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Tom’s Pipe-Line

In April 2001 Thomas Habermacher attended one of the pipemaking courses the Argovian pipe artisan Franz von MATT frequently held at Ballenberg course center. Habermacher didn’t have any intention to produce pipes one day. He just wanted to get a better understanding of pipes learning a bit more about their specific engineering.
Yet a magic effect seems to have come from the stand-up poker he manufactured over that weekend. He added some machines to his hobby workshop and began to make briar pipes in his leisure time. Franz von Matt gave him some more instructions and supported him furthermore with good advice as well as qualitatively good briar.
Habermacher kept and smoked the first pipes for himself and later gifted them to friends and to some experienced pipesters. Encouraged by friendly feedback he started to offer his pipes under the name Tom’s Pipe-Line.
Many designs are clearly influenced by von Matt. The briar today comes from Korsika, Tuscany and Morocco. As material for the bits he prefers ebonite, but if it matches the character of the pipe he sometimes applies one of colored acrylics he moulds himself.
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Category: Switzerland
Tony's Pipe Towne

Tony's Pipe Towne was a tobacconist on North Keystone Avenue in Indianapolis, Indiana in the 1970s who sold a house line of pipes stamped with their name. Little is known about this retailer, which was founded on May 15, 1970 as Pipe Towne, Incorporated with an address of 44 Virginia Avenue in Indianapolis, now the site of a bail bondsman. The company sees no mention in print after 1979, and by 1988 was dissolved by Indiana for inactivity. 
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Torben Dansk

Torben Dansk pipes were originally made by Torben Hetler. Next to other manufacture brands (Danmore, Tabago e.a.) they appeared in the first cataloge of Dan Pipe (originally named "Danske Pibe"), a pipe and tobacco mailing enterprise established by Heiko Behrens in 1972. Following the pipes became well-known and quite popular in Germany. Later they were made by Lars Christensen's manufacture. According to the cataloge 1992/93 they were made by Poul Winslow.
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Category: Denmark
TotemStar

TotemStar
TotemStar is the brand of artist Gunnar Weber-Prada
I was born and am living in Los Angeles, California. I have been an artist for most of my life. Visual communication by illustrations, paintings, photography or filmmaking have been my primary work. I have always had an interest in pipes, though never explored them until my late 30s.
I started with making pipe T-shirts, acrylic pipe racks (The Pipe Monolith) and later started working on pipes. Two years after starting to learn about making pipes, the very first public showing was a large pickaxe freehand (Pipe 001), at the Los Angeles pipe show. The positive critiques encouraged me to continue in the craft. Pipe nomenclature is all within an oval. Stem nomenclature is the RedLine logo on the mouthpiece and a reiteration of the grade near the shank in the form of copper, silver, gold or platinum dots.
Pipes from the first two years of production. 
Note the much thicker early version of the RedLine stem logo on pipe 001.
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In May of 2007 I went the the Chicagoland International Pipe & Tobacciana Show. Here I met with many pipe makers from all over the world. They encouraged me and I ended up visiting with the american artist Lee von Erck who gave extensive in-shop guidance. 
In late 2007 I created the Icon pipe tamper shape, made from solid aluminum. In May of 2008 the icon was released in copper at the Chicagoland International Pipe & Tobacciana Show. 2009 now has the Icon also made from steel and brass, with more developments on the way.
 Gunnar Weber-Prada
 Los Angeles, California
 USA
 
 E-mail: souljer@mac.com
 Website: TotemStar
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Category: United States
Tower of London

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The following pipe is Marked simply "Tower" and more stylized, but includes London Finish prominently as well. Same company, or different?
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Category: Pipe makers by nationality
Category: Great Britain
Trangoni

From Pipes, Artisans and Trademarks, by Jose Manuel Lopés'
Fulvio Trangoni was born in 1952 in Dueville. He is a member of the Pipa Club de Vicen. After twenty years as a diver in the Navy, Fulvio decided to concetrate on making pipes and learned the art from Fabris an artisan from Trieste. He produces 150 to 200 pipes a year in his garage. Almost all the pipes are smooth, and with metacrilate stems. Best finishing is marked Collection. The grading (ascending is shown through the numger of anchors).
See an illustrated article on the website of the Milano Pipa Club (MPC).
 Fulvio Trangoni
 Via S. Agostino 18
 36016 Thiene (Vicenza / Veneto)
 
