Radice At Work
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Above are the only three people involved in the manufacture of all Radice pipes.
From left to right on your screen are Marzio, Luigi (Gigi), and Gianluca Radice.

Here is a glimpse of the Radice family at work in their laboratory, which is located on the ground floor of Gigi's home.

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Above Gigi is roughing out a bowl in the Hawkbill shape while Marzio is enlarging the inner diameter of each pipe bowl and Gian Luca is polishing.

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From the photos above you may surmise that the workshop space is very small- about the size of a two car garage.

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After roughing out the Hawkbill bowl Gigi begins the process of carving- this being in the Underwood finish. And this is the first Radice Hawkbill to be finished as an Underwood.

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By no means finished the pipe begins to take on the image of what it will soon become.