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Sean Reum (IPA: ʃɔːn riːm; English '''Reem''<nowiki/>'; 1990 ‒) is a North American pipe maker who was born in Central Valley, California, and currently resides in Northwest Montana with his wife and son.<ref>Factual information for this article was provided to the author by Sean Reum. The remaining commentary is provided by the author. </ref> | Sean Reum (IPA: ʃɔːn riːm; English '''Reem''<nowiki/>'; 1990 ‒) is a North American pipe maker who was born in Central Valley, California, and currently resides in Northwest Montana with his wife and son.<ref>Factual information for this article was provided to the author by Sean Reum. The remaining commentary is provided by the author. </ref> | ||
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It would seem that this attitude of learning to work with – rather than trying to avoid – one’s constraints paid off for Reum. By developing techniques suited to the tools already at his disposal, and through furthering his pipemaking knowledge through online resources and interactions with other pipemakers, Reum was soon well on his way to creating the kinds of pipes that first drew him into the craft. While Reum’s first pipes were made in 2013, by 2017 he was able to take up pipemaking full-time. Since then, he has sold his pipes through Smoke King in the UK, TobaccoPipes and CupOJoes in the US, and independently. Reum also collaborates from time to time with Chris Morgan of [[Morgan Pipes]], making the ‘Workshop Series’ of pipes sold on Morgan’s website. Together, the two also host the Beyond the Pipe podcast.<ref>https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/beyond-the-pipe/id1580853346</ref> | It would seem that this attitude of learning to work with – rather than trying to avoid – one’s constraints paid off for Reum. By developing techniques suited to the tools already at his disposal, and through furthering his pipemaking knowledge through online resources and interactions with other pipemakers, Reum was soon well on his way to creating the kinds of pipes that first drew him into the craft. While Reum’s first pipes were made in 2013, by 2017 he was able to take up pipemaking full-time. Since then, he has sold his pipes through Smoke King in the UK, TobaccoPipes and CupOJoes in the US, and independently. Reum also collaborates from time to time with Chris Morgan of [[Morgan Pipes]], making the ‘Workshop Series’ of pipes sold on Morgan’s website. Together, the two also host the Beyond the Pipe podcast.<ref>https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/beyond-the-pipe/id1580853346</ref> | ||
In terms of the making of a pipe, Reum is extraordinarily prolific. While he keeps the techniques that allow for this pipemaking agility close to his chest, his one-man operation often rivals the output one would expect from a Danish workshop, while still maintaining the level of quality one would expect from the latter. The Danish masters, along with the artisan pipemaking tradition that emerged from Denmark in the 1950s and 60s, are also a source of inspiration for Reum’s designs, which can already be seen in his early use of flared stems, unconventional bowl/shank pairings, and ferrules of horn and ebonite. Modern classics of post-Danish artisan pipemaking continue to feature among his creations; the shield, the egg, the acorn, and the | In terms of the making of a pipe, Reum is extraordinarily prolific. While he keeps the techniques that allow for this pipemaking agility close to his chest, his one-man operation often rivals the output one would expect from a Danish workshop, while still maintaining the level of quality one would expect from the latter. The Danish masters, along with the artisan pipemaking tradition that emerged from Denmark in the 1950s and 60s, are also a source of inspiration for Reum’s designs, which can already be seen in his early use of flared stems, unconventional bowl/shank pairings, and ferrules of horn and ebonite. Modern classics of post-Danish artisan pipemaking continue to feature among his creations; the shield, the egg, the acorn, and the wide-shank bulldog, are among the many archetypal shapes that Reum interprets in his own ways. With that said, Reum, like many artisans, allows the briar itself to dictate to a large degree exactly how it will be shaped and finished, in order to make the best use of the contours and patterns in the grain of a given block. | ||
As for the finishes themselves, Reum has gravitated towards a variety of techniques over the years, favouring certain of them at one time, and then focusing on others at the next. In the late 2010s, Reum produced many pipes with a signature sandblast/rustication hybrid he termed ‘Chipblast.’ In recent years, Reum has leaned more towards either conventional, full- or partial-sandblasting, as well as conventionally smooth pipes. At the time of writing, however, he has also been experimenting with what else can be achieved through differing levels of depth and intensity in sandblasting, leading to a novel, softly-blasted finish Reum has called ‘Eggshell.’ | As for the finishes themselves, Reum has gravitated towards a variety of techniques over the years, favouring certain of them at one time, and then focusing on others at the next. In the late 2010s, Reum produced many pipes with a signature sandblast/rustication hybrid he termed ‘Chipblast.’ In recent years, Reum has leaned more towards either conventional, full- or partial-sandblasting, as well as conventionally smooth pipes. At the time of writing, however, he has also been experimenting with what else can be achieved through differing levels of depth and intensity in sandblasting, leading to a novel, softly-blasted finish Reum has called ‘Eggshell.’ | ||