Emerald Rusticated

Two new releases from K&P to celebrate this week: the reappearance of the Emerald Rusticated P-Lip and a small release of the first-ever Silver Cap Deluxe Systems. 68 The Emerald Rusticated P-Lip is an exciting departure from the usual K&P lines of the past few years—a new Classic Range issue with a P-Lip mouthpiece that’s also vulcanite. 05, 150, 221 (Laudisi) When I first looked at the samples I had one of those Deja vu moments, transporting me back to the late 1980s when the Emerald line first appeared. The reissue has taken the great elements of the original and brought them back for us: a masculine brownish black-over-burgundy rustication, vulcanite P-Lip, hot foil gold P (haven’t seen a hot foil P on any new Pete in a while) and the brass and emerald acrylic sandwich band. Even the Peterson’s over Emerald bowl stamp is the same! 106 (the long round stummel makes it almost a natural for a liverpool or lovat) The rustication is the same we’ve seen recently but brought down a few “sizes,” helping to maintain the integrity of the shapes without sacrificing the tactility of the surfaces. (Laudisi) The gold hot foil P is great to see after so long an absence. It unites the design aesthetic, bringing together black stem and brass sandwich band and for me signals a certain pride: this is a PETERSON pipe, that stems without it lack. No tearaway was visible in the bowl airway samples. Look at the chamfering of the mortise (which is like this on all the samples): I know this has been around for a while as I remember it on the SH Christmas 2021 pipes, but does anyone know how far back it goes? And what the purpose is? Each of the samples I looked at is chamfered this way. Nice. Apart from not being sanded, take a look at the "reverse" chamfer on the tenon. Now I have seen this type of work on K&P tenons for decades. In fact, some of my finest F/T Petes have this type of tenon. I am also really excited about the P-Lips on these pipes. If anyone at K&P reads this, perhaps they comment and let us know if they’re new. Whether they’ve trickled down from the Deluxe Classics shapes or are newly issued, they’re fantastic, giving me that weird sense of time-warping back to the 1980s.  The stems on the 05 and X221 in the Laudisi photo near the top look like what we've been seeing for a long time now, lacking a flat clenching shelf and without defined upper and lower walls on the P-Lip. Not so with these samples. Above is the 03. Here's the others: 150 68 150 The stamps are clustered just as we have come to expect them. I include this photo because I want you to notice the Peterson's over Emerald is the same stamp used on the original issue (see photo further below). 03 150 (Note the wider jade center…