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* <span style="color: red"><font size="1">Editorial note: The following autobiographic article was e-mailed to me in context with purchasing a Sven-Lar pipe by Mike Kabik. So if you hold the copyright to this article and feel this is an infringement of your rights, please contact one of the Pipedia sysops. Thanks, TseHa.</font></span>
* <span style="color: red"><font size="1">Editorial note: The following autobiographic article was e-mailed to me in context with purchasing a Sven-Lar pipe by Mike Kabik. So if you hold the copyright to this article and feel this is an infringement of your rights, please contact one of the Pipedia sysops. Thanks, TseHa.</font></span>


 
[[File:Michael Kabik - Making Pipes.png|200px|thumb|right|Michael Kabik crafting a pipe]]
"Before I begin spouting off my history and frustration, I want to thank Jeff Loid for his support and interest these past two years following a difficult time of health problems and personal chaos.
"Before I begin spouting off my history and frustration, I want to thank Jeff Loid for his support and interest these past two years following a difficult time of health problems and personal chaos.
In May of 2004, I suffered a heart attack, which certainly has a way of focusing the mind on what is important—family, friends, etc.—and, for myself, setting down my own history in the pipe-making industry as an important record of craft and art in this country.
In May of 2004, I suffered a heart attack, which certainly has a way of focusing the mind on what is important—family, friends, etc.—and, for myself, setting down my own history in the pipe-making industry as an important record of craft and art in this country.