Wow, deja vu moment there with that tamper! Just started up with the piping again recently, but probably around '02 or some time around then, I used to smoke my pipe and go to a really small website and stare at tampers very reminiscent of the one that you posted there in style and workmanship. Guy made and sold tampers, shave kits, and if you didn't want any of that he could re-lace your bike wheels, if I remember correctly. I figured ejames might be the same guy, so I looked at his created topics to see some of his other work, and while he is not the same guy, he actually posted about him here: http://pipesmagazine.com/forums/topic/need-a-high-grade-tamper. The website is dead, but I googled "tj rakowski" on a hunch, and scrolled through this site http://www.fajka.org/news/index.php?op=show&id=64 until I saw the picture with the banner in the back-ground "hammerpilot.com" and that was the old website that I used to go to!
I don't think that he had anything quite as nice as what is at the top of this page though. Close, but not quite that nice. That pipe tool is money, ejames!
. Still waters run deep, that's E James, it's time he comes out of the Shadows. He posted this picture on Bradley's Strawberry Thread. But I thought it need this said. Thank you Ed for such a fine crafted pipe and tamper, I will treasure it always. :clap:
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