As the Italian marque's flagship handmade line, Savinelli Autographs are carefully crafted from Extra Extra grade plateau briar, and all accents and mouthpieces for this series are of the highest pedigree and craftsmanship. Much like traditional Danish Freehands, all Autographs are hand-crafted from start to finish using the "shape first, drill second" method. As a result, no two Autographs are exactly the same, though they all exhibit beautiful grain and gorgeous linework. Following a rigorous quality control process, many plateau blocks that might have become a Savinelli pipe are started and later discarded due to pits or other natural defects appearing in the briar; the result being that every finished Autograph pipe is of superlative quality.