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'''Sam Learned: From The American Pipe Makers Series, Number Eight'''. | '''Sam Learned: From The American Pipe Makers Series, Number Eight'''. | ||
''This article was originally published in the September 1997 issue of The Pipe Collector, the official newsletter of the North American Pipe Collectors Society [http://naspc.org (NASPC)], and is used here by permission. It's a great organization--consider joining.'' | [[Image:learned1.gif|thumb|287px|Compact Hawkbill]][[Image:learned2.gif|thumb|287px|Millennium Horn]][[Image:learned3.gif|thumb|287px|Freestyle Horn]][[Image:learned4.gif|thumb|287px|Sandblasted Horn]]''This article was originally published in the September 1997 issue of The Pipe Collector, the official newsletter of the North American Pipe Collectors Society [http://naspc.org (NASPC)], and is used here by permission. It's a great organization--consider joining.'' | ||
I was born in Seattle, Washington on September 17, 1936. My father was a hard working, self made business man. At 14, he signed on as an engine wiper on the President Jackson out of Seattle bound for the Orient, and from that day forward, for the remainder of his 78 years, he never stopped. He traveled and worked all over the world. I travel a lot myself, but it will take me another lifetime to get to all the places he went. My father was not a pipe smoker, but my grandfather was, so perhaps my fondness for and fascination with pipes skipped forward a generation from him. My mother was of Swedish stock from Nova Scotia, and I like to thing I got my brains from my father, and my good looks from my mother. | I was born in Seattle, Washington on September 17, 1936. My father was a hard working, self made business man. At 14, he signed on as an engine wiper on the President Jackson out of Seattle bound for the Orient, and from that day forward, for the remainder of his 78 years, he never stopped. He traveled and worked all over the world. I travel a lot myself, but it will take me another lifetime to get to all the places he went. My father was not a pipe smoker, but my grandfather was, so perhaps my fondness for and fascination with pipes skipped forward a generation from him. My mother was of Swedish stock from Nova Scotia, and I like to thing I got my brains from my father, and my good looks from my mother. | ||
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In 1975, my partner retired, and since then I have continued as a sole practitioner patent attorney. My legal work has involved primarily mechanical and chemical patent applications in addition to trademark and copyright application work. I also do employment agreements for corporate clients to cover employees in technically sensitive areas and trade secret work for corporate clients when they do not want disclosure by way of a patent. I continue to manage a full-time law practice by being very efficient. I schedule myself for regular Tuesday and Thursday afternoon pipe-making sessions in my shop and devote time to pipe making in the evenings, early morning, and on weekends as time allows and creativity dictates. Pipe making gives me a refreshing break, and I enjoy it and look forward to doing it. Also, having my shop in my basement is convenient. Not being married at the present time perhaps also gives me more time. (My daughter, Nicole, works for a marketing firm in New York City, and my son, Sam III, has just completed four years in the Army and is selecting a college to attend.) | In 1975, my partner retired, and since then I have continued as a sole practitioner patent attorney. My legal work has involved primarily mechanical and chemical patent applications in addition to trademark and copyright application work. I also do employment agreements for corporate clients to cover employees in technically sensitive areas and trade secret work for corporate clients when they do not want disclosure by way of a patent. I continue to manage a full-time law practice by being very efficient. I schedule myself for regular Tuesday and Thursday afternoon pipe-making sessions in my shop and devote time to pipe making in the evenings, early morning, and on weekends as time allows and creativity dictates. Pipe making gives me a refreshing break, and I enjoy it and look forward to doing it. Also, having my shop in my basement is convenient. Not being married at the present time perhaps also gives me more time. (My daughter, Nicole, works for a marketing firm in New York City, and my son, Sam III, has just completed four years in the Army and is selecting a college to attend.) | ||
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]], [[Larsen]] and [[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 [[Jim Margroum]] 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. | For several years, I had seen, admired and purchased the pipes of [[Jim Margroum]] 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. | ||