 Tel.: 0445 367303
 E-mail: marinatrang@libero.it
 
 Category: Pipe makers by nationalityCategory: Italy
Trapwell

Trapwell pipes marked with "World's best briar" are made of Mountain Laurel (Kalmia latifolia) a species from the Ericaceae family.
The brand was made by D & P Pipe Works, owned by D. P. Levitas and located in Sparta, Alleghany County, North Carolina close to the population of Mountain Laurel in the area. Later, this company changed its name to Sparta Pipe Works and still later to Sparta Industries.
There were at least three pipe brands made from the Mountain Laurel: Trapwell, Breezewood and Custombilt.
This information courtesy Pipephil
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Category: Pipe makers by nationalityCategory: United States
Trebor

The Patent Number on Trebor pipes is 6518/12, and it was granted to Baron Cohen of Baron & Co., Cigarette Specialists - Piccadilly, London W - on December 12, 1912 for his design for a "cooling chamber" in the stem of a pipe.https://patents.google.com/patent/GB191206518A According to Wilczak & Colwell in their book titled "Who Made That Pipe?" Trebor was a brand of Cyril Arnold LTD/Baron & Co.
Trebor pipes were apparently bundled along with John Cotton products in promotion material in various US tobacco publications. This is mentioned in a thread on Pipesmagazine.com, which includes the following comment by Jonathan Guss:
"More obscure is the progressive ownership of the Trebor pipe. It continues to appear in industry brand listings through 1957, after which is disappears, never to return. Over the approximately 36 years for which I have data, it is shown as owned by Cohen & Co. in 1921, by Trebor Ltd and Cyril Arnold Ltd from 1927-1929; by the same two entities plus Baron & Co. from 1932-1938; by the same three entities plus L. Hill & Co. in 1939; and after a gap in the listings reappears as owned solely by L. Hill & Co. from 1949-1951; finally from 1953-1957 the name is owned by Trebor Products & Agencies. What does this alphabet soup of entities mean? Without a lot more digging I can't say. Several are clearly related to Baron Cohen the man; others are more obscure, bobbing up on the waves for a few years before sinking without a trace. Cyril Arnold Ltd, for example, only appears in the London phone books from 1925-1930. Similarly brief appearances are true of most of the other companies."Courtesy Pipesmagazine.com
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== Links ==
* The following is a PDF of the complete Trebor 1912 patent application, courtesy Doug Valitchka
== References ==
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Tredway

Bob Tredway is a pipe maker out of Coeur d' Alene, Idaho. Began making pipes in 1965 for himself, spending up to 10 hours on one pipe, later to average two pipes a day for himself and others. 
According to a local newspaper article he made about 200 pipes a year, and back in 1984 sold them for $40 - $80 each, and on the requests of the buyer even up to $250. His pipes were made from Mediterranean briar, which have been boiled and dried for 2 years. He might have to go through 3 of 4 blocks to find one he is satisfied with, as he never does putty fills like the commercial pipe makers do. He specialized in freehand or Free-Form creations, and also made a log of pipes for women. Some of his unique pipe designs were for viewing, not really made for smoking.	
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Category: United States
Trent

Philip Trent about himself and his work:
"I'm 36 years old (ca. 42 by now), and live, breath and sleep pipes. I started like everyone else, with a kit, grinder and files. I sell pipes to make a little money to buy briar to make pipes to sell so I can go and buy more briar. My dream is to carve full time. I would love to make the centerpiece for someone's collection, but first and foremost, I want folks to say 'Yeah, that such-and-such is a high-dollar beauty, but this Trent pipe is my best smoker.
Pipe making philosophy: All my pipes are drilled to achieve the most wide-open smoke possible, because I hate to relight a pipe every time I set it down for a moment. So my pipes burn well but don't overheat and don't pass debris up the mouthpiece. Similarly, I find that a massive pipe carved from heavy wood feels like a frying pan hanging in your mouth, so however impressive it may look, you'll pass it over when the time comes to pick one off the rack. I have other principals I follow that help me determine chamber size, wall thickness, smoke hole diameter, etc. The overall aim to make a pipe that smokes like a dream.
The briar I use is very old, well-seasoned Grecian wood, heat-cured using a proprietary process. The blocks were stored outside for years prior to heat-treating, and then re-moisturized in the humid Indiana climate. I am also making pipes from oil-cured Algerian briar, using a process I developed in consultation with a food chemist, and I'm very pleased with the results, and think you will be too. But on to the pipes."
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Contact information:
: Philip A. Trent
: South Bend, Indiana
: USA
: Pipes available at finepipes.com
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Trever Talbert on Design Work

