Please show off your large bent billiards.

[tarheel7734]

I have one on hand and four inbound. One is going to a friend as a gift. What I have is one Dunhill shell 5108, and will have three Ferndown 3*. I need to find one I can smoke aros out of some day that's not too expensive but a group 5 in size

 

[Sasquatch]

I'll get a pic later, but just about all I have is large bent billiards!

 

[Brewdude]

Good stuff 'heel, I like those shapes as well.

I have several in that style but no convenient way to post pics. Bummer!



Cheers,

RR

 

[Sasquatch]

From top left, going down columns....

Don Carlos, Brigham, Castello (kkkk so we have big pipes in pic!)

Il Ceppo, Ser Jacopo, Kaywoodie

Peterson 140th, Pete "Professor", Radice

 

[AJ]

Bent billiards are kind of scarce in my collection but I do have 4.

AJ

Dunhill Cumberland:

Lord # 159:

Savinelli Trevi #607KS:

Stanwell Handmade # 85:

 

[CharlG]

Geez Todd, that one in the middle must be huge! What size is the chamber?

 

[Zeno Marx]

I've always considered the 120 to be one of the all-time classic shapes. I wish more makers included it in their arsenal.

 

[Sasquatch]

Geez Todd, that one in the middle must be huge! What size is the chamber?

It is huge. It's an inch across and near 3 deep. You could load a whole tin of flake in there I guess.

 

[Sasquatch]

I've always considered the 120 to be one of the all-time classic shapes.  I wish more makers included it in their arsenal.

The 120 is very, very difficult to make for a few reasons. One is that it has an elongated and somewhat curved shank when done "well", like a mini-LC, and that takes quite a rare piece of briar. Two is that it's just a very hard shape to get right, it's a very big pipe, but a very lean one.

I did a 120ish pipe not too long ago....

 

[Zeno Marx]

Makes sense. Thanks for the lowdown.

 

[Puff Daddy]

They aren't terribly large, but as large as I have in the billiard shape.

Peterson XL90

Sultan meer

 

[Ocelot55]

These are my bent billiards over about a group 5 in size (please forgive the crappy phone pic).



The three on the left top to bottom:
-Old French LC style with horn stem (I sandblasted and added the silver band to this one)
-Jones reject, an attempt to copy a Dunhill LC
-LC style French pipe

Right side are all Peterson B28s:
-Peterson St. Patty's Day 2012
-Peterson 2004 POY
-Peterson 2008 POY