Makers and Artists

A Conversation with Brad Pohlmann

A Conversation with Brad Pohlmann

October 13, 2010 by Kathryn Mann

Brad Pohlmann has been making pipes for over thirty years, though for many of those years he pursued another career. During the past three years, he's returned to his original calling and again become a full time pipe maker. He kindly took some time to sit down with Bear Graves for an interview:

Video: In The Workshop 2

Video: In The Workshop 2

October 13, 2010 by Ted Swearingen

Putting together this video was incredibly satisfying. When we were shooting all this footage, now two Mondays past, Tokutomi took a moment to talk freely on his experience in the workshop with Adam and Jeff. ... Read More

Video: Interview with Alex Florov, Part 2

Video: Interview with Alex Florov, Part 2

October 10, 2010 by Sykes Wilford

Here's the second part of the video interview that we did with Alex Florov when he visited almost two weeks ago. In this entry, we talk about pipe making, his day job, and Sixten Ivarsson, and the centrality of his role in the creation modern high grade pipe making. ... Read More

Video: In The Workshop

Video: In The Workshop

October 8, 2010 by Ted Swearingen

As you likely know, on Monday, Jeff Gracik (of J. Alan Pipes) and Hiroyuki Tokutomi met with Adam Davidson at his workshop in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina again this year after the annual CORPS show in Richmond, Virginia, so that they might collaborate on a set of three pipes. ... Read More

Come Together

Come Together

October 7, 2010 by Ted Swearingen

I'd never had the opportunity to see a pipe made. I'm familiar enough with some of the tools that get used in such a process, like lathes and drill bits and jigsaws and what all, but the step-by-step process of manufacturing a pipe by hand had remained to me elusive. ... Read More

Video: Interview with Alex Florov

Video: Interview with Alex Florov

September 27, 2010 by Ted Swearingen

Today we were lucky enough to have pipe maker Alex Florov and his wife Vera visit with us over here at the Smokingpipes.com campus. After a thorough tour and a fine lunch, we got to sit down and pick the man's brain. ... Read More

Video: Peterson Pipes with Tom Palmer

Video: Peterson Pipes with Tom Palmer

August 19, 2010 by Sykes Wilford

Tom Palmer, Managing Director of Peterson of Dublin, took a few minutes at the IPCPR show in New Orleans last week to talk with Alyson about all of the new stuff Peterson is doing this year, including the Pipe of the Year, the Christmas Pipe, the Writer's collection, and an assortment of new tobaccos. ... Read More

Video: Stanwell Hans Christian Anderson VII

Video: Stanwell Hans Christian Anderson VII

August 17, 2010 by Sykes Wilford

The new Stanwell Hans Christian Andersen VII shape is a little special. For the first time, Stanwell is trying to tie it all together a little bit, presenting the first 3,000 pipes in a presentation box, complete with a Hans Christian Andersen fairytale. ... Read More

Video: Tom Eltang's Laser Engraver

Video: Tom Eltang's Laser Engraver

July 25, 2010 by Sykes Wilford

A year ago, when I last visited Tom in his workshop, he was pondering getting a laser engraver, rather than continue to use his existing engraver, which is both finicky and quite limiting, since plastic templates are necessary for any engraving. ... Read More

Video: Lasse Skovgaard Shapes a Horn

Video: Lasse Skovgaard Shapes a Horn

July 25, 2010 by Sykes Wilford

Kicking it off is a long video of Lasse Skovgaard at work. For various camera reasons, the video quality isn't as good as the others we've been doing lately, but I decided to run with it anyway: watching the lathe work is particularly interesting here. ... Read More

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