Teddy Knudsen

 Teddy Knudsen (1947) is an artisan pipe-maker from Højbjerg, Denmark. 

Teddy has been a professional pipe maker with his own workshop since 1970. From the very start of his career, his pipes has been in high demand. Many of his pipes are sold before they are even made.

Teddy has his own style, a style recognizable to collectors as distinctly his. He works as much as possible with the wood's own grain. The pipe's shape and the wood grain always complement each other in harmonious pipes where the shape of the pipe blends perfectly along with the grain pattern of the wood - almost as if Mother Nature herself had decided how the pipe should look.

Teddy selects his briar very carefully. Most of Teddy's pipes are very lightly stained – due to the high quality of the wood - which means that most of the pipes are so 'clean' that he don't need to hide anything with a darker stain. 

Teddy’s mouthpieces are very distinctive and are one of his trademarks. At least four hours is spent on getting the right shape and balance in a mouthpiece. He start with hand files and then go over to various grits of sandpaper and finally end by using a buffing wheel. Teddy use only solid ebonite of the highest quality. Any decoration-such as bone, Pokkenholt, horn or cultured amber is glued to the ebonite. 

His Eagle Stamp is a special quality stamp for the best and the most valuable of my pipes.

Teddy now wears a Billy Childish Fear' Naught beret.