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Poul Winsløw

History

Poul Winsløw was born in 1951. On the age of seventeen he started as an apprentice pipemaker in the workshop of Preben Holm. His favourite subject soon became fancy-pipes. His teacher obliged him however first to learn all aspects of the craft before developing his own style and shapes. Due to his talents Poul Winsløw learned the craft quickly and soon became manager of the workshop.

After seventeen years of successful working with Preben Holm, Winsløw decided to leave the factory and start his own business. He left the workshop as a well-trained pipemaker having a wide range of experiences. He founded his own factory in 1987, a difficult period because the freehand pipes were in those days already a backrunning business. It proved not to be simple to start his workshop and launch a line of himself, which he finally managed with a bold line of freehand pipes.

Characteristics

All pipes from the workshop of Poul Winsløw are so-called freehands, sometimes also named handcuts. The best briar wood from Corse and other Mediterranean countries is used. The designs have as starting point an optimum in harmony of the shape.

Every pipe has its own characteristics expressed in the shape, a special size and a remarkable treatment of the surface. Poul Winsløw always strives to include new accents by unexpected rustification, also by the use of contrasting acrylics and other materials.

In the surface treatment a special stain is used to accentuate the contrast in the grain of the briar, while silver stem bands and the shape of the mouthpiece enhance the harmony and beauty of the object. One could say that the Poul Winsløw pipe is designed for the individual smoker.

His unconventional and individual varieties on the classic shapes soon became popular world-wide. The trade mark on his products are two silver nails, a large one and a small one, next to each other in the mouth piece.

Winsløw pipes are divided into five qualities, indicated with letters. De group marked with E is the lowest in price. The majority of these pipes are rustificated or sandblasted because the briar is not too beautiful to be fully visible. Group D sometimes shows minimal holes in the wood, but the quality is fine. The C selection includes more interesting grains and with category B the quality once again is better and certainly more beautiful. Only the pipes of class A are almost perfect straight grains. The most beautiful pipes are mounted with gold ornaments and sometimes a precious stone. Certainly the smoking qualities of all the pipes are excellent.

The Smokiana pipeshop selection

Smokiana pipeshop offers a wide range of beautiful Winsløw pipes in a varied range of shapes and qualities. In stock are the most characteristic shapes in various sizes and different finishing. Next to traditional shapes also unexpected freehand shapes can be found related to the typical Danish freehand fashion. Most of the visitors of Smokiana pipeshop praise the Winsløw pipes as the most special, often seen as true pieces of art. The prices vary from 200 to 450 Euro.

The unconventional and individual variations of classical shapes have found a lot of friends all over the world. The trademark for pipes of his workshop is a little silver spike, worked into the mouthpiece, which assures that it is an original pipe of Poul WinslØw.