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'''Sam Learned passed away on October 5th, 2015''' | '''Sam Learned passed away on October 5th, 2015''' | ||
[[Image:65thsamlearned.jpg|thumb|300px|Bent Apple, courtesy, [http://www.smokershaven.com/index.asp?PageAction=VIEWPROD&ProdID=3748 Smokers Haven, 65th Anniversary set]]]'''Horn''':The Horn Pipes are designed with the Renaissance person in mind. The styling of these pipes will fit any situation, any place, anytime. The style and elegance transforms and sets a mood of timelessness. This pipe fits the person who is equally comfortable in a palace or cottage. Own one of these pipes and sense a connection with the past and the future. Every Horn is beautifully finished, bringing forth the incredible and unique wood grain that is captured within each pipe. Combining style and comfort, the Horn is a pipe to be admired and enjoyed for years. | [[File:SamLearned.jpg|thumb|left|Sam Learned, 1936-2015]][[Image:65thsamlearned.jpg|thumb|300px|Bent Apple, courtesy, [http://www.smokershaven.com/index.asp?PageAction=VIEWPROD&ProdID=3748 Smokers Haven, 65th Anniversary set]]]'''Horn''':The Horn Pipes are designed with the Renaissance person in mind. The styling of these pipes will fit any situation, any place, anytime. The style and elegance transforms and sets a mood of timelessness. This pipe fits the person who is equally comfortable in a palace or cottage. Own one of these pipes and sense a connection with the past and the future. Every Horn is beautifully finished, bringing forth the incredible and unique wood grain that is captured within each pipe. Combining style and comfort, the Horn is a pipe to be admired and enjoyed for years. | ||
'''Hunter''': The Hunter Pipes are distinguished and personalized by a wild stag antler crown joined to compliment the shank and receive the stem. Each is a handcrafted beauty of the warmest grain wood. Ready for fireside, in field or den. Hunter Pipes are primarily made in the STAR (Select) and CRESCENT (Superior) Grades, with an occasional SUN (Premium) Grade as dictated by the quality of the wood. Hunters may also have various custom treatments to the shank to compliment the antler crown, and may also have burl topped bowls. Hunter Pipes are also made in Freestyle Designs. Every Hunter Pipe, regardless of whether it is a Standard Shape or a Freestyle Design, is a true one-of-a-kind creation. | '''Hunter''': The Hunter Pipes are distinguished and personalized by a wild stag antler crown joined to compliment the shank and receive the stem. Each is a handcrafted beauty of the warmest grain wood. Ready for fireside, in field or den. Hunter Pipes are primarily made in the STAR (Select) and CRESCENT (Superior) Grades, with an occasional SUN (Premium) Grade as dictated by the quality of the wood. Hunters may also have various custom treatments to the shank to compliment the antler crown, and may also have burl topped bowls. Hunter Pipes are also made in Freestyle Designs. Every Hunter Pipe, regardless of whether it is a Standard Shape or a Freestyle Design, is a true one-of-a-kind creation. | ||
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I started smoking a pipe in the Army when a friend and fellow instructor, Lt. Peter Paolucci of the Bronx, introduced me to pipes and really good Italian food. My pipe collection consists of rather pedestrian pieces picked up along the way in addition to pipes I have made myself and a growing list of those by [[Savinelli]], [[Jørgen Larsen]] and [[Peter Stokkebye]]. I am not a Dunhill person, but I met and much enjoyed my visit with Bill Taylor at the Charlotte show in the Spring of 1997, and an [[Ashton]] or two are on my watch list. I have yet to obtain my first [[Jess Chonowitsch]] or [[Sixten Ivarsson]], but they will come, and someday I hope to meet these gentleman as well. | I started smoking a pipe in the Army when a friend and fellow instructor, Lt. Peter Paolucci of the Bronx, introduced me to pipes and really good Italian food. My pipe collection consists of rather pedestrian pieces picked up along the way in addition to pipes I have made myself and a growing list of those by [[Savinelli]], [[Jørgen Larsen]] and [[Peter Stokkebye]]. I am not a Dunhill person, but I met and much enjoyed my visit with Bill Taylor at the Charlotte show in the Spring of 1997, and an [[Ashton]] or two are on my watch list. I have yet to obtain my first [[Jess Chonowitsch]] or [[Sixten Ivarsson]], but they will come, and someday I hope to meet these gentleman as well. | ||
For several years, I had seen, admired and purchased the pipes of [[ | For several years, I had seen, admired and purchased the pipes of Jim Margroum ([[Mr. Groum]]) at the South Mountain Fair, a festival held to commemorate the Adams County, PA apple harvest. Jim, a quiet and rather private gentleman, is a self-taught pipe maker who signs his pipes "Mr. Groum." Jim is retired now, but he continues to make about 200 pipes a year, as he has for the past 30 years or so. Jim specializes in fanciful carved pipes, the most famous of which is his "Apple Pipe," which is carved in the shape of an apple. | ||
My father was not a wood worker, nor was I, except for some whittling as a boy and a brief period in my teens when I carved a set of Mallard duck decoys from Western Cedar. So my hitherto undiscovered desire to carve pipes and my subsequent skill at and pleasure in doing so have come as much of a surprise to me as they have to those who know me and who discover what I am doing. In any case, in December, 1995, I approached Jim Margroum (who has since become a very good friend) and asked if he would take me on as an apprentice. I put the request to Jim as straight as I could, we seemed to hit it off, and he agreed to take me on. Jim later told me that he had wondered if I would hang in there, but when he saw that I meant business, and when my skill did develop and improve with time, he had no doubt about his initial decision to train me. | My father was not a wood worker, nor was I, except for some whittling as a boy and a brief period in my teens when I carved a set of Mallard duck decoys from Western Cedar. So my hitherto undiscovered desire to carve pipes and my subsequent skill at and pleasure in doing so have come as much of a surprise to me as they have to those who know me and who discover what I am doing. In any case, in December, 1995, I approached Jim Margroum (who has since become a very good friend) and asked if he would take me on as an apprentice. I put the request to Jim as straight as I could, we seemed to hit it off, and he agreed to take me on. Jim later told me that he had wondered if I would hang in there, but when he saw that I meant business, and when my skill did develop and improve with time, he had no doubt about his initial decision to train me. | ||