Design Work, by Trever Talbert
The first part of making a pipe is designing it, obviously. This process is a lot looser for me than it was originally, when I would try to elaborately plan out exactly what the pipe would look like when finished. These days, I will as often as not just start cutting and shaping a block, and let the inner life of the grain guide me toward whatever shape the pipe wants to be. I abandoned the complex planning process when it became apparent that briar was simply too unreliable a medium on which to base such detailed designs. Flaws and grain peculiarities crop up on a regular basis, and rigid design work can't cope well with this. I also prefer the less-restricted style of working because it's more stimulating to creativity and at the same time more in harmony with the wood.
Despite the above, design work is still a big part of what I do - just not in the same role that it once was. I still sketch pipes constantly, and invest a great deal of work in designing shapes with good airflow characteristics and visual appeal. However, now most of this designing occurs in a vacuum without specific pieces of briar in front of me. I simply draw out ideas for pipes of different grain patterns and let them accumulate.
These sketches come into play as I begin to work the wood. I'll usually pick several sketches that fit the block and the visible grain, and then narrow my choices as the pipe starts to come to life. In this way I have a pool of solid styles and designs to choose from, yet still retain the freedom to let the pipe become what it wants to.
Below are some sample sketches that give a decent idea what my design files are like:
Trever Talbert on Detail Shaping

From Creating, Briar, by Trever Talbert, from his website, and used by permission.
== Detail Shaping ==
Depending on what style of pipe I'm making, this can either be a short stage or the longest of them all. Now that I have a drilled stummel, it's time to start turning it into something people will recognize as a pipe. The first step is the general shaping, pictured below. This is where the flat edges and the base of the bowl are sanded away to give the bowl its proper look. This pipe is being rounded off around the bowl using a flat sanding disc.
The next step is to move to the detailing table, where I will embark on what can occasionally be an extremely long process of tweaking the shape until I'm happy. Complex forms such as the tentacled Cthulhu pipes or carved figures can take just about forever to get right, and all that work happens here. On standard shapes such as billiards and pokers, however, this is a simple process and just takes a little tuning to get the best look. I use two flexible carving tools with various sanding drums and cutters, and then move on to hand files for the fine work. Below is pictured the general area where this work is done, which is always a mess. One can see the smaller flex-shaft carver and the handpiece of the larger foot-pedal-operated carver, as well as the selection of detail files on hand.
The final detailing of the shape is done using hand files, both flat and round. Here I am using a large file to get the join of the shank and bowl right before moving on to smaller and smaller files as I make the join more defined.
The stummel is now shaped and ready for its finishing stages, which may include rustication and/or sandblasting, plus fine sanding, curing, and coloring. This stummel has been lightly sandblasted already.
Trever Talbert on Finishing

From Creating, Briar, by Trever Talbert, from his website, and used by permission.
== Finishing ==
Finishing a pipe is sometimes as laborious a process as the rest of creating it! Sanding to a smooth shine is a big part of it, as the better a natural sheen to the wood, the better it will hold its gloss from waxing later. I use sandpaper from 80 grit to 8000 grit, as well as fine grade steel wool.
 My highly-sophisticated sandpaper storage system. The amount of work depends on what finish I'm after. Ironically, the highest grade pipes have the easiest finishes, because I don't stain them at all. Instead, I leave them in their natural golden-brown coloring and simply wax them and polish them.
The lathe is set up for waxing, with a solid block of carnuba shown.
If the pipe is going to be stained, there's quite a process involved. I will generally stain in repeating stages, where one dark understain will be applied, sanded and buffed, and then another applied over it. Eventually I'll finish with the surface color, which is chosen to look its best with the various tints of under-colors showing through it. The pipe will then be waxed and stamped with its year of creation, its grade, any special stampings, and finally the Talbert Pipes logo. On Signature grades and Minaria grades, I sign each by hand with a scriber rather than using the standard logo stamp.
I'm putting the final coat of carnuba onto one of the 1999 Yule pipes.
Once the pipe is buffed and hand-polished, it's ready for smoking!
Trever Talbert on Sawing and Shaping

Trever Talbert on Sawing & Shaping
I do a great deal of the shaping and styling of a pipe before any drilling is ever done, which is backward from what most pipemakers do. There is a reason for it, however.
Using a bandsaw and harsh sanding equipment, a stummel can be taken to a rough general shape in a short time. Most importantly, doing this prior to drilling means that any flaws in the block are exposed before the bowl shape is committed.
Many times in the past, I've drilled a good bowl and airhole only to find that a large hidden flaw came within millimeters of my bowl interior. This is tragic, because this means a sandpit fissure of 1/4" size could cause the waste of an entire block. By shaping first, I can identify any such flaws and re-work the bowl placement around them, even to the point of moving the bowl forward, backward, or sideways in the block. There's still a chance that the bowl interior will evidence some major flaw, but I'm able to get a good gauge of the likelihood of this by my observations in shaping the block. I leave a small flat area at the base of the bowl on each side, which is used for gripping by the jaws of the lathe chuck when drilling begins.
Band Saw
Here is the bandsaw from our Brittany shop, covered in dust and scraps as always.
I use my band saw to do some basic cutting and get rid of the largest chunks that aren't part of the pipe. I make a point to save the largest and best of these pieces for use in making briar rings and tamper descorations, and have a bucket full of them.
At this point I do a little more sawing on the bandsaw. I take off the thick sides of the shank and any other large chunks of wood that I'd rather not have become sawdust. Once I'm done with the bandsaw, I use a steel cutting wheel at high speed to rough shape the pipe. These wheels are extremely abrasive and can cut a large block to a pipe shape very quickly, though they are also hellishly dangerous to use..
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Trey Rice Pipes

