Love the cumberland stem

Yowza Harlock, where do you keep finding these beauties?

Who is the pipe maker?

Harlock999 wrote:

Kyle Weiss wrote: riff raff wrote: Yowza Harlock, where do you keep finding these beauties? What he said! Another class act! Thanks Riffster, and uh, Kylester! I've actually had this one stashed for a while, and it was probably one of my first bulldogs. It's a nice small pipe, and smokes nicely as well. Thanks again, and hope you guys had a great Thanksgiving! Chris.

Here is the Cavicchi I picked up at the Las Vegas pipe show. I saw a lot of great pipes there, but most were out of my price range. However, I knew there was no way I could walk out of the show without regretting leaving this one behind, as it's exactly what I was looking for from this carver: a smooth bent bulldog, with a saddle stem.

There's no doubt about it; that pipe is going to be as good of a smoker as it is beautiful. Another quite worthy doggie in an outstanding collection!

Ah, love that new Cavicchi. A smooth Cavicchi dog like that is exactly what I'm looking for as well, I can see why you didn't pass it up. They are still reasonably priced. I've never owned a Cavicchi, are you pleased how it smokes?

This thread is great! I'm a big fan of bulldogs and rhodesians and apparently I'm not the only one!

Harlock, it looks like you've got some beauties that have yet to be baptized. Y'know what they say, it ain't a pipe 'till it's been smoked!

Here are two of my favorites in my collection. They're both a touch dirty, but I like to say they're loved.

Radice FFF Clear Rhodesian:






Bjarne C Grade Freehand Rhodesian:

Also thought I'd toss in a tid bit that I saw mentioned earlier.

My understanding is that Bjarne's signature series (high grades) were all made by Ph. Vigen shortly after 1991. I haven't found anything to say that for certain, but I've found no one else listed as a maker of the Bjarne signature series.

Ph. Vigen info:

http://pipedia.org/index.php?title=Ph._Vigen
http://www.finepipes.com/articles/danish-pipes.html <-- All the way at the bottom

Both of these sites offer essentially the same info... almost verbatim. The latter is the only one that mentions that Vigen worked for Bjarne. Also, it is clear that the latter hasn't been updated since before 2008.