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== Introduction == | == Introduction == | ||
[[File:Love=sara.jpeg|thumb|left|200px|Love Geiger and Sara Mossberg]]Love Geiger and Sara Mossberg make Geiger pipes. Love started making pipes 1997, with Sara joining him shortly thereafter. Today they work together on everything from concept to their beautifully finished pipes. | [[File:Love=sara.jpeg|thumb|left|200px|Love Geiger and Sara Mossberg]][[File:GeigerBlowfish2.jpg|thumb|250px]]Love Geiger and Sara Mossberg make Geiger pipes. Love started making pipes 1997, with Sara joining him shortly thereafter. Today they work together on everything from concept to their beautifully finished pipes. | ||
Love and Sara have a relatively small production of very high quality pipes. Most have fanciful names that reflect their inspirations, amd their stylistic designs are easily be recognized. Their work sports thin and comfortable high quality ebonite stems, sometimes with Delrin used for tenons, but more-often integral tenons or stainless steel tenons for their bamboo pieces. Other accents can include bone, mammoth ivory, exotic woods, precious metals, and other exotic materials. | Love and Sara have a relatively small production of very high quality pipes. Most have fanciful names that reflect their inspirations, amd their stylistic designs are easily be recognized. Their work sports thin and comfortable high quality ebonite stems, sometimes with Delrin used for tenons, but more-often integral tenons or stainless steel tenons for their bamboo pieces. Other accents can include bone, mammoth ivory, exotic woods, precious metals, and other exotic materials. | ||
== Pearls - Pipes == | == Pearls - Pipes == | ||
by '''Jan Andersson''' (Written Sept. 2003) | by '''Jan Andersson''' (Written Sept. 2003) | ||
[[File:Geiger1.jpg|thumb|left|250px]][[File:Geiger2.jpg|thumb|250px]][[File:Geiger3.jpg|thumb|left|250px]][[File:Geiger4.jpg|thumb|250px]][[File:Geiger5.jpg|thumb|left|250px]][[File:Geiger6.jpg|thumb|250px]][[File:Geiger7.jpg|left|thumb|250px]][[File:Geiger8.jpg|thumb|250px]]Do you know how old a Freshwater Pearl Mussel may be? Much older than we human beings, 250 years - and about one mussel in a thousand carries a pearl. It is nowadays only to be found in six small rivers in '''Sweden''' and one of them is called '''Vram River'''. That this mussel is still living healthy there we have to thank the chips-manufacturer OLW for. You may think I am joking, but that is a fact. So I have a suggestion to all consumers of chips: buy OLW next time, and a few cents from each bag will help to keep this small river healthy. And in that way you can eat the unhealthy chips with a good conscience, and that is a good thing, no? The main purpose for OLW is that the freshwater mussel shall survive, but the Vram River also has other assets; there are a lot of salmons and crayfish in that river. | |||
All that I was told one of the first really hot days in July when I was visiting '''Årröd''', a place in the middle of '''Scania''' with a great natural beauty. My purpose with this visit was not to learn as much as possible about this river (that was an extra plus), and even if I was looking for a circus-wagon, I did not intend to go to a circus performance. No, I was looking for that circus-wagon for another reason, and without too much trouble I found it on a meadow, not far from the earlier mentioned Vram River. On the outside the wagon looked rather shabby, but when I entered I found a comfortable and well equipped workshop. This is the working-place for the young '''Swedish''' pipe-maker '''Love Geiger'''. | All that I was told one of the first really hot days in July when I was visiting '''Årröd''', a place in the middle of '''Scania''' with a great natural beauty. My purpose with this visit was not to learn as much as possible about this river (that was an extra plus), and even if I was looking for a circus-wagon, I did not intend to go to a circus performance. No, I was looking for that circus-wagon for another reason, and without too much trouble I found it on a meadow, not far from the earlier mentioned Vram River. On the outside the wagon looked rather shabby, but when I entered I found a comfortable and well equipped workshop. This is the working-place for the young '''Swedish''' pipe-maker '''Love Geiger'''. | ||