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Stevenson, Alan

Alan Stevenson, a pipemaker from Wisconsin, is known for his high quality hand made pipes in classic shapes. His trademark hand cut Cumberland stems are a favorite among those who own one or more of his finely crafted pipes. His pipes have a reputation for being some of the best smoking pipes available and their quality is well above their selling price. Alan is a rather modest individual when it comes to his pipe crafting skills, as evidenced from his quote below.
Quoted from the Alan himself:
"My Name is Alan Stevenson and I live in Wausau, WI.
I am a very late bloomer for a pipe maker. Have been smoking a pipe since college in 1966. I have always wanted to try making a pipe, so after 30+ years in industry I have retired to my little corner of the garage. Pipemaking for me has really involved a steep learning curve which I have only begun to climb. My background is math, physics and chemistry, I had never touched a wood or metal lathe in my life. Starting at nearly 60 is tougher than most would think.
I had tried my hand at a couple of kits from Mark Tinsky and enjoyed working on them. So I paid the kindly Mr. Tinsky a visit in Helena. Mr. Rad Davis was there at that time as well and for a few days I had the privilege of learning a little about pipemaking from these two gentlemen. I left Helena with a couple of pipes, abunch of briar and some stems and return to finish working on my shop. About 2 years ago I got my nice metal lathe and set about learning how to hand cut a stem. If I ever learn to do that correctly then I might consider that I am a pipemaker. Till that time I am still learning."
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Contact Informatiom:
 Alan Stevenson
 Wausau, Wisconsin 54401
 USA
 Telephone: 715 - 432 - 6215 
 E-mail: stevalla@charter.net 
Category: Pipe makers by nationality
Category: United States
Stich

Stich Swiss Pipe
In the years 1940/41 major controversies occurred between the director of the Bru-Bu pipe works and some of his workers ending with a breakup between employer and employees. To avoid to become unemployed, the Stich brothers and their sons, 7 persons all in all who had partially been working for Bru-Bu for 46 years, decided to join forces and to establish a pipe workshop of their own in 1941. A very courageous decision in those war years. The family clan managed to gather a capital of CHF 21.000 and the Pfeifengenossenschaft Stich Söhne was founded.
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Like the other pipe brands in the community of Kleinlützel in the Canton of Solothurn - Bru-Bu (founded by Joseph Brunner) and Tschan (founded by Moritz Tschan) -, the Stichs began with traditional Swiss pipes like the Bündner, Schwyzer, Appenzeller or Tessin types. In 1945 the production of walking sticks was started follwed by a wide range of other wooden goods to be offered. Classically formed freehand shapes - lines "Classic" or "Romantik" e.g. - enlarged the program from ca. the 1960's on. Stich also offered the more affordable brand Gloriss.
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After a conflagration in the factory it was announced that only freehands and the Appenzeller type were produced furthermore. As of 11-08-2008 Stich notified that the pipe production is ceased completely excepting the Lindauer type.
 Drechslerei Stich AG
 Schulstrasse 339
 4245 Kleinlützel
 Switzerland
 
 Tel.: +41 61 771 06 02
 Fax: +41 61 771 06 45
 E-mail: info@drechslerei-stich.ch
 Website: Stich Swiss Pipe
Category: Pipe makers by nationalityCategory: Switzerland
Sticklun

Bernd Sticklun
 Bernd Sticklun
 Am Eichberg 2b
 38154 Königslutter am Elm
 Germany
 
 Phone: +49 (0)5353 919858
 E-mail: info@sicklun-Pipes.de
 Website: Bernd Sticklun
Category: Pipe makers by nationality
Category: Germany
Stokkebye

From Pipes, Artisans and Trademarks, by José Manuel Lopes
Stokkebye is the brand by Peter Stokkebye International Ltd. tobacco company, a subsidiary of the Orlik Tobacco Company, the biggest in Denmark. It has been produced since the 1970s by Larsen, Jørgen. Maximum grading "AAA". Symbol: "PS" (with the letters almost superimposed).
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Category: Poland
Storm

