Josef Prammer

I am a skilled toolmaker and a passionate pipe smoker. Born in 1953, I started carving pipes in 1993. What started as a hobby soon  became a second profession.

 I make about 250 pipes a year, about have of them are made out of fossilized wood. Additionally, I carry out repairs for Austrian specialist shops. My pipes are distinguished by thorough workmanship and accuracy.

I select the wood for my briar pipes together with my woodcutter in Calabria. The fossilized wood I obtain from local archaeological sites.

Special attention I turn on accurate workmanship. The following criteria are especially important to me:

• Exact drillings
• Accurate draft hole
• When pipes are bended, the draft hole in the drilling of the mortise  is grinded to the median, therefore

 the pipe cleaner can go through the mouthpiece smoothly

there arises no swirls in the smoke when the pipe has no filter

the filter can not block the draft when the pipe has a filter

• The mouthpiece is grinded like a V
• The bit is between 3,9 up to 4,2 mm, according to the size of the pipe (the heavier the “head” of the pipe the thicker is this part).
• Every pipe which is sold under the brand “Prammer handmade in Austria” is for 100% - even when they are rusticated or sandblasted – without filler.