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Real name: Steve Schuler
Age: 35
Location: Alabama Gulf Coast
Years a pipe smoker: I have experimented here and there, but no regular smoking for me (at my wife's behest).
How you got into pipe making: I've been an amateur woodworker for some years. One day at work, a friend dropped a pre-drilled pipe kit onto my desk and challenged me to make a pipe. Then somebody else asked me to make him one, so I ordered another kit. After the third or fourth request, I decided I had better learn to make these things. Eventually I landed here on PMF. I am still very much an amateur, making perhaps a dozen pipes per year (as of writing this).
Other interesting facts: Pipes are a side-line for me. Most of my woodwork consists of wooden spoons and spatulas, which I shape using a few simple hand tools and sell at local craft shows. I have four kids, and I'm a college professor in English.

The pipes I make mostly go to the Ren-Faire beard-bro crowd, so I do a lot of churchwardens.
Pipe #30 Briar CW Egg 2014 - - 1.jpg
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Pipes Group Shot Diplomat-Dublin-Gothic 2015.jpg
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- Steve S.
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