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[[File:Reum Logo.jpg|alt=|thumb|Reum Pipes nomenclature: a stylized 'R' encircled by 'REUM PIPES USA.']]

[[File:Reum 2 pipe set.png|thumb|A special two pipe set made by Reum in 2023, encased in a fitted box made by Rachel Reum of Just Dande Creations. Image courtesy Sean & Rachel Reum.]]

Before making pipes, Reum was a restorer of vintage straight razors, which by chance led him to pipe smoking. As may be expected, there is a large degree of overlap between the pipe smoking and straight razor communities. Like smoking pipes, straight razors have a nostalgic quality to them, and have a strong appeal with collectors. But, perhaps more significantly, both smoking pipes and straight razors are precisely constructed instruments that, with the appropriate amount of care and upkeep, will reward their users with several lifetimes worth of service.  

Owing to his interactions on a straight razor forum with users that also smoked pipes, Reum became fascinated with the pastime, and soon bought his own pipe, along with some samples, so that he could try it for himself. After spending time looking at various pipes online, this fascination quickly spread to the practices of their creation, and especially to the relationship between aesthetics and functionality in high-grade pipes. Reum consequently ordered hobby carving kits from [[Mark Tinsky|American Pipe Company]] and [[Norse|Vermont Freehand]] with the hope of exploring, first-hand, “what it was that would make a beautiful pipe smoke so well.”