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Real name: Alexandr Bondarev (Sasha)
Age: 31 (April 22, 1983)
Location: St. Petersburg, Russia
Years a pipe smoker: 5

How you got into pipe making: Tried Lorenzetti pipe for economy after a few years of cigar smoking. Liked it. Bought hand-made one and felt the difference. Desided to make my own pipe, and couldn't stop Bought lathe, bandsaw, tools, rented a garage as workshop.

My pipes here.

Other interesting facts: Freelancer, web-programmer. Finished art school. Married, have two children:

Beautiful family! Welcome to the Forum.

Where/how did you learn English so well, if I may ask? Your sentence construction, use of idioms, and so forth didn't come from a few classes in secondary school.

PS -- Lovely family

LatakiaLover wrote:Where/how did you learn English so well, if I may ask?

I thought my English is awful. I have to use dictionary twice for a sentence

LatakiaLover wrote:didn't come from a few classes in secondary school.

Soviet education was really good. It seems stupid, but foreign languages learning inside the iron curtain was compulsory and qualitative. I learned English all 10 years of school. But forgot everything later.