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Nording's father. a pipe smoker himself, taught the young novice how to properly pack, light and enjoy a pipe. "I was very proud," says Nording. "My father taught me to relax with the pipe. Not to inhale." It was much better than the cigarettes, and Nording's love for pipes has since then continued and grown.

Long before he graduated from engineering school at age 25 he was a more experienced pipe smoker than most men his age. He frequented a pipe shop in Copenhagen and often had his pipes repaired there. "The guy who did the repairs in that shop" says Nording. "could see that it was a good business, and he wanted to start his own pipe making shop." That repairman's name was Skovbo. One day he approached the young Erik Nording with a proposition. "You are a blacksmith and an engineer," Skovbo said to Nording. "You must know a lot about machinery. Can you make me some pipe making machinery?"