MarTelo Pipes
Gustavo Cunha, maker of Martelo pipes, is a nature and wood lover since he was a child. Born in Diamantina-1987, an old colonial village in the Minas Gerais State of Brazil, he had access to traditional wood turners that guided him to study & graduate in design. After he worked in a Brazilian modernist furniture design office. There he had the chance to make some sketches and make briars for his friends, starting with freehands derived from classic shapes.
After visiting Eltang (Denmark) in October 2013 he began to consider pipe making as a profession and only one month after that he bought all the equipment for his own workshop and became a full-time pipemaker. Recently he spent some time with Chris Asteriou and Konstantinos Anastasopoulos (Greece) honing his craft, and readily admits he was influenced greatly by the young Greek's work.
Gustavo Cunha uses only super dry Greek (Makis Minetos) and Italian (Mimmo Romeo) briar blocks
MarTelo "Swan" # 1059
Gustavo Cunha's version of the classic - Dunhill pre WWII 'Swan". It was original introduced by Dunhill in the 1920's (stamped LC or 120LC). ...
View full detailsMartelo Billiard # 1060 *New*
A superb Billiard shows why Gustavo is known as a great blaster - his knack to bring out the best the wood has to give. This pipe's ring grain is o...
View full detailsMartelo Long Prince # 1061 *New*
Gustavo's tribute to the long gone Comoy's Blue Riband pipes. A Prince, back when, it was named that because the Duke of Windsor favored them in 19...
View full detailsMartelo Bent Bulldog # 1062 *New*
Gustavo's deep gnarly grain sandblast Rhodesian with an ivorite Horn shank adornment. His synthesis of a calabash style bent and a diamond shank ma...
View full detailsMartelo Jatobá # 1063 *New*
Gustavo's unique Jatobá. I do not recall when Gustavo introduced this unique shape. It was after 2017. Any pipe maker that can expand the pipe vo...
View full detailsMartelo Sandblast Canadian # 1055
This is very much an homage to the classic Canadian with a long shank length at 7" (180 mm) that the shape almost demands with full sized bowl. Gus...
View full detailsMartelo Stack Billiard # 1057
An absolutely superb Bing in Gustavo's deep ring grain sandblast with a Bone Grey Vulcanite stem. This pipe has an elegance and delicacy with the c...
View full detailsMartelo Sandblast bent Billiard # 1058
Gustavo' Oom Paul is a seriously gnarly sandblast with great character. The pipe while not large has presence and speaks volumes of how a meticulou...
View full detailsMartelo # 1052
A superb Rhodesian in Gustavo's deep ring grain sandblast with Horn ring adornment. This piece is really a cross squat bent Bulldog - Rhodesian whi...
View full detailsMartelo # 1053
An absolutely superb Bing in Gustavo's deep ring grain sandblast with a Bone Grey Vulcanite stem. This pipe has an elegance and delicacy with the c...
View full detailsMartelo Smooth Lovat # 1056
A wonderfully grained perfectly proportioned Lovat. He knows what a shape should be. Often a Lovat has parallel sides that doesn't differentiate it...
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