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Jeremiah Sandahl
The workshop of American handmade pipe maker Jeremiah Sandahl, working in Minnesota; known for the briar pipes of a self-taught maker who started without a ready-made pipe-making kit.
Jeremiah Sandahl is a handmade pipe maker working in the U.S. state of Minnesota. His workshop does not do batch production; every pipe is shaped individually. The main reason Sandahl is discussed in the community is that he entered the craft not with a ready-made kit but with a bare block of briar. Records do not give the exact year the workshop was founded; the earliest known traces reach back to the mid-2010s.
Product Profile
Pipes seen in trade records are marked on the shank face with "JEREMIAH" and "SANDAHL" arranged in an arc; in the middle sits a "USA" stamp along with the last two digits of the production year, accompanied by a small animal figure. Surface treatment includes both plain polish and sandblasting, and on some examples the shank band is decorated with silverwork. The maker is known to have a quality-grading system based on his own criteria; there is no accessible record of the tiers and criteria of this system.
A Self-Taught Craft
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