Low Country Pipe, Li Zhesong, & Chinese Pipe Making

 

(Pipes Magazine) ... "I took my pipes down and showed them to [Tom Eltang] and he gave me some very helpful advice, as only an expert pipe maker could do. Of course a lot of what he told me was also just very encouraging. He said, ‘It is a good thing to be a pipe maker,’ and this simple phrase really encouraged me to persist in what I was doing. At this point I realized there was no down side to being a pipe maker ..." Continued