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== Interview<ref>Informations based on an interview and compiled by '''Chuck Stanion'''.</ref> ==
== Interview<ref>Informations based on an interview and compiled by '''Chuck Stanion'''.</ref> ==


"I started as a blacksmith at age 15," he says, sitting comfortably in the game room of his home outside of Copenhagen, Denmark. He looks like a blacksmith. As he smokes his pipe, his hard, powerful hands seem to overpower the simple tasks of lighting and tamping. "My father was a blacksmith and an engineer," he says. "He had a razor blade and garden tool factory and passed away when I was 16 years old. I started working as a boy in the factory on a stamping machine, just to earn some money."
[[File:NordingBrochurePg.jpg|thumb|Brochure Page featuring Nørding pipes, courtesy Doug Valitchka]]"I started as a blacksmith at age 15," he says, sitting comfortably in the game room of his home outside of Copenhagen, Denmark. He looks like a blacksmith. As he smokes his pipe, his hard, powerful hands seem to overpower the simple tasks of lighting and tamping. "My father was a blacksmith and an engineer," he says. "He had a razor blade and garden tool factory and passed away when I was 16 years old. I started working as a boy in the factory on a stamping machine, just to earn some money."


He pauses to remember, looking up toward the ceiling. The walls are lined with hunting trophies. Thirty or 40 game animals stare glassily from their mounts into the center of the room: Black bear, grizzly bear, antelope, elk, moose, deer, impala, wildebeest, gnu, wild boar, caribou &mdash; even a huge tiger shark. Nørding is the Ernest Hemingway of pipe makers, an inveterate sportsman.
He pauses to remember, looking up toward the ceiling. The walls are lined with hunting trophies. Thirty or 40 game animals stare glassily from their mounts into the center of the room: Black bear, grizzly bear, antelope, elk, moose, deer, impala, wildebeest, gnu, wild boar, caribou &mdash; even a huge tiger shark. Nørding is the Ernest Hemingway of pipe makers, an inveterate sportsman.
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== Contact Information ==
== Contact Information ==
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