Welcome to Trey Rice Pipes! Trey Rice is a part time pipe maker located Fort Worth, Tx with a love for making things. 
Trey's obsession with pipes began in the summer of 2009 while in college at Texas A&M. A friend of his introduced him to pipe smoking while on a camping trip. He didnt know it at the time, but that was the beginning of an incredible journey of making pipes. He began to look around to purchase a pipe of his own and quickly found out his tastes were more expensive than a college budget would allow for. Instead of buying a pipe, Trey set out to make one with the knowledge available online. He has always enjoyed wood working and making things, and thought making a pipe would be a fun project. That fun project has turned into something of an obsession. The pipemakersforum.com became the primary source of most of the knowledge he gained over the next few years. After a year or so, Trey began to sell his pipes at a local cigar shop and expanded his skillset by exploring the different styles and shapes. 
In college, Trey studied architecture. In the six years of undergraduate and graduate level studies, he found that the same ideas and thoughts that shape architecture into a building are used to shape a block of briar into a pipe. Form, function, proportion, parti, detailing, and durability all apply equally to both architecture and pipe making. These principles inspire and drive my pipe making philosophy. 
After college, Trey moved into a small apartment with no space for a shop. Pipe making went on hold from 2013 until the beginning of 2017. At this time, Trey and his wife bought their first house with a small add on room to the garage that was perfect for a woodworking shop. Trey began making pipes again, meeting new pipe friends, and improving his craft. A big improvement came when Trey's grandfather's metal lathe was passed down to him. Its an old 1970's craftsman farm lathe, but it allowed Trey to add a new level of precision to my work. At this time, He began attending more pipe shows and was able to be exposed to many, many more pipes. These experiences had a cumulative effect to the online research and learning from earlier in his pipe making career. 
===== About My Pipes =====
All of my pipes are hand crafted from the finest briar available, shaped and finished by hand. Each pipe is fitted with a hand cut stem of Ebonite or Cumberland and will pass a pipe cleaner from the bit to the bowl.
Contact Information:
 Trey Rice
 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/treyricepipes/?hl=en
 Website: https://www.treyricepipes.com/
 Email: treyrice89@gmail.com
 Telephone:
 682-597-4863
Tria Pipes

Adrian James "TRIA" consisted of American pipe makers and American manufactures. TRIA provides beautiful high end pipes, fine leather goods, high end men's accessories. 
One of the pipemakers working for / under the Tria label is Timothy W. Thorpe (→ Thorpe).
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Trovato pipes

TROVATO PIPA was started in the beginning of 2013 by Vincenzo Trovato, a Sicilian-American born in 1944. The name "Trovato Pipa" means "To find pipes" in Italian. The small pipe restoration company acquires NO BRAND NO NAME NO DESIGNATION pipes that are destined to permenent retirement and or worse yet the burn pile and he painstakingly brings them back to life. Having many years experience in the horse business he is well aware of animal rescue foundations. He has applied the same theory of saving and nurturing old worn pipes that have seen better days or have been mistreated. After restoring these estate and antique pipes he brands them his own and sells them on e-bay and in the Easton Cigar and Smoke Shope in Easton, Maryland where he resides. Visit www.pipedreams.co for more info and to contact him.
Trypis

Phillip Trypis has been a pipe maker in Canada for well over 40 years. Originally from Greece, his experience ranges from cutting burls in a briar mill to making literally thousands of pipes out of his home in the hamlet of Oakwood, Ontario. Brigham pipes benefitted from Phillip's skills where he worked for a number of years. There he directed the pipe production of the company when it was producing over 50,000 a year. Even though he left to start his own pipe shop, he still imported briar and turned tens of thousands of bowls for Brigham not to mention produce a large number of his own branded pipes.
Many of the styles are traditional in form although Phillip has a number of freehand styles that are both familiar and off the beaten path. The vast majority of the higher priced pipes are very large pieces to be sure. Except where the pipe was of unusual shape or size, the frame sizes are 7.15" x 3" so you can get an idea of the scale.
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Category: Canada