There is a general consensus that the history of Scandinavian Pipe Making starts with a Swede:
during World War II, Sixten Ivarsson (1910 – 2001) lived as a debt-collector in Copenhagen.
When he broke the shank of his pipe, he brought it to a then well-known workshop – Suhrs Pibemageri (Teofil Suhr’s pipe workshop in Copenhagen). Sadly, the responsible repairman was ill, so Sixten had to fix it himself. Seeing his skillfully executed repair, he was offered a job on the spot.
Because the supply of new pipes had been cut short by the war,
Sixten was overwhelmed with work. Thus, he learned a lot about how pipes were made, and – probably even more important – how they should not be made.