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Qouted from the homepage: "I was born in 1980 in Strasbourg, France and I spent my childhood in Rhinau, a small town near the German border. I have a degree in informatics and until 2005 I worked in the ICT sector. | Qouted from the homepage: "I was born in 1980 in Strasbourg, France and I spent my childhood in Rhinau, a small town near the German border. I have a degree in informatics and until 2005 I worked in the ICT sector. | ||
[[File:DavidEnrique P&T.jpg|thumb|left|200px|David Enrique, from [http://pipesandtobaccosmagazine.com/2012/03/the-french-maverick/ Pipes & Tobacco Magazine]]]In 2004, I bought my very first pipe on a flea market. It was old, unsmoked and made by one of the big Saint-Claude manufacturers. It proved to be unsmokeable ! I then discovered the wonderful world of pipes and tobaccos through the French newsgroup Fumeursdepipe and its very informative website. It was love at first sight when I discovered the Danish master carvers, especially Tom Eltang. When I visited Trever Talbert in his workshop in August 2004, I admired his passion and craftsmanship. However, I wasn’t planning on becoming a pipe maker myself. Yet. It was only a few months later, when browsing through the DanPipe catalogue and discovering the kits, I felt the urge to give it a try. It took me and my Dremel forty hours to carve my first pipe, but during the process I fell in love with woodcarving and I wanted to find out more about pipe making. | [[File:DavidEnrique P&T.jpg|thumb|left|200px|David Enrique, from [http://pipesandtobaccosmagazine.com/2012/03/the-french-maverick/ Pipes & Tobacco Magazine]]]In 2004, I bought my very first pipe on a flea market. It was old, unsmoked and made by one of the big [[Saint-Claude]] manufacturers. It proved to be unsmokeable ! I then discovered the wonderful world of pipes and tobaccos through the French newsgroup Fumeursdepipe and its very informative website. It was love at first sight when I discovered the Danish master carvers, especially Tom Eltang. When I visited Trever Talbert in his workshop in August 2004, I admired his passion and craftsmanship. However, I wasn’t planning on becoming a pipe maker myself. Yet. It was only a few months later, when browsing through the DanPipe catalogue and discovering the kits, I felt the urge to give it a try. It took me and my Dremel forty hours to carve my first pipe, but during the process I fell in love with woodcarving and I wanted to find out more about pipe making. | ||
[[File:DavidEnrique SmoothLongShankPoker.jpg|thumb|Smooth Long Shanked Poker, from [http://www.enriquepipes.com David's Website]]]Thanks to Alain Letulier, the president of the Pipe Club of France, I got the chance to visit several Saint-Claude manufacturers. This stay in the capital of the French pipe world was decisive : I wanted to move to Saint-Claude and to become a pipe maker. I quit my job as an informatician and was engaged by the [[Chapuis-Comoy]] group (Chacom, Jeantet, Ropp,…) where I worked for two years. During this period, I bought the necessary machinery and tools to set up my own workshop and I decided I needed to be tutored by foreign pipe makers in order to progress. | [[File:DavidEnrique SmoothLongShankPoker.jpg|thumb|Smooth Long Shanked Poker, from [http://www.enriquepipes.com David's Website]]]Thanks to Alain Letulier, the president of the Pipe Club of France, I got the chance to visit several Saint-Claude manufacturers. This stay in the capital of the French pipe world was decisive : I wanted to move to Saint-Claude and to become a pipe maker. I quit my job as an informatician and was engaged by the [[Chapuis-Comoy]] group (Chacom, Jeantet, Ropp,…) where I worked for two years. During this period, I bought the necessary machinery and tools to set up my own workshop and I decided I needed to be tutored by foreign pipe makers in order to progress. | ||