VAUEN :: Pfeifen und Filter

Pipe manufacturing

You want to see how a pipe is made? You need tips for smoking your pipe correctly? In our movie you will get more useful information - just watch it.

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First class briar-wood from the sun-kissed Mediterranean region is a basic prerequisite for a "real VAUEN" as a high quality raw material. Only ten percent of the briar root tubers dug out satisfy the high VAUEN standards and can be worked into pieces of wood which are suitable for pipe production.
1. Sawing the rough outlines of the future pipe bowl.	2. While copy milling the more precise shape of the pipe bowl appears. Moreover this is the only semi-automated processing stage at VAUEN.
3. Checking and sorting of the rough pipe bowls to meet quality criteria with the experienced eye of the master.	4. The air hole is bored.
5. The mouthpiece is made of high quality acryl with the Conex system fitted. The internal conical connection sleeve guarantees the Dr. Perl junior activated charcoal filter the best possible fit.	6. The pipe-bowl and mouthpiece are sanded down to create a seamless join. This precision work is repeated up to five times to lend a particularly silken touch to the surface.
7. Special quality pipes are given a distinguishing mark, a white spot on the mouthpiece (grey on export articles).	8. Careful staining by hand in several passes and with various shades brings out the contrasts in the grain.
9. The pipe-bowl and mouthpiece is polished with wax.	10. The protection -coating is applied, this is a secret recipe of VAUEN. In this way, the pipe-smoker can enjoy the pipe from the very first draught without having to endure the tiresome smoking in procedure.
11. The final quality control process. If the most minor of defects becomes apparent, the longpath of processing has to be taken from the beginning.	12. After 60 work stages, all conducted by hand, the "genuine VAUEN" is given its distinctive mark: a VAUEN stamp and model number.