Greci Calabrian Pipes

[slavman68]

I'm thinking about getting into artisan pipes. I heard about calabrian briar and it interested me because my dads side of the family comes from calabria. Has anybody heard of Greci Calabrian pipes?

 

[TheIronMonkey]

Do you mean Domenico Grenci?

Grenci, Domenico - Pipedia

pipedia.org

 

[slavman68]

Yes that's the article I was looking at.

 

[Uguccione]

It would be better if Grenci limited himself to making the pipes and let us smoke them (min. 10.30), but it is impressive how he creates a pipe from the plaque by working by eye, without even a preparatory drawing on the briar.

P. S.: He speaks in Calabrian and we don't understand anything, I don't think the automatic translator will work, but the important thing is to look at the images.