Frank Storm started to learn pipe repair in 1970 by working part time repairing pipes for the local Edward's pipe shop and other Edward's stores. In 1976, he purchased a tobacco store that was about to close down that contained the equipment that he had learned on, and he started doing his customers' pipes. He currently has one national account, Savinelli, for whom he has been doing repairs for 20 years, 75-80 shops coast to coast that he repairs for, and another 80-plus individuals. Frank sold his retail store early in 2004 and semi-retired to his home north of Saint Paul, where he built a detached workshop on his property in which he does repairs and custom pipe making as a hobby.
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Frank says that there isn't much in repairing pipes that he cannot do. He doesn't do restamping or much on logos, though he can do Dunhill dots, GBD inserts, and Sasieni blue dots. Frank says that because this is a hobby that he enjoys doing, his prices are as low as anyone's. His turn time is in today, out tomorrow, unless he's fishing. During the summer, it's a couple of days.
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 Restoration Pipe Repair
 P.O. Box 3
 or contact
 Frank R. Storm
 29403 Hillcrest Dr.
 Stacy, MN 55079-8604
 USA
 
 Tel.: 651 - 462 - 0187
 Fax: -
 E-mail: frsams@frontiernet.net
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Stout

Mark Stout: "As a young boy I remember working on weekend projects with my father. His "chippendale" pipe clenched on the corner of his mouth as the aroma of pipe tobacco filled the garage. 
 I would look on in amazement as he crafted "works of art" with his hands using only basic hand tools. Only later in life did I come to appreciate those basic of tools. I have always been drawn to art. As a young man studying art in Southern California I had explored many different mediums, Never really finding art that excited me. I have always felt that art should be enjoyed using all of your senses. I want to look at it, touch it and hold it in my hands. I want to experience it with sight and touch. I want to feel it's "soul". I began carving pipes with my first pipe being so hideous that it should never see the light of day!. I continue to carve, getting inspiration from the Master Pipe Makers of the past and Pipe Makers working today. I enjoy creating Classic shapes along with Free Hands while putting a spin on my designs. Just enough to make the "purists" a little uncomfortable. I will continue to push myself and explore new shapes and techniques to expand my Pipe carving skills." Courtesy, mstoutpipes.com
Mark Stout lives in Ladera Ranch, California in the foothills overlooking the Pacific Ocean. He was born and raised in Southern California. After high school, he attended college to continue his studies in art. Mark has explored many different mediums of art never really finding one that has ignited his passion. He began his exploration into pipe making as a lot of carvers do, by creating a pipe from a pre-drilled pipe kit and he was hooked. His first pipe was so hideous he swears it shall never see "the light of day" again. It still remains in his studio as a reminder of his continued pursuit of form and function. He felt he needed to create a pipe from the ground up to really be able to call it his own so he began build a work space to explore pipe making. Mark's studies in pipe design are primarily self-taught but he has had the opportunity to spend many hours in the shop with some of California's master pipe carvers in recent years.
Mark has always felt that art should be enjoyed using all of your senses. "I want to look at it, touch it, hold it in my hands. I want to experience it with all my senses. I want to feel its soul." Mark produces around 100 pipes a year. He continues to explore form and function in his work in his pursuit to take his work to the next level. When he is not working in his pipe studio he can be found collecting antiques with his wife of 25 years, Brandy, and his daughter Ashley. Mark also has a passion for motorcycles and likes to travel the U.S. on his Harley Davidson. Courtesy BriarLabs.com
*You may also enjoy listening to Brian Levine's interview with Mark on the PipesMagazine Radio Show.
Contact Information:
 Website: http://www.mstoutpipes.com
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Strambach

In 1904 Edmund Jolitschke founded a company that, at the begining, produced cigar and cigarette mouthpieces and later meerschaum pipes. In 1922, Robert Strambach became the leader of the company and he expanded the business. He produced meerschaum pipes and Calabash pipes, and he developed a system to produce the meerschaum mass (this is a convolut of small sepiolith pieces, grinded down, and pressed together with a bonding agent). In 1974, Edith Corrieri succeeded to her father. She is a master-turner, and today, she is the only producing high quality calabashes and meerschaum pipes in Europe.
"The Company produces blocks-meerschaum dressed and decorated with silver, and it produced Calabash pipes with headpipes coloured and economic meerschaum pressed.
In 1981, The Robert Strambach Company, the only producer of meerschaum, have had the Austria armorial and Edith Corrieri had made "Judge of Trade" for its merits. 
My company was started in 1904 by my uncle Edmund, and in 1922 my father Robert took over the firm. In the following fifty years my father expanded the firm with many ideas e.g. he developed a special technique to transform raw meerschaum into workable material (so-called meerschaum masse),the secret formula to which he revealed to me shortly before his death. As I was the only child I had the chance in 1974 to become one of the first females in the field of pipe making. After three years of training I received a diploma as Master of Pipemaking. Today we are the only manufacturer of Meerschaum and Calabash Pipes in the European Union and are still making our pipes according the same age-old formula. In 1981 STRAMBACH PIPE CO. was awarded the Austrian "State Seal" for exceptional quality."
Edith Corrieri, current owner
Contact Information:
 Messrs Robert Strambach
 Sandwirtgasse 6
 1060 Vienna
 Austria
 
