Quinton Wells: Difference between revisions

While under Quinton's leadership, the GKCPC started focusing on supporting, encouraging, and promoting American pipe makers. Since 2009 a big part of that effort has been the American Carvers Pipe Making Competition. Each year a theme is selected by the GKCPC and submissions solicited from American pipe makers. Three judges select seven pipes from those submitted to be included as part of the special 7 day set in a beautifully made case, which is then raffled off. The proceeds go to the carvers whose pipes were selected. The winning set, and so far the other pipes submitted, is then featured in an article appearing in Pipes and Tobaccos Magazine. Quinton's beautiful pipe was selected to be included in the 7 day set in 2011, when the theme was paneled pipes.