Pipe Brands
TC Fuller Pipes (Tim Fuller)
The brand of a small number of handmade American pipes produced by Tim Fuller, who started as an amateur in Alaska and later set up his own workshop in Idaho, using self-taught methods.
TC Fuller Pipes is the brand of handmade pipes American maker Tim C. Fuller produces under his own name. The brand represents the most commonly seen type of artisan-scale production in the US: a one-person workshop built up through self-teaching, without training under a master and without a factory background. Total output has stayed small, and the pipes have not entered a broad distribution network.
From Wood to Pipe
Fuller's work history is rooted entirely in wood: shipbuilding, forestry, residential and commercial construction work. He got into pipe making as an amateur hobby around 2002-2003 while living in Alaska. His first attempts amounted to shaping commercially available, partially finished kits with hand tools. As he reached the limits of the kits, he acquired proper pipe-making equipment — a benchtop drill press, band saw, sander, and tenon-turning setup — and began sourcing blocks and mouthpieces directly from suppliers thereafter. Starting with a kit and moving on to machinery and raw blocks is the route followed by most self-taught pipe makers in the US.
The Idaho Workshop
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