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<gallery widths=250 heights=185 caption="1983 Clairmont Example with Shank extension, courtesy Doug Valitchka"> | |||
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<gallery widths=185px heights=200px Caption="Example, nomenclature, and brochure, courtesy Doug Valitchka"> | |||
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<gallery widths=200px caption="Two more examples and nomenclature, courtesy Doug Valitchka"> | <gallery widths=200px caption="Two more examples and nomenclature, courtesy Doug Valitchka"> | ||
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All in all Tom Spanu spent 16 years in the North where he worked with many other famous pipemakers like '''Guiseppe Ascorti''' and '''Luige Radice''' e.g. In 1979 he finally felt it was time now to continue on his own. So he returned to Sardinia where he established his own workshop with some help from his brothers. A firm was founded to market the pipes, the Novarte S.N.C. di Spanu Tommaso. Furthermore he purchased a lisence from the local government and following Spanu is the only pipemaker worldwide who grows, harvests, mills and conditions his own briar! | All in all Tom Spanu spent 16 years in the North where he worked with many other famous pipemakers like '''Guiseppe Ascorti''' and '''Luige Radice''' e.g. In 1979 he finally felt it was time now to continue on his own. So he returned to Sardinia where he established his own workshop with some help from his brothers. A firm was founded to market the pipes, the Novarte S.N.C. di Spanu Tommaso. Furthermore he purchased a lisence from the local government and following Spanu is the only pipemaker worldwide who grows, harvests, mills and conditions his own briar! | ||