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| == Martin Vlasák Brno Czech Republic ==
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| '''I made my first tobacco pipe as a ten-year old boy. I carved a head of an Indian from a piece of mahogany. We needed a calumet for our kids’ games. At that time I didn’t even know what the calumet looked like. To my surprise the tobacco pipe worked and that’s how it all has started.
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| At the age of sixteen I was completely addicted to the pipes and I also started smoking them since.
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| It`s been almost twenty years ago when the available production didn’t interest me anymore. I got few briar pipe blanks and tried to make my first real pipes.
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| I would like to mention my first mentor Dr. Josef Stanislav, a true pipe expert, my first critic and advisor.
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| The pipe making became my main hobby. I also got interested in pipe slow smoke tournaments. I have become twice champion of The Tournament of the Czech Crown Lands and twice champion of Slovakia.
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| I reached 17th place at The World Tournament and our pipe club team finished in 5th place at The World Team Tournament.
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| At the beginning I made pipes only for myself, then for my friends and these days my pipes are on all continents. When I say all continents I really mean all six of them. One of my pipes spent half year at a polar station in the Antarctic.
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| In 2003 I was approached by the company Brebbia to create a pipe for Grand Designers Dalla Pipa series.
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| The pipe was made and I, somehow, found myself in the company of the names such as Alberto Paronelli, Enea Buzzi, Otto Polner,Bjarne Nielsen, Rainer Barbi or Sab Tsuge.
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| In 2014, after 25 years of running, I was forced to close down my own furniture company. Since July 2014 I’ve been only concentrated on creating and making pipes.
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| In almost 20 years of my production of pipes I have never made two identical ones. I hope my ideas will never leave me and I’ll still be able to bring you something new...'''
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| '''Website:'''http://www.martinspipes.com '''Facebook:''' http://www.facebook.com/pages/Martins-Pipes-Bohemia/257548591118631
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| [[Category: Pipe makers by nationality]]
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| [[Category: Czech Republic]]
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