Pipe Maker Jack Ryan on Radio Show of July 30, 2024

[admin]

Our featured interview on tonight's Pipes Magazine Radio Show is with Scottish artisan pipe maker Jack Ryan. Jack had been enjoying smoking pipes for a few years, and being a wood worker, he naturally became interested in making pipes. He has been crafting unique, one-of-a-kind pipes since 2021. At the top of the show, Brain will tell a tale of his friend’s newly opened tobacco tin that looked really wrong. No names will be named, but his experience working for a pipe tobacco manufacturer leads to several clues as to what happened here.

The show airs every Tuesday at 8:00pm eastern US time, and can be found at PipesMagazine.com and all podcast apps.

 

[MattRVA]

Looking forward to this one. My Jack Ryan pipe:
Pipe #48

 

[admin]

Looking forward to this one. My Jack Ryan pipe:View attachment 327253
Pipe #48

Nice!

 

[AroEnglish]

Looking forward to this one. My Jack Ryan pipe:View attachment 327253
Pipe #48

I really like Jack's rustication style. It reminds me of cork, especially when he does a light or oil finish. Definitely want to pick up one of his pipes before the eventual price bump.

I would've also loved to have heard what his plan is to from current fulltime pipe maker to permanent fulltime pipe maker.

Brian, one suggestion of a former carver to interview is Wayne Teipen whom you interviewed previously. I can't find any info about current pipes from him (though he appears to be active on the Pipe Makers Forum).

 

[kcghost]

Always looking for new guests is Brian. This guy gave a creditable interview.

 

[lordofthepiperings]

My air conditioner started having issues after the fifth day in a row over 115°F last month. Luckily we changed the filter and let it rest over night and it started working just fine again.

That’s an interesting tin that your friend got. I haven’t ran into that issue myself yet. Thanks for the insight.

Jack’s pipes look fantastic and the price point is very affordable. Interestingly enough the other day I was thinking about what he was saying, that it’s incredible in pipe making that you can have such exactness and precision in classic shapes and at the same time you can have free reign in freehand asymmetrical shapes to let creativity completely take over, but are still pleasing to the eye. I wish him the best in his carving career.

I guess I should give my disciplines for pipe smoking in the Olympics.

1.) Slow Smoke - Traditional slow smoke competition
2.) Lunting - everyone gets two matches and a tamper to get the pipe going and the person who keeps it lit while walking the longest wins
3.) Coolest Smoker - Everyone gets same pipe and blend and smokes it for 20 minutes, whoever’s bowl has the coolest temperature at the end of 20mins wins

 

[Squatch347]

I appreciate that he mentioned the complex coordination that the opening ceremonies pulled off, that was an impressive feat to be sure. But the ridiculous Last Supper debacle was hardly something to be praised. It was clumsy, cringy, and lazy. It wasn't art, there wasn't a message, it was simply sophomoric edginess.

 

[Squatch347]

Second comment, the tampers he has and the pipe he is smoking are gorgeous. I have been looking for a matte/raw type finish and they are surprisingly hard to find.