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Mastro Grandolfo is an Italian Pipemaker from Lecce. | Mastro Grandolfo is an Italian Pipemaker from Lecce. | ||
Online gallery: [http://www.mastrograndolfo.com www.mastrograndolfo.com] | Online gallery: [http://www.mastrograndolfo.com www.mastrograndolfo.com] | ||
I learned to build the pipe from my maternal grandfather. | |||
After the Second World War, during the great reconstruction of Italy, my grandfather start a tobacco shop. | |||
He also built pipes and lighters with the shells of bullets. | |||
Before I was born, he sold the tobacco shop, but has continued to build pipes. | |||
When I was 6 age old, I went for the first time in his laboratory. | |||
I remember the light that came in through the high windowless and cut the darkness, let see the wood dust in the air. | |||
There was a scent of olivewood and humidity. | |||
I was fascinated, I was a child in the laboratory of Merlin. | |||
As you can imagine, spending time with my grandfather, I learned to build pipe as a game. | |||
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