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My name is '''Lasse Skovgaard | My name is '''Lasse Skovgaard Jørgensen''', I am 22 years old (2006). I live in '''Denmark''' on the southern part of '''Zealand''', where I enjoy my life as a Danish pipe maker. | ||
Since I was a little boy, I’ve been interested in what my father ([[Benni | Since I was a little boy, I’ve been interested in what my father ([[Benni Jørgensen]]) was doing in his workshop. At the age of sixteen I started to make buffalo horn tampers for W.O.Larsen, and I also tried to make a couple of “pipes”, (my father did not think they looked like pipes) but they were not good enough. | ||
After making like a hundred pipes, they started to look better and better and of course with just a little help from my father. I realized that it definitely was not easy to even make a pipe functional, and it also has to look beautiful and elegant. With lots and lots of practice it got easier, and when I was about eighteen I started to make “two tone” and “select” pipes for W.O.Larsen. | After making like a hundred pipes, they started to look better and better and of course with just a little help from my father. I realized that it definitely was not easy to even make a pipe functional, and it also has to look beautiful and elegant. With lots and lots of practice it got easier, and when I was about eighteen I started to make “two tone” and “select” pipes for W.O.Larsen. | ||