Castello Collection Great Line 3/4 Bend Calabash godet

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1/2 Bend Castello Greatline Collection tall oval Dublin. Twenty years ago this shape was a 49 and placing a 2 in front made it a fancy military push stem. This pipe also features an acrylic ring joining shank to freehand sub shank

This Collection Great Line ¾ bend Oval Dublin,  Euro Bar on the stem and is a 1K export, stamped as a piece made in 1998 stamped on under edge of shank with a 51.   I find this item very comfortable to hold in the mouth and hand and is in fact a very sweet smoke despite the bottom of bore into the chamber is approx 3/16 Inch above the crown. (analogy of crown in 2 lane road, the center high point where both lanes, the apex prevents flooding since water flows down to the side gravel.

A pipe bowl bore is inverted, this crown is a reverse of the road crown. Concave Floor of the bowl should meet perfectly with channel drilled from the shank. In steep curved pipes, this can be difficult due to the course the angle drill must travel.  If the craftsman’s “feel” is slightly off, one can allow the drill to go through the floor or opposite wall.  The drill can drift yielding a smoke hole above or below the floor/smoke hole of the chamber or left or right of center.  These misjudgments can yield somewhat “crappy” delivery!  Even though the bend of shank is steep in this Castello, which can lead to the afore- mentioned condition, this pipe is neither wet nor has it ever gurgled due to the height of drill in respect to bottom of bowl. (we’re talking a 3/32 to 5/32 gap above where it would be near perfect. Think of drill hole at the crown, conforming to where curvature of the concave bore meets the initial rise of the perpendicular chamber wall!

The bowl is very well grained in terms of  birds eye and cross grain but Castello still graded it only as a 1K.  I repeat, it functions so well especially in the flavor aspect- this is some piece of sweet wood!

This approach of a fancy turned push bit into an asymmetrically(wavy!) top surface godet for an inventory number shape once used in the 1970’s, changed 49 as calabash to the 249. I own a 293 but this is the first 249 I’ve seen as a Collection. ( i.e. The technique was applied to the f/b egg (93) to make the shape number 293. I own one with a year date stampof 41.  The “Castle” stamp of this  listing is 51.

This Castello Collection Greatline is stamped:

LH in script     CARLO SCOTTI   Over   CASTELLO   followed by a small K in a circle   Over   block letter COLLECTION   Over   GREAT LINE.   To the left is the Castello Castle in a rectangle with the number 51 split by a vertical line descending from a spire.   RH side   is an Oval   around   CARLO   Over  SCOTTI     Over   MADE IN CANTU      Over        ITALY.

There is one minor handling mark (barely visible!) on the under side of the shank.

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