Real name: Dave Gnose
Age: 49
Location: Phoenix
Years a pipe smoker: Just started again after 30 years of cigarettes, chewing tobacco and vaping.
How you got into pipe making: Loved pipes since I was 13. There was a Tinder Box in the mall my parents had a bakery in. I used to spend hours there looking at the pipes and smelling the tobacco. I practically memorized Hacker's "The Ultimate Pipe Book". When I dug out all my pipes and started smoking them again, I decided to try making pipes.
Other interesting facts: Ex-Army Infantryman. Former Tomb Guard at the Tomb of the Unknown Solder in Arlington National Cemetery. Spent the rest of my life selling something.
OneLief
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Re: OneLief
Welcome! And thank you for your service!
Re: OneLief
Welcome. Ex Army here.
Where did you grow up? There is a little mall right across the way from me that has had a bakery and a Tinderbox.
DocAitch
Where did you grow up? There is a little mall right across the way from me that has had a bakery and a Tinderbox.
DocAitch
"Hettinger, if you stamp 'hand made' on a dog turd, some one will buy it."
-Charles Hollyday, pipe maker, reluctant mentor, and curmudgeon
" Never show an idiot an unfinished pipe!"- same guy
-Charles Hollyday, pipe maker, reluctant mentor, and curmudgeon
" Never show an idiot an unfinished pipe!"- same guy
Re: OneLief
Auroras, Co. It was a Tiffany's Bakery in the Aurora Mall.
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Re: OneLief
Welcome! Had a double take with your avatar name: in Afrikaans (my language), lief means love.
Suppose it works both ways now; one life and one love!
Suppose it works both ways now; one life and one love!
- mightysmurf8201
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Re: OneLief
Welcome, fellow grunt.