 Phone: +43 1 5976 680
 E-mail: office@strambach.at
 Website: Strambach Pipes
Category: Pipe makers by nationality
Category: Austria
Strand

The following pipe is marked Strand and Sample. It was made in England. It is apparently an early Sasieni circa 1930s. There is very similar nomenclature on a Craven, which is also an early Sasieni. If you have additional information about this pipe, or the brand, please add it here, or send it to sethile.pipes@gmail.com and we will add it for you.
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Strano

Al Strano was National Brand Manager of Wally Frank Ltd. He died March 1, 1998. After he left Wally Frank he did a number of other things including real estate sales before buying Hildebrandts, a eating establishment in 1974(?). It is still owned by his family and has been the subject of articles in the New York Times among others. It is renowned for its chocolate and ice cream. 
Joe Strano is Al's older brother, and operated a small pipe shop in Ridgewood, Queens, NYC called Northampton Tobacconist. He was a very talented pipe maker, too and spectators could watch him working on his handmade pipes or doing repairs in the window of his store. Joe Strano also sold private label pipes – the bulk of these were supplied by Weber Pipe Co. in Jersey City, NJ. And he is furthermore famed for his own tobacco blends; his Tom's #1 blend is still idolized as amazing. Joe invented precision pipe repair tools which he used and sold to other pipe repair stores. People sent him pipes to repair from all over the world.
 
The Northhampton Tobacconist store closed in the late 1970’s. Joe now lives in Allentown PA and has been lately talking about getting back into pipe repair.
Category: Pipe makers by nationalityCategory: United States
Street Pipes

Street Pipes
James Street specialises in the more fancy side of pipemaking. Beside "wizard pipes" these little "snot catchers" with pivotable wooden lids - sometimes without stem - are very characteristic for his work.
Meanwhile he is probably retired.
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 James Street
 Englewood, Colorado 80150
 USA
 
 Street Pipes
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Sturgill

Ken Sturgill lives near Middletown, Ohio, and had been enthusiastically carving wood for most of his life, when he got serious about this passion in 1979. He first started carving briar pipes-- winning 1st place in 3 local contests. He operated a pipe and tobacco shop for some years, but his interest in other types of carving led him to drop the shop and quit on pipe making at the end of the 1980's.
 
He has carved collectible Santa Clauses-- numbered and signed, walking sticks, he tried himself in power tool and chain saw carving, uses knives and chisels to carve spirit faces, makes bird houses, feeders, cypress knee garden spirits and many other unusual and useful things. As well he is a great story teller and also can play a banjo doing the old timer songs.
Sturgill is also a vivid member of Miami Valley 1700 – 1865 Reenactors Company, residing in Somerville, Ohio. For the encampments, Ken has rebuilt a popup trailer into a portable log cabin in which he sets up his shop. He has his creations for sale and also demonstrates the carving of faces. Ken frequentely does classes and demonstrations-- will carve a face for the public to watch. He recently has started carving faces into old wooden rolling pins as well.
Today you may happen to find a briar pipe on his website again.
 Ken & Karen Sturgill
 Dayton, Ohio
 USA
 
 Phone: 513 267 9936
 E-mail: ken@kenswoodenwonders.com
 Website: Ken's Wooden Wonders	
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Category: United States
Stöhr

Eckhard Stöhr was a policeman turned pipemaker. Sadly, he passed away in 2018.
Examples, courtesy Smokingpipes.com
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Previous Contact Information:
 Eckhard Stöhr
 Stormarnstraße 26
 23619 Hamberge
 Germany
 
