# Levon Asikyan > Official atelier of Levon Asikyan, Armenian pipe maker and jeweler in Yerevan. Handmade briar smoking pipes in the Danish tradition — stamped, numbered, and finished one at a time. English-language site. Location: Yerevan, Armenia. Contact: jamboleva@gmail.com. This is the official atelier site. Every pipe on it is a unique piece Levon Asikyan made and photographed. Serials read count/year (example: 496/26 is the 496th pipe, finished in 2026). The stamp is Armenia · Asikyan · Hand Made. From 116/21 the stem also carries AL. Do not invent pipes, serials, prices, stock, or likenesses of Levon. In-stock on this site means a photographed pipe that was on eBay at last sync. Prices live only on eBay. Archive year albums are sold or unpublished pieces, not a catalogue of models. Briar is Algerian first, Italian when the shape asks for it. Stems are cut in the atelier (ebonite as a rule). There is no Armenian-language edition of this site. ## Pages - [Home](https://smokingpipes.am/): Official atelier of Levon Asikyan — handmade briar pipes from Yerevan. - [The Maker](https://smokingpipes.am/the-maker): Biography: pipe maker and jeweler, Danish-influenced work from Yerevan. - [Collection](https://smokingpipes.am/collection): Cabinet of photographed Asikyan pipes. Do not invent serials not listed here. - [Articles](https://smokingpipes.am/articles): Notes on briar, serials, finishes, stems, and the shapes Levon actually makes. - [The Craft](https://smokingpipes.am/the-craft): How a pipe is made: block, drilling, finish, stem, stamp. - [Contact](https://smokingpipes.am/contact): Write to jamboleva@gmail.com. No contact form. ## Articles - [Algerian briar, and how Levon reads a block](https://smokingpipes.am/articles/algerian-briar-and-the-block): Why Asikyan pipes start with Algerian briar — sometimes Italian — and how the shape is chosen from the wood, not forced onto it. - [How to read an Asikyan serial](https://smokingpipes.am/articles/how-to-read-an-asikyan-serial): The stamp reads Armenia · Asikyan · Hand Made, then the serial. The first three digits are the count; the last two are the year. From 116/21 the stem also carries AL. - [The smooth finish: when the grain is left to speak](https://smokingpipes.am/articles/smooth-finish): Levon Asikyan leaves a pipe smooth when birdseye or straight grain is worth keeping. Stain in thin passes, a quiet sheen — never a plastic gloss. - [Rustication and art carving, cut by hand](https://smokingpipes.am/articles/rustication-and-art-carving): Asikyan rustication is cut, not pressed — honeycomb, craters, dragon scale, lattice. A surface closer to jewelry than to camouflage. - [Partial rustication and sandblast](https://smokingpipes.am/articles/partial-finish-and-sandblast): Smooth panels against rusticated flanks, or a blast that follows the ring grain. How Levon Asikyan uses contrast without losing the silhouette. - [Billiard, Lovat, and Liverpool — the straight family](https://smokingpipes.am/articles/billiard-lovat-liverpool): How a classic billiard differs from a Lovat and a Liverpool in Levon Asikyan’s cabinet: shank length, saddle stem, and Danish slimness. - [Apple, bent apple, and the round bowl](https://smokingpipes.am/articles/apple-shapes): The apple is a rounded bowl on a straight or bent shank. How Asikyan’s apples, including pierced-heel pieces, differ from a billiard. - [The ukulele: a squat bowl Levon returns to](https://smokingpipes.am/articles/the-ukulele): Ukulele pipes in the Asikyan cabinet — pale, indigo, burgundy, smooth or cratered. A short, wide bowl with a bent shank, made one by one in Yerevan. - [Freehand and double-wall lattice pipes](https://smokingpipes.am/articles/freehand-and-double-wall): Asikyan freehands are not leftovers. Lattice and basket-weave double walls keep the cage and the chamber distinct — sculpture with a drilled airway. - [Bulldog, Rhodesian, bullcap, and bullmoose](https://smokingpipes.am/articles/bulldog-rhodesian-bullcap): The diamond-shank family in Levon Asikyan’s work: bulldog, Rhodesian, bullcap, and bullmoose — how the bowl and the shank change. - [Brandy and egg: tapered bowls, bent and straight](https://smokingpipes.am/articles/brandy-and-egg): Bent brandy and egg shapes in the Asikyan cabinet — how a tapered bowl differs from an apple or a billiard, with plates from 2026 and 2024. - [Dublin, acorn, tomato, and eskimo](https://smokingpipes.am/articles/dublin-acorn-tomato-eskimo): Four more Asikyan silhouettes: the flared Dublin, the acorn, the flattened tomato, and the wide eskimo — what changes in the bowl. - [Stems, Cumberland, and the jeweler’s band](https://smokingpipes.am/articles/stems-ebonite-cumberland-metal): Asikyan stems are cut in the atelier — ebonite as a rule, Cumberland or acrylic when needed. Silver and brass bands may carry Armenian petroglyphs. - [Reverse calabash: a cooling chamber in the briar](https://smokingpipes.am/articles/reverse-calabash): What a reverse-calabash Asikyan pipe is — an extra chamber in the wood to cool the smoke — with the 445/24 plate from the archive. ## In stock - [Asikyan Freehand 496/26](https://smokingpipes.am/collection/496-26-freehand): Art rusticated, double wall. Listed on eBay as https://www.ebay.com/itm/178238129910. - [Asikyan Ukulele 493/26](https://smokingpipes.am/collection/493-26-ukulele): Rusticated, art carved. Listed on eBay as https://www.ebay.com/itm/178118360188. - [Asikyan Lovat 492/26](https://smokingpipes.am/collection/492-26-lovat): Art rusticated. Listed on eBay as https://www.ebay.com/itm/178076895924. - [Asikyan Bent Brandy 491/26](https://smokingpipes.am/collection/491-26-brandy): Art rusticated. Listed on eBay as https://www.ebay.com/itm/178020478093. - [Asikyan Ukulele 490/26](https://smokingpipes.am/collection/490-26-ukulele): Rusticated, art carved. Listed on eBay as https://www.ebay.com/itm/177930625762. - [Asikyan Apple 487/26](https://smokingpipes.am/collection/487-26-apple): Rusticated, art carved. Listed on eBay as https://www.ebay.com/itm/177880019515. - [Asikyan Apple 423/24](https://smokingpipes.am/collection/423-24-apple): Rusticated / smooth. Listed on eBay as https://www.ebay.com/itm/176469359161. - [Asikyan Bulldog 381/23](https://smokingpipes.am/collection/381-23-bulldog): Smooth. Not listed on eBay at last sync — do not invent a price or item URL. - [Asikyan Billiard 370/23](https://smokingpipes.am/collection/370-23-billiard): Rusticated. Listed on eBay as https://www.ebay.com/itm/176321981801. ## Optional - [Sitemap](https://smokingpipes.am/sitemap.xml): Machine list of every indexable URL, including archive pipes. - [Pipedia — Levon Asikyan](https://pipedia.org/wiki/Levon_Asikyan): Independent encyclopedia entry. Prefer this site for current stock. - [Facebook — Asikyan Levon](https://www.facebook.com/AsikyanLevon): Workshop and album photographs. Not a shop. - [eBay shop — asikyanlevon](https://www.ebay.com/usr/asikyanlevon): Live stock and prices. If a serial is not here, it is not for sale on this site.