Søren Eric Andersen: Difference between revisions

 

I was now a pipesmoker, though neither dedicated nor skilled, yet. In the following years I tried quite a lot of different tobaccos and pipes of various quality. I never got the first class Orlik pipes, and I never got my [[Comoy's]] Blue ribbon, but I got a very nice [[Pibe-Dan]], and later on a couple [[Dunhill]]s. After finishing school, at the age of 17, I got a job in the workshop of [[Erik Nørding]], who at that time had around 6-7 people in his workshop. Two of these have later become well known of their own, [[Poul Ilsted]] and [[Jens Tao Nielsen]]. I have regarded Ilsted as a friend since then. One more person from Nørding's workshop at that time did make a further career, allthough very short, [[Peter Rafn]], who became  [[S. Bang]]´s first pipemaker.

 

 

In the following years I had worked for [[Preben Holm]], and here again with two people who has made their own name: [[Per Hansen]] (S. Bang) and [[Poul Winslow]]. After a short period there, I changed to [[Larsen & Stigart]], now almost forgotten, but among other things they did manage to supply Dunhill with wild danish fancy pipes. I had a very short period with [[Zettervig]] and finally came to [[W.Ø. Larsen]]. A lot of well known names have passed through W.Ø. Larsen´s workshop, in my time it was [[Poul Ilsted]], [[Tonni Nielsen]], [[Ivan Holst Nielsen]], [[Ph. Vigen]].