BS Pipes

BS Pipes is a briar pipe workshop in Istanbul signed with the initials of maker Birol Salman's own name. Because the meerschaum workshops of Eskişehir are the first thing that comes to mind when pipes are mentioned in Türkiye, workshops that work heath root from start to finish under one hand have remained few in the country; BS Pipes is one of the names counted within that narrow circle.

Salman's name is known not only for his pipes but also for the tobacco blends brought to market under the Bosphorus brand.

Maker and Scale

According to international pipe sources, Birol Salman was born in Istanbul in 1968, began making pipes in 2007, and started selling his output from 2010 onward. The same record lists his previous trade as electrician and his annual output at around a hundred pipes. None of these details rest on independent documentation and should not be treated as settled; the copyright line on the workshop's own website, meanwhile, spans 2008-2023, and the records do not fully agree on the starting year.

Salman's name also appears in the records of the local pipe community. He is listed among the competitors representing the Yeditepe Pipe Club in the Istanbul Pipe Association's results chart for the 2015 Istanbul Pipe Cup. In competitions of this kind, the measure is not speed but how long a pipe can be smoked without going out on a set amount of tobacco.