Federica and I recently sat down with Giacomo Penzo, the man behind the G. Penzo Pipes, to chat about his beginnings in the craft, what's new in his life, and how more recent events have changed his approach to pipemaking.

With a recorded history stretching as far as the sixteenth century, it's somewhat inevitable that some aspects of pipe smoking have been lost to time. Crafting materials, techniques, traditional methods of preparation and yes, shapes, have all at some point been lost.