Pipes by Wolfgang

Pipes by Wolfgang is a one-person pipe workshop founded by Wolfgang Blazejewski in the Canadian province of Ontario. Records indicate the workshop began producing pipes in early 2007; it was short-lived, and production ended when its founder stepped away from the trade for family reasons. Its name is remembered among Canada's small-scale handmade pipe makers.

The Founder and His Background

Information available about the workshop's founder is limited and rests largely on his own statements. According to it, Blazejewski smoked a pipe for many years and only turned to making in middle age. The professional background he reports is in the visual arts: he says he ran a small picture-framing business for about twenty years. This familiarity with wood and hand tools can be seen as having laid the technical groundwork for the workshop.

The maker named Baldo Baldi, Larry Roush, and Michael Parks among the figures who influenced him. All three were makers frequently mentioned in online pipe communities in the early 2000s; this choice indicates where the workshop positioned itself within that current.