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Guidi put himself to work with ardor. Yet he was far from being an experienced and seasoned, even less a famous pipemaker. He worked eagerly on his own pipes and their permanent improvement. Beside that Guidi was much underway in order to find and to win young, promising talents. He should prove to be a golden boy in this metier. His first big haul was '''Bruto Sordini''' (today Don Carlos) in 1974. Sordini remained at Mastro de Paja until 1979. Likewise in 1974 Guidi hired two 16 and 14 years old fellows coming from Sicily. The brothers '''Elio and Guido Rinaldo''' quickly proved high talent and especially a fine sense for good design. They left in 1987 in order to work independently. | Guidi put himself to work with ardor. Yet he was far from being an experienced and seasoned, even less a famous pipemaker. He worked eagerly on his own pipes and their permanent improvement. Beside that Guidi was much underway in order to find and to win young, promising talents. He should prove to be a golden boy in this metier. His first big haul was '''Bruto Sordini''' (today Don Carlos) in 1974. Sordini remained at Mastro de Paja until 1979. Likewise in 1974 Guidi hired two 16 and 14 years old fellows coming from Sicily. The brothers '''Elio and Guido Rinaldo''' quickly proved high talent and especially a fine sense for good design. They left in 1987 in order to work independently. | ||
In the exertion to find an international distributor for the yet young brand, Guidi went to the most influential distributor '''Alberto Paronelli''' in Gavirate. But Paronelli turned him down right away. So Guidi approached Ital Impacs in 1975. This company had been founded just shortly before by '''Wojciech Lubinski and his son Mario''' after Lubinski sen. had split from Paronelli. Mario Lubinski later remembered Guidi brought with him 12 system pipes he had personally designed and carved. “They were horrible pipes, very wet smoking pipes!” The Lubinskis at first said “No!”, too. Even though Mario Lubinski had perceived Guidi’s talent and potential. Merely one year later Wojciech Lubinski had retired and Ital Impacs had been transformed to Lubinski Limited with Mario in charge as CEO. Giancarlo Guidi had changed to more normal engineering and so [http://www.lubinski.it/ Lubinski Ltd.] gave him a chance and started distributing Mastro de Paja pipes in 1976. | |||
The pipes keeping improving and growing in popularity, Mastro de Paja became an important access in Lubinki’s portfolio. However, that business relationship lasted only four years, as a sales rep of Lubinski got together with Giancarlo Guidi and they went their own way. ''(Was '''Giannino Spadoni''' – see below!)'' | |||
Also in 1976 '''Giorgio Imperatori''' came to Mastro de Paja. He was an architect by profession, enthralled for pipes to the core and hell-bent to become a pipemaker. But in the workshop of Mastro de Paja he was allowed to work on mouth pieces only. For sure, being a pipe-parts-maker was not enough to satisfy his ambitions. Therefore he flunked out by the end of 1977 and started his own brand [[Il Ceppo]] in 1978 with a lot of support from Mario Lubinski. | |||
To be continued! | To be continued! | ||