 E-mail: mail@es-pfeifen.de
 Website: ES-Pfeifen
Category: Pipe makers by nationality
Category: Germany
Suhr's Pibemageri

Suhr's Pibemageri was a pipemaking workshop started by Teofil Suhr in Copenhagen central to the birth of the modern Danish pipe. When Sixten Ivarsson, then a debt collector newly moved to Copenhagen, broke his pipe, it was to Suhr's he went for a repair, only to find a broken lathe and no pipemaker. Soon after, he was working as the foreman at Suhr's, where, among others, Peter Micklson got his start and Sven Axel Celius learned pipemaking from Poul Rasmussen and his then foreman Sven Knudsen. Pipes from Suhr's were stamped with the workshop name Suhr, and on occasion carried the same red and white dot used by Anne Julie to this day. 
While it is said to be a disagreement with Suhr's that led Ivarsson to leave for Stanwell, and all of these names went on to greater fame in later years, it would be impossible to overstate the importance of Suhr's to the evolution of the modern smoking pipe.
Category: Pipe makers by nationality
Category: Denmark
Sunrise

The Sunrise brand perfectly illustrates the split pipe production of a same label between Saint-Claude (FR) and London (GB) during the period Chapuis-Comoy and Comoy's closely collaborated (prior to early 1970s).http://pipephil.eu/logos/en/logo-s13.html#sunrise
== Gallery ==
SunriseEG01.jpg|Sunrise Etched Grain, made in France, courtesy Doug Valitchka
SunriseEG07.jpg|Sunrise Etched Grain detail, courtesy Doug Valitchka
SunriseNatl01.jpg|Early Sunrise Natural, with minimal markings, courtesy Doug Valitchka
SunriseNatl07.jpg|Sunrise Natural detail, Green dot on the stem, no Country of manufacture info or other stampings, courtesy Doug Valitchka
Sunrise-AmberGrain-Full.jpg|Sunrise Amber Grain Apple, courtesy Ethan Rutter
Sunrise-AmberGrain-Stamping1.jpg|Sunrise Amber Grain Stamping, courtesy Ethan Rutter
Sunrise-AmberGrain-Stamping2.jpg|Sunrise Amber Grain Stamping, courtesy Ethan Rutter
== Catalog ==
Comoy%27s_Sunrise.jpg|Comoy's Catalog pg, listing Sunrise
== References ==
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Super-Temp

the pipe (pyrolytic graphite/phenolic resin)
In 1963, Super-Temp Corporation began making plastic pipes with pyrolytic graphite bowl liners. They were called the pipe. In 1965, Super-Temp contracted to market their unique pipes through Venturi, Inc., the company which sold Tar Gard cigarette filters. Colors and stripes began to be offered circa 1967. About 1970, THE SMOKE pipes were added to the line - they were non-traditional shapes with a less expensive bowl liner. Venturi pipes were added around 1972 - they had no liner in the bowls at all. The pipes were out of production by 1975.
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*See the excellent the pipe website by Billie W. Taylor II, Ph.D
*You might also enjoy hearing Brian Levine's interview of Dr. Taylor on the Pipes Magazine Radio Show
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Category: United States
Sven Egholm

Sven Egholm is a fictional name. These pipes in the typical Danish freehand / fancy style of the 1970's were made by Karl Erik Ottendahl (†) - most probably as private label brand for an unknown orderer.
Karl Erik's manufacture produced a lot of brands like Jobey Dansk, Knute, Champ of Denmark, Larsen & Stigart, Shelburne, Wenhall.
Category: Pipe makers by nationality
Category: Denmark
Svend Hangaard

