The Long Shanks: Difference between revisions

1.  Canadian.  A Canadian features a Billiard-shaped bowl with an oval shank that is 1 ½ times as long as the bowl height or more.  The stem is tapered and very short.

2.  Lumberman.  Take a Canadian and put a short saddle stem on it's oval shank and you have a Lumberman.  As mentioned above, some call it a Canadian or even a Saddle Canadian.

3.  Liverpool.  If you have a Lovat (long, round shank) with a tapered stem, you have a Liverpool, which can be thought of as a long-shanked Billiard.  I’ve found several pipes like this that are called Canadians, but lack the oval shank.

4.  Lovat.  A Lovat is a Billiard with a longer than usual round shank.  It always features a saddle stem.  One thing I should point out, though, is that the shank of a Lovat is usually about 1 ½ times the height of the bowl, and rarely longer.  The stem is longer than that of the other long shanks, but shorter  than a standard billiard.  You can think of a Lovat as a long-shanked saddle Billiard.  On the other hand, I have a Don Carlos pipe that has a round shank that is roughly twice as long as the bowl height and has a very short saddle stem.  It has all of the features of a Lovat, but a Lovat, as currently recognized, should have a shorter shank and longer stem than this one does.  Just another example of the ambiguity of pipe shape names.