Tuesday, March 31, 2020

Amerian Hustle: Pipemaker Scott Klein


(Tobacco Business Magazine) ... In 2009, Klein was 21 years old and working as an operations manager for one of Chicagoland’s largest coffee distributors, and he had picked up pipe smoking. The father of his girlfriend at the time took an interest in Klein and was aware of the young man’s ambition to build things as well as his interest in pipes. One evening his girlfriend’s father mentioned his friendship with Alex Florov, a Russian-born pipemaker who lived about an hour away from Klein’s home, and encouraged his daughter’s boyfriend to check out Florov’s website. What Klein saw when he visited the website amazed him. Continued

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