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To be contuined!
Around 2001/2002 he had built up a very high reputation and there weren’t few who saw him on the way to the absolute top league. The quality specifications of an original FRANZ Pipe were extremely high. Only personally chosen plateaus of the best quality from Tuscany and Corsica were used. For reasons of quality every tobacco chamber was left in its natural state and smoothened with fine sand paper. Only some 60% of the pipes attained the imposed quality conditions due to cracks, inclusions and graining.
 
'''Grading'''
* AAA - Best Plateau quality with particularly fine Straight Grain, no spots, contrast natural colour staining, Carnaubawax polished. A maximum of 1% achieve a triple A.
* AA2 - Best Plateau quality with fine Straight Grain, no, or barely perceptible, spots, contrast natural colour staining, Carnaubawax polished. A maximum of 10% achieve an AA2.
* AA1 - Best Plateau quality with Straght Grain, barely perceptible spots, contrast staining, Carnaubawax polished. A maximum of 25% achieve an AA1.
* AAL - Selected Plateau quality, free of putty, 5-6 times dye application using flatting varnish technique, gloss polished surface. Maximal 10%.
* AAS - Selected Plateau quality with fine Straight Grain, sand blasted surface, stained and is matt. Maximal 15%.
 
Von Matt continued creating new shapes like "Willy" and the "Pelican" (... one more bird!) in 2002 or "Gina" and "George" in 2003. He participated in very many pipe shows, was a devoted protagonist of pipesmoking at many events of handicraft arts and opened his workshop for public workshop days. From 2000 on he held pipemaking courses at the Ballenberg center in the Canton of Bern. Thomas Habermacher was one of the attendents who later became a pipemaker. 
 
While other colleagues rather saw themselves as a lone wolf, von Matt seeked the collaboration. He wanted to show that pipemakers are not envious competitors, but rather could learn from and inspire one another.
 
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Image:Matt_18.jpg|FvM and his coupeur Domenico
Image:Matt_12.jpg|Hard at work to tame an odd bird
Image:Matt_17.jpg|Business as usual?
Image:Matt_cux2004.jpg|Cuxhaven Pipe Show 2004
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In February of 2005 von Matt closed his workshop in Teufenthal and moved to Zofingen (Argovia), where he built a new one with considerable expenditure. All the same he went back into his former profession as an architect working half-time as construction supervisor for the Community of Obergösgen in the adjacent Canton of Solothurn. In February of 2006 it was announced that he was appointed as superintendent of the planning department and building control office of the Community of Gränichen (Argovia) per April, 1st 2006.
 
Maybe, this decision was based on addiction, maybe, Franz von Matt, approaching his 50s, found it a little bit easier to live on a regular income than on the contingencies of pipemaking. During springtime of 2006 he sold out to a large extent but he kept back some essential machines and tools. He finished some more pipes - few indeed - till summer of 2007 and then finally quit, as his full-time occupation in civil service didn't allow to make pipes any more.
 
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Image:Matt_gina.jpg|Gina
Image:Matt_George.jpg|George
Image:Matt_billard.jpg|Billiard
Image:Matt_pot.jpg|Pot
Image:Matt_pelican3.jpg|Pelican
Image:Matt_pelican2.jpg|Pelican 2
Image:Matt_Silvia1.jpg|Silvia
Image:Matt_Silvia2.jpg|Silvia 2
Image:Matt_timeless2.jpg|Timeless
Image:Matt_timeless3.jpg|In olive wood
Image:Matt_willi2.jpg|Willi
Image:Matt_threekings.jpg|The Three Kings
Image:Matt_wing.jpg|Wing
Image:Matt_gina2.jpg|Name?
Image:Matt_02.jpg|Name?
Image:Matt_05.jpg|Name?
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'''Shapes (afaik):'''
* 118 Pot
* 303 Billiard
* 305 Swing
* 306 Three Kings
* 321 Wing
* 383 Hugo
* 401 Susan
* 403 Marian
* 405 Silvia
* 503 Campanile
* 505 George
* 507 Gina
* 603 Tulipan
* 821 Timeless
* 841 Odd Birds
* 903 Willi
* 912 Coq du Bruyere
* 928 Pelican
 
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