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'''By Lasse Skovgaard''' | '''By 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. | 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. | ||
[[Image:Lasse Skovgaard.jpg|left|thumb]] 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. | |||
[[Image:Lasse Skovgaard Pipe01.jpg|right|thumb|Image Courtesy of Lars Kiel]][[Image:Lasse Skovgaard Pipe02.jpg|left|thumb|Image Courtesy of Lars Kiel]][[Image:Lasse Skovgaard Pipe03.jpg|right|thumb|Image Courtesy of Lars Kiel]][[Image:Lasse Skovgaard Pipe04.jpg|left|thumb|Image Courtesy of Lars Kiel]]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.Ø. 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. | |||
Along with my education in high school, I was practicing making pipes in my father’s workshop. I was nineteen years old when I started to make the W.O.Larsen straight grains. | Along with my education in high school, I was practicing making pipes in my father’s workshop. I was nineteen years old when I started to make the W.O.Larsen straight grains. | ||
[[Teddy Knudsen]] is a friend of my father; I spoke to him about the big pipe show in Chicago. Teddy told me to try and come to the show in Chicago and bring pipes stamped with my own name. | [[Teddy Knudsen]] is a friend of my father; I spoke to him about the big pipe show in Chicago. Teddy told me to try and come to the show in Chicago and bring pipes stamped with my own name. | ||
I went to the 2004 Chicagoland | |||
I went to the 2004 [[Chicagoland International Pipe & Tobacciana Show]] with a batch of 12 smooth pipes. | |||
I could not have wished for a better welcome; everyone treated me very friendly and it was a lot of fun to meet many of the other pipe makers in the world. I sold out all 12 pipes at the show. | I could not have wished for a better welcome; everyone treated me very friendly and it was a lot of fun to meet many of the other pipe makers in the world. I sold out all 12 pipes at the show. | ||
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After attending the show in Chicago I am now selling my pipes in many countries around the world. | After attending the show in Chicago I am now selling my pipes in many countries around the world. | ||
=== Contact Information: === | |||
Email: mailto:skovgaardpiber@hotmail.com | |||
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[[Category: Pipe makers by nationality]] | |||
[[Category: Denmark]] | |||