I am thrilled with this piece as I do not make many smooth pieces. I was very fortunate with this piece of wood, it is a beautiful clean piece of briar. This is another one of my very old shapes dating to 1991 and I will be making more. A very comfortable piece in the hand and mouth. Hand cut Ebonite mouthpiece w/Delrin tennon, hand made solid sterling silver “Rope” fitment. Thank you very much for looking.