Brand: Butz-Choquin

 A 167-year-old brand, founded just eight years after Briar was first used in St. Claude, France, in 1850, and awarded the Gold Cup of French Taste, it is still in business today.

 Source

 Briar Quality

 Too bad
 Bad
 Good ✅
 Very good
 Perfect

 Smoke Path (Air Hole): Located at the bottom of the chamber, but slightly to the right. It has no effect on performance, perfect smoke path.

 Shank: It's quite clean. It hasn't undergone any extra work. This shows that it wasn't badly damaged during its use.

 Chamber Cleaning: The chamber has been professionally cleaned of road marks, the chamber wall is undamaged, no carbon applied, no armor, completely smooth.
 Faults: Various barely noticeable sand pits on shank and hopper walls. No teeth marks on mouthpiece. "Almost" perfect in performance.
 Score: 8/10

 Comment: If you're well-built and have large hands, the pipe will likely disappear in your hands. It's a very elegant, beautiful bulldog. The smoke path, shank, mortis, and tenon are perfectly balanced. Furthermore, the mouthpiece is V-cut. This is a pipe I really like. I don't think it will have any problems with watering at the right tempo. It's the ideal size, especially for short-term use. Once the cake layer forms, it will perform magnificently.
 Note: Any pipe that hasn't created a track (cake layer) will heat up unless you use a very, very slow, systematic pace. Heat-up is not a criterion for pipes without track.