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(New page: Peter Fischer was born in 1949 in Schleswig-Holstein, the utmost northern part of Germany. After he had finished a commercial apprenticeship he bought a one way ticket to Hamburg where he...) |
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* The Schaffhauser hunter’s pipe. Sketched in a frolicsome circle of huntsmen these pipes are richly ornamented with horn and antler with inserts of briar. (Fischer himself is strongly addicted to fly-fishing and hunting.) | * The Schaffhauser hunter’s pipe. Sketched in a frolicsome circle of huntsmen these pipes are richly ornamented with horn and antler with inserts of briar. (Fischer himself is strongly addicted to fly-fishing and hunting.) | ||
* The Briar freehands. | * The Briar freehands. | ||
If we don’t count the pipes Fischer made for fellow pipesters of German internet newsgroup [http://www.daft.de/pmwiki.php d.a.f.t.de] each piece from his hands is unique, as he never | If we don’t count the pipes Fischer made for fellow pipesters of German internet newsgroup [http://www.daft.de/pmwiki.php d.a.f.t.de] each piece from his hands is unique, as he never manufactures the exactly same shape twice. Fischer's briars represent a class of their own in their finish and precision. They typically follow the classical pipe forms creating new variations over and over again. | ||
Not each briar is suitable for a Fischer pipe, which has not only to be beautiful but also must have outstanding smoking characteristics. The origines are mainly from Greece and from the region of the Ligurian coast. From each lot supplied Peter Fischer first chooses one block making a pipe for himself to test the quality. Due to this practise already more than 300 pipes make up a very special collection. | |||
Fischer loves to decorate his pipes with unusual materials. Mother-of-pearl, jewel, amber, ivory and bone applications ornament not only the stem but sometimes also the bowls and mouthpieces. To develope some even more whacked out creations he went into co-operation with a juwelier. For sure not every pipesmoker will appreciate such funky pipes but indeed, Peter Fischer already manufactured many smoke devices with platinum and diamond ornaments demanding prices with 5 digits. His customers are mainly homed in Europe but he has warm admirers in America and in the Far East as well. | |||
Peter Fischer is a very warm hearted and nice to talk to character. Besides doing all kinds of repair and service work on pipes his workshop is a meeting place of passionate fly-fishers who buy their Fischer made flies and streamers there. | |||
Peter Fischer | |||
Stadthausgasse 5 | |||
CH - 8200 Schaffhausen | |||
Telephone: 0041 - 52 - 625 27 63 | |||
Articles containing some pictures (in German): [http://www.pfeife-tabak.de/Pfeifen/Fischer/fischer.html 1] [http://www.daft.de/old/artikel/a1/calabash3.html 2] | |||