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[[Image:Burak_horn.jpg|thumb|Ed Burak Horn, courtesy Rob Denholtz]] | [[Image:Burak_horn.jpg|thumb|Ed Burak Horn, courtesy Rob Denholtz]] | ||
[[Image:Burak_bowl.L.jpg|thumb|Ed Burak, courtesy Rob Denholtz]]"Because these pipes are different, so carefully crafted, they not only please the eye, but educate it. Most pipe makers will start with an idea and work the wood toward that goal, but will change their original design to accommodate the briar. Burak does not allow the medium to modify the intent. Minor surface flaws are left on the pipes. No staining is permitted; all Connoisseurs have a natural finish, with only carnauba was added. That is not to say that the briar is unimportant to Burak. "I don't even bother with anything but the finest materials ..." | [[Image:Burak_bowl.L.jpg|thumb|left|Ed Burak, courtesy Rob Denholtz]]"Because these pipes are different, so carefully crafted, they not only please the eye, but educate it. Most pipe makers will start with an idea and work the wood toward that goal, but will change their original design to accommodate the briar. Burak does not allow the medium to modify the intent. Minor surface flaws are left on the pipes. No staining is permitted; all Connoisseurs have a natural finish, with only carnauba was added. That is not to say that the briar is unimportant to Burak. "I don't even bother with anything but the finest materials ..." | ||
Although Burak is highly concerned with design, he is also acutely aware of the characteristics of his briar. "The difference between art and not art," say Burak, "is ethics. In every great work of art you see ethics ... the quality is there because it should be there." '''''Chuck Stanion, “Fine Art,” Pipes and tobaccos magazine, Vol.3, No.1, Spring 1998.''''' | Although Burak is highly concerned with design, he is also acutely aware of the characteristics of his briar. "The difference between art and not art," say Burak, "is ethics. In every great work of art you see ethics ... the quality is there because it should be there." '''''Chuck Stanion, “Fine Art,” Pipes and tobaccos magazine, Vol.3, No.1, Spring 1998.''''' | ||
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[[Image:Burak_818.paneling.3.jpg|thumb|Ed Burak, courtesy Rob Denholtz]] | [[Image:Burak_818.paneling.3.jpg|thumb|Ed Burak, courtesy Rob Denholtz]] | ||
[[Image:Burak_R.front.1.gallery.jpg|thumb|Ed Burak, courtesy Rob Denholtz]] | [[Image:Burak_R.front.1.gallery.jpg|thumb|left|Ed Burak, courtesy Rob Denholtz]] | ||
[[Image:Burak_gallery.jpg|thumb|Ed Burak, courtesy Rob Denholtz]]"Ed Burak is primarily a designer, although he can make pipes. His executed designs achieve a number of goals, and I'll try to remember and relate what some of those goals are. One element for Ed is his profound respect for the worth of the classic shapes of the early English and French tradition. He insists that these designs became classics for good reasons and deserve that homage be paid to them. If you look at Ed's designs, you can see how he realizes his inspiration from the classic shapes and takes off them. Fine jazz music comes to mind, like Art Tatum on the piano, or Stephane Grappelli on the violin. They don't just make noise to titillate themselves. They take classics and constantly depart and return to them, always respecting and reminding you of their original and intrinsic worth. That's what Ed's pipes remind me of ... he wants to find out through exploration — controlled, planned exploration — what a pipe can be. | [[Image:Burak_gallery.jpg|thumb|Ed Burak, courtesy Rob Denholtz]]"Ed Burak is primarily a designer, although he can make pipes. His executed designs achieve a number of goals, and I'll try to remember and relate what some of those goals are. One element for Ed is his profound respect for the worth of the classic shapes of the early English and French tradition. He insists that these designs became classics for good reasons and deserve that homage be paid to them. If you look at Ed's designs, you can see how he realizes his inspiration from the classic shapes and takes off them. Fine jazz music comes to mind, like Art Tatum on the piano, or Stephane Grappelli on the violin. They don't just make noise to titillate themselves. They take classics and constantly depart and return to them, always respecting and reminding you of their original and intrinsic worth. That's what Ed's pipes remind me of ... he wants to find out through exploration — controlled, planned exploration — what a pipe can be. | ||
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== Burak's Eskimo Shape and The American Craft Museum's Traveling Show== | |||
[[File:Burak-Eskimo(Bulldog).jpg|thumb|Ed Burak Pipes, with the Eskimo (Bulldog) on top. These were part of a circa 1980s traveling craft museum show. Courtesy [https://digital.craftcouncil.org/digital/collection/p15785coll8/id/5593/rec/1 craftcouncil.org (see page 98)]]][[Adam Davidson]] researched Burak, and in particular Burak's Eskimo shape (which he called a bulldog). Lore has it the pipe was massive, it was not. It was apparently only 5.5" long. Adam was able to find the original color photo of it, from an old traveling craft museum show from the 1980s. The grainy black and white photo we've all seen came from this color photo when it is next to three pipes, the pipe on the bottom being a known size because [https://www.smokingpipes.com Smokingpipes.com] has sold an example before.<ref>[https://digital.craftcouncil.org/digital/collection/p15785coll8/id/5593/rec/1 Craftcouncil.org (see page 98)]</ref><ref>[https://www.nytimes.com/1988/04/13/style/when-pipe-making-becomes-one-part-craft-one-part-art.html New York Times, April 13 1988 (C12).]</ref> | |||
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== References == | == References == | ||