Svend Hangaard was born in 1944 in Jutland, and became a pipe maker later in life, after retiring from his work as a prison warden, but there is an interesting twist. He first played with making pipes while working in the prison, and even worked pipe making into a project for the inmates. He wanted to give them something productive to do that would also provide them both a useful end product and minimal opportunity to harm themselves or each other. He provided them with pre-drilled stummels (via Henrik Jorgensen, Poul Ilsted, and Tao, then all at the Svendborg pipe factory) and set his wards to shaping briar.
Svend had also been a cabinetmaker, so he was familiar with wood and tools, and handwork was already something of a passion. Being a skilled craftsman and a pipe smoker, it is not surprising that Svend became interested in making pipes. He made his first pipe in 1987. It was just for fun, but he wanted to learn more. He already had a lathe, and arranged to visit Poul Ilsted to see how a pipe was made professionally. But with a full time job, it was hard to find the time for pipe making.
In 1994 Svend moved to Faaborg, witch happened to be the home of several excellent pipe makers. Upon retiring in 2007, he contacted Kai Nielsen, who was willing to help, and he then met Joao Reis and Karsten Tarp. All of them encouraged him and gave him the help he needed to develop his skills. They also encouraged him to join them at the Chicago pipe show. It was a great experience and his pipes were very well received--all of them were sold. His pipes now sell well in the US, and there is growing interest for them in China.
The following Tarp pipes are courtesy, Monjure International
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Svend mainly uses briar from Corsica or Italy. The pipes are either smooth or sandblasted and most stems are made from Ebonite, or sometimes Cumberland. The pipes are stamped with Svend's second name though he has no grading system. The production is small, about 50 pipes a year. 
Information for this article is from the excellent book, Scandanavian Pipemakers, by Jan Andersson, and Smokingpipes.com
Category: Pipe makers by nationality
Category: Denmark
Sweden

It would be great to see an overview and history of Swedish pipe making here on this page. Please feel free to edit the page if you'd like to contribute. Pipe makers in red still need bios (just click on them and add any information you have), and the others linked in blue could be expanded on. Feel free to add other pipe makers you've a particular interest in or knowledge of. Please let me know if you need any help managing the wiki. It's about quirky still: mailto:sethile.pipes@gmail.com
Love Geiger
More pipe maker articles coming soon. Very thankfully there exists an excellent site dedicated to Scandinavian pipe makers. We highly recommend danishpipemakers.com
== Off site links ==
 Le Pipe Svedesi an italian article about the swedish pipemakers by pipology.com
Sweetheart

While this looks a good deal like a model from the Kirsten Pipe Company at first glance, Sweetheart is indeed a separate brand.
This onenot the currently displayed example is presumed to be an earlier "Sweetheart", with the stamping on the top face of the shank in script and below that word is "MADE IN U.S.A. PAT PEND".
The shank is a fluted hexagonal cross section and the internal filtering device permits ingress of air from the front of the pipe on drawing on the pipe.
Overall length 5 5/8 inch (143 m/m)
A patent was filed in 1958 and was issued on Aug 7 1962 to a Philip J Stieger of St.Paul Minnesota... US Patent #3,048,179.https://patents.google.com/patent/US3048179 This varies quite a bit from the actual production pipe.http://www.smokingmetal.co.uk/pipe.php?page=260 , courtesy SmokingMetal.co.uk
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== References ==
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Swinks

Swinks pipes have been around since the mid 1950's. Wilbur Swinks, from Franklin, Ohio was employed by a local newspaper. In 1955 (est), he started making pipes as a hobby. His pipes have one word on the left shank, "SwinkS". Swinks are high quality and exceptional smokers. Chester Blair bought his business in 1983. Chester was his apprentice. Wilbur Swinks died in 1987 at age 80. Mr. Blair and a helper made pipes for a short period then sold all of the equipment. Swinks pipes are known by very few people in the world, but in the Dayton, Cincinnati, and Colombus, Ohio area, Swinks pipes are spoken of in a somber, serious way.
The 'Swinks Doodler Aircooled' pipes, are identical to the Porsche Design pipes, with cooling fins around the bowl, but were first manufactured in the 1950`s!
Appear he had a business, Swinks Smoke Shop, 7136 State Route 123, Franklin, Ohio.
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Swinks Doodler Aircooled Billiard
(Photo courtesy of Steve Charbonneau aka Humblepipe)
Swiss Pipe

From Pipes, Artisans and Trademarks, by José Manuel Lopes
Swiss Pipe dates back to 1941 when some artisans from the Bru-Bu factory left the company to set up a co-operative. Today it has been followed by the Stich company, which produces wooden furniture and handicraft, as well as some pipes, especially replicas of former pieces.
Category: Pipe makers by nationality
Category: Poland
Swoboda

From Pipes, Artisans and Trademarks, by José Manuel Lopes
Swoboda (Wincenty) is a Czech artisan who established himself in Przemysl, Poland in 1908, founding an important pipe factory where many of today's top Polish artisans began their careers. The company lasted until 1945.
Category: Pipe makers by nationality
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