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SPC 2014 Pipe of the Year

When:
Wednesday, June 18, 2014 to Sunday, July 20, 2014
Where:
Lakewood, WA  
Additional Info:
Event Contact(s):
Ricky Willoughby
Category:
Club Pipe
Registration is required
Payment In Full In Advance Only
You must purchase your pipe by July 18, 2014 to be included in the custom order. We're ordering these little beauties from Jack and will only order what is paid for. SHIPPING IS NOT INCLUDED -- PIPES MUST BE PICKED UP AT CLUB MEETINGS NYPC PIPES WILL BE SENT TO LOU CARBONE
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2014 Jack Howell POY
 2014 SPC Pipe Of The Year: Jack Howell, Carver  

Introducing a master pipe carver and renaissance musician.   Can you imagine how particular, precise and meticulously crafted a clarinet reed has to be for a professional musician?  They are made of bamboo and needless to say, must be perfect.  Less than perfect and the clarinet tone is unacceptable. 

 

 Jack Howell makes those perfect clarinet reeds – over 10,000 so far.  He’s also a professional orchestral clarinetist.  He teaches music at Dusquene University in Pittsburgh.  Builds bamboo fly rods with skills that have been out of fashion for many years.  He even wrote a wonderful step by step book on how to build a fly rod yourself.  As a master pipe carver, knowing what you have just read, what quality of smoking pipes do you think Jack makes? 

 

POY Chairman Rick Willoughby has done it again.  We discovered Jack Howell’s pipes from our friend Neill Archer Roan.  Jack created Neill’s first Passion For Pipes POY a few years ago.  The results?  Spectacular.   Jack is amazing and amazingly busy.  Would he have time to do a POY for the Seattle Club?  Luckily for us he found the time.  Every so often a very special POY comes along that you should not miss out on – this is that POY. 

 

The Jack Howell Bent Acorn:  2014 SPC POY.  Rick said we haven’t done a bent pipe for awhile and this is a sensational way to start.  The photos, as they say, do not do this wonderful pipe justice.  It is balanced to a fare thee well.  The blast is exquisitely done.  The acorn shape is one of our all time favorites.  It is a Danish inspiration that translates perfectly.  The feel of this pipe in your hand is comfortable and everything you’d want in a pipe.  How Rick avoided smoking the prototype before the photos is beyond me!  I know we said this before but truly, the Jack Howell POY is a pipe you’d be well advised to purchase for your collection and pure smoking pleasure. 

 

More Jack Howell POY Photos here! 


Order deadline July 18, 2014. 
Pipes MUST be prepaid and will be delivered in early Autumn.   Want to order your new Howell SPC POY?  Just click the BUY NOW button on this page and Presto! 

 

The Jack Howell Bent Sandblast Acorn:

  • sandblast
  • brown stain
  • boxwood trim
  • black ebonite bit
  • Special SPC 2014 stamping to identify this POY! 

Dimensions are approximately:

  • Size:  about a Group 4
  • Length 4.97" long
  • Bowl height: 2.1"
  • Bowl Depth: 1.4”
  • Weight: 44 grams (prototype pipe weight)

The pipe in the photo is the prototype. Finished pipes will be as similar as possible but remember they are handmade and there will be slight but insignificant differences.

Price $350

Order deadline July 18, 2014

NOTE:   SHIPPING IS NOT INCLUDED AND IN MOST CASES WE WILL NOT SHIP.  ALL SPC MEMBER PIPES MUST BE PICKED UP AT CLUB MEETINGS.  A maximum of 4 NYPC PIPES WILL BE DELIVERED TO LOU CARBONE.  All NYPC'ers check with Lou first.  

 

 


 
IMPORTANT ORDERING INFORMATION:  Click the BUY NOW or Order button,