Pipe maker(Medwakh Pipe) Luigi Viprati:-
Luigi Viprati retired, but he has a damn funny sense of retirement.
While he’s no longer putting in the daily grind of work each day to
produce the 1,500 or so pipes and Medwakh Pipes he used to make each year,he’s still committing a good
amount of his time inside his small workshop in Pontoglio, Italy, refining the art he loves most.
Instead of donning his fishing cap or buying a set of golf clubs, Viprati is spending his “retirement” passionately
pursuing and perfecting the craft for which he has become world famous aiming to produce pipe of his best quality.
Anyone who has had the pleasure of meeting the Italian Medwakh Pipe and Cigar Pipe maker.
wouldn’t expect anything less from him.Viprati “I think a Pipe and Medwakh Pipe is a special lifelong companion and it has been very satisfying to know that my pipes have been, and continue to be, greatly appreciated by pipe smokers worldwide. This only makes me want to push myself harder to improve my pipe making ability and continue this passion until the very last of my days.
The Passion Begins:-Viprati possesses an artist’s soul. He makes his own grappa and sausages, and he regales visitors to his studio with ample samples of both,
mixed in with plenty of humorous stories about his life and his career. Always drawn to creative pursuits,
it’s been the world of making pipes which Viprati–
has done for 47 years in which he has won his fame.
Viprati began his career as a pipe maker during his compulsory service in the Italian military in 1972. While on leave, he bought a piece of briar and carved a pipe for himself just for fun,
but as the pipe took shape, Viprati found himself more fascinated with the process, and a passion was born.
After finishing his military service, Viprati found himself carving more Medwakh Pipes (best place to buy cigarettes online)
to use himself or to give to family and friends. During this phase of his career, he studied the brier available to him&became an expert carver of the classic shapes,
He’d much rather create shapes inspired by his own imagination and creativity. In 1984, he began a pipe brand and etched “La Pipa di Viprati” on each Medwakh Pipe he made. Soon after, he met Alberto Paronelli,
the founder of an Italian Cigar pipe & Medwakh Pipe museum,
who encouraged him to dedicate his work to creating high-quality smoking instruments. After meeting Paronelli, Viprati never considered any other career.
“I have made many Medwakh Pipes and Cigar Pipe over the years,
which have made many pipe smokers happy,” Viprati says. “But I am most happy when I can create really high-quality pieces with–
unique shapes and interesting adornments or color combinations because I see these as a true expression of my art.”
Throughout the years, Viprati has placed such importance on obtaining the best briar available
that he regularly went up into Italy’s forested mountains in Sicily, Calabria and Tuscany with the briar harvesters to be-
the first to pick with the harvest&choose the best one for him,include some of large root cut from the earth.
After selecting the briar boles he wished to purchase, he also discussed with briar,
Once he had returned to his workshop with a ready supply of briar,
Viprati always set aside the best in his inventory because he knew that-
it would be those briar blocks that would yield the super high quality pipes he really wanted to make.
“A good pipe maker tries to follow the briar and understand the grain,” Viprati explains. “I start with an idea, and the briar tells me what it wants, and I adapt the idea. I use only Italian briar from Tuscany, Calabria and Sicily because Italian briar is the best. The most important thing is who cuts it—he has to be clever to cut it the right way. You can have the best piece of briar and cut it the wrong way, and then it is [crap].