-executed billiards to artistic, flowing Blowfish. Starting with briar from the same source that Teddy Knudsen utilizes, Michael air-cures his wood a minimum of three years before working it. This ensures an effortless break-in, and in our personal experience Lindner Pipes tend to be very forgiving in their smoking characteristics. German ebonite and brindle rod stock is used to create the handcut stems, and all the pipes are completely handmade. The engineering is spot-on, and Michael says he will not make a pipe that won’t pass a pipecleaner easily. The bowl coatings are completely neutral in flavour and still allow the wood to absorb the moisture of the smoke. Whether you collect the classics, or you prefer the avant-garde, every Lindner will smoke effortlessly, day in, day out.
This particular Lindner shape is an interesting 2-knuckle bamboo billiard with a thin, comfortable taper stem. Stained in a rich reddish brown with tons of tan highlights, this piece has a finely detailed blast that doesn't have a ton of depth (out of necessity due to wall thickness) but has a lot of character. The thin, comfortable handcut mouthpiece is from German ebonite rodstock. This is reminiscent of many of the pipes that Sixten made; Sixten never wasted anything and would often make smaller pieces like this one, often with bamboo. This piece is graded "E2", which is the entry-level grade for sandblasted pipes, at the middle pricepoint for the E grade.
Markings read: michael lindner made by hand (in a circle), usa, E, 2 (in a circle), 2012. Measurements: 5 1/4" long, bowl is 1 1/4" wide and just over 1 5/8" tall. The chamber is .69" across and is 1.42" deep. The weight is a paltry 26 grams. About a Dunhill group 3 in capacity.
Condition:
10 out of 10. Unsmoked and perfect; complete with guarantee card and leather pouch.
SORRY, THIS PIPE DOES NOT QUALIFY FOR OUR 30 DAY "TRY IT OUT" GUARANTEE FOR SELECT UNSMOKED BRANDS, but CAN be returned, unused, within seven days. For more information, please see our "Return Policy" page.
