Back in my younger days we used to craft pipes outta all kinds of wacky stuff, and yours reminded me of one we made from the brass fittings in my pop's plumbing supplies. That was sweet but not as elegant as yours.
I also tried to craft one in art class, cleverly disguised as a skullshaped doodad, but it mysteriously disappeared so I asked the teacher what happened to it. She raised one eyebrow at me and I said, "What?" And she said, "You know." Then she said she hadn't seen anything with my name on it but that a poorly concealed contraband pipe had been accidentally broken during firing and did I want to claim it as mine? I said "Oh never mind" and walked away.
Took me five years to realize how cool that teacher was...