Description
Nording Pipes
A blacksmith and engineer, and son of an engineering blacksmith father, Erik was first drawn into the world of pipe making not for his love of pipes, but for his engineering skills. He constructed some pipe-making machinery for a prospective pipe-maker. Then, when he couldn’t be paid, Nording kept ownership of the machinery, and started to make pipes on his own.
Through thick and thin times Erik Nording has not only survived, his business has thrived.
Today more than 40 000 distinctive pipes a year leave his factory in Denmark, 90% to the USA.
The Eriksen Keystone:
Back to the engineering skills.
Erik and his son Knud wanted to make a very special pipe.
Their objectives were to construct a pipe:
Good for beginners;
Easy to fill, light up and smoke;
That is durable;
Requiring little maintenance;
That would leave no lump of wet tobacco in the bottom of the bowl at the end of a smoke;
That is eye-catching (available in the USA in addition to black, with a rich blue or dazzling white base);
That is affordable.
Good for pipe people who buy pipes for the smoking qualities of good briar, not necessarily (or only) for the aesthetics of fine grain, style, etc.
All these objectives are achieved in the Eriksen Keystone filter pipe.
