Chunky bowls with rough carving or gouges.

Tracy Mincer stopped making Custom-Bilt pipes in the early 1950s.

The trademark was successively bought by Leonard Rodgers (1953),

Consolidated Cigars (1968) and Wally Frank Co. (early 1970s).

The later began to produce again his version of the pipe in 1974 or 1975 at Weber

pipe factory (NJ). In 1987, the pipes were made out of the Butz-Choquin factory (France)

and then Mexico until the late 1990s. Currently (2010),

the Custombilt name is owned by Tobacalera of Spain which is part of Altadis.

It is generally admitted (but not proved) pipes stamped "Custom - Bilt" (with the hyphen)

are from the Mincer era. The name might have changed from

Custom-Bilt to Custombilt (without the hyphen) in 1946.