What the heck is "rock briar?"

[Kyle Weiss]

I've been perusing terminology, listings, descriptions and history, and the term "rock briar," has come up a few times.

Shows markings stamped specifically on certain pipes, others show a strange trait as if "worm holes" or other markings were etched into the finished work.

So, what is it? Are they natural "mistakes" like sand pits but were simply worked around as a feature? Is it a certain growing condition of the burl underground?

 

[Sasquatch]

Never heard the term outside of Castello's "Sea Rock" designation.

 

[Kyle Weiss]

http://www.ebay.com/itm/ESTATE-SAVINELLI-SHERWOOD-ROCK-BRIAR-114-KS-ITALIAN-PIPE-VERY-NICELY-USED-/230695765834?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item35b68a074a

http://www.ebay.com/itm/SAVINELLI-SHERWOOD-ROCK-BRIAR-PIPE-904-/360407646228?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item53e9f84014

http://www.smokingpipes.com/pipes/estate/italy/moreinfo.cfm?Product_ID=41254


I was looking up Savinelli pipes, and it seems it is exclusive to the "Sherwood" line. Apparently a style? That's what I was trying to figure out...

 

[Sasquatch]

I'm gonna guess that's just a Savinelli thing.

 

[plumbernater]

On their capri line they call it capri root briar

 

[Kyle Weiss]

Likely some marketing term/gimmick of some kind. *shrug* Just wondered. Not too into the style, however, it piqued my interest.

 

[dshpipes]

My guess would be that it's those carved lines that earn those pipes a name like "rock briar." Oddly enough, it isn't even listed on the Savinelli website: http://savinelliusa.com/?page_id=383

 

[plumbernater]

Im kinda a savinelli fan and its a savinelli thing Like I posted before the capri root briar. sherwood rock briar. others of savinelli dont have any thing about briar

 

[MisterE]

One of the pages has a wierd latin thing....

http://savinelliusa.com/?specialseries=sitting-antique

Do you suppose the site was hacked?

Translation from Google translate doesn´t have much to do with pipes:

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[Kyle Weiss]

Weird. Usually hacked stuff appears over the main page.

Maybe it's a work in progress and they were just testing text on that particular page.

 

[Schmitzbitz]

It's nonsensical Latin, used as a "lorem ipsum" (placeholder or filler text) used in publishing to demonstrate the graphic layout of a page (such as font, layout and typography). This is actually quite common, although it shouldn't actually be published (outside of a Publishing textbook perhaps).

My guess is the page designer either isn't yet finished, or copied/pasted the wrong block of text to the live site, and this isn't actually a hack.

 

[Boulder]

http://www.ebay.com/itm/ESTATE-SAVINELLI-SHERWOOD-ROCK-BRIAR-114-KS-ITALIAN-PIPE-VERY-NICELY-USED-/230695765834?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item35b68a074a

http://www.ebay.com/itm/SAVINELLI-SHERWOOD-ROCK-BRIAR-PIPE-904-/360407646228?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item53e9f84014

http://www.smokingpipes.com/pipes/estate/italy/moreinfo.cfm?Product_ID=41254


I was looking up Savinelli pipes, and it seems it is exclusive to the "Sherwood" line. Apparently a style? That's what I was trying to figure out...

I have a Savinelli Tobacco Grain Freehand which looks kinda the same to me;

http://pipesandpleasures.com/pipes/savinelli-tobacco-grain-bent-panel-freehand.html