Scott Thile is a self-taught craftsman, whose 30-year background in the intricacies of piano rebuilding testifies to his long-time interest in woodworking and detailed craftsmanship. He had collected pipes from the time he was 16 and always dreamed of making his own pipes. In 2006 he began to fulfill that dream. Since then he has spent just about every spare minute designing and hand-crafting pipes, which he exhibits at pipe shows around the country, schedule permitting.
Working with imported Italian briar and other fine woods, Thile's goal is to bring out the individual esthetics and smoking characteristics of each piece of briar so that the pipes tastefully and subtly color the different tobaccos smoked in them while satisfying the aesthetic sense of