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Chris

@ruetzpipes

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💨 pipe maker
🇦🇹 Tyrol, Austria
🧙‍♂️ loving nature, music, my girl, LOTR and the taste of pipe tobacco

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One of my favourite shapes to make – Blowfish 🐡

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Sandblasted „Broken Godfather“ with a silver ring in the exposed area of my signature „broken“ bark. 🩶

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I am back 😎 It was the first time since I started making pipes full time I took a week off – after the wonderful and exciting but also exhausting travel to China it was well needed. I spent a lot of time in nature and that means: I am back in my workshop with soooo much inspiration. 🌱

Today I show you this rare bamboo pipe I made, because I will never forget my first time in China. 🐉 I also brought home some bamboo from China a really nice guy gifted me and am excited to work with it.

Back in the workshop. Motivated, inspired, thankful. Any pipe wishes?

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This year’s @smokingpipescom Global Pipe Making Exposition was all about „The Art of Sandblasting“ and finally I can present my pipe 🥳 With my interpretation of this year’s chosen focus I wanted to show the possibilites of contrast, depths of texture and visual character in a modern artistic way. By making the pattern without a template the pipe involuntarily revealed a nice snake on the bottom which in my opinion shows the power of art and interpretation.

Would love to hear how you like my this year’s Expo pipe for @smokingpipescom. If interested check out their website 😎

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My first pipe with the grade „sunrise peak“ in pictures. The silhouette of the Acherkogel with a rising sun 🏔️☀️, the northernmost 3.000 meter peak in the Alps and my wife’s favourite mountain, seemed to be a perfect symbol for such sparkling birds’s eyes and sharp lines of straight grain. Mother Earth is such an artist 💚

If you want to get the chance to grab the first (there will never be a first again 😎) ruetz high grade DM me 🪶

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a ruetzpipes signature: "Broken Godfather" with a light contrast blast. 😎

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Poker with horn and some nice grain ✨✨✨ Inspired by the beautiful hoopoe in my garden 🪶💚

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a long shank contrast blasted "Broken Godfather"

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a ruetz signature pipe in its natural habitat 💚

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Smooth Bulldog with ruetzpipes signature „broken“ stem.

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One of my favorite shapes is the Dublin – as a pipe maker and as a pipe smoker. It is elegant and classic but offers a lot of possibilities to find different interpretations of this shape.

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Improvement sometimes needs challenges – luckily I have customers (in this case I would rather call it friends 🙃) who ask me to do pipes outside of my comfort zone. Olive wood is so beautiful, but I haven’t made a lot of olive wood pipes yet. How do you like the result?

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