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Heeschen is primarily self taught, and is currently making about 300 pipes a year. The most important markets are China, the US, and Japan, but he also has customers in Malaysia and China. While he did not travel much in his early years, developing and keeping up with his international reputations has taken him to all these places to attend shows and meet his customers. He combines business with pleasure. Sometimes to include a some fishing. His briar is from Calabria, and he maintains a large stock. He uses ebonite for stems, and Delrin for tenons. He makes his stems in batches, so he has them roughed in, often with inlay material of boxwood, mazur birch, or horn, so they are ready to match with a pipe for his final shapping and finishing processes. The pipes are smooth or sandblasted. He no longer rusticates pipes, and he no longer uses 9mm filters. The pipes are graded in three categories, ''A, B,'' and ''S,'' with ''S'' being the highest grade.

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