DG Pipe
Hi everybody, my name is Gabriele Dal Fiume, my love for pipes moved its first steps 18 years ago, looking at my father and my uncle smoking in the dining room. At first I started collecting pipes, I was interested in all shapes, I liked both classic and “freehand”.
Then I felt the need of collecting documentation on this subject, I read a lot of books on the art of pipe-making and I visited museums and workshops in Italy and abroad.
The pleasure I felt smoking pipes, made me desire to make one by myself.
I make 50,60 pipes per year, their shape may range from classic to freehand, but always in my own peculiar style. I select personally the blocks of briar in Liguria (at Mimmo’s) and Tuscany and I let them air-dry in my lab. Periodically I test the blocks, verifying color and weight, but no block is used before 6 years are passed.
Most of my pipes have flame, straight grain and cross grain, only 15% are hand carved. Mouthpieces are made of high-grade PMMA. I use to apply rings of olive wood to mouthpieces. The entire processing is handmade with the exception of the bore of bowl and the stem which are drilled with a bore machine. The finishing is made with a smooth natural contrast and carnauba wax. Every year I take part in several exhibitions, and I am often involved in lectures about the Art of pipe-making.
I hope you all will enjoy my pipes!
- Example and details, courtesy Doug Valitchka
Contact information
Website: DGPipe Email: mailto:info@dgpipe.com Phone: +39 (0)51 6701166 Fax: +39 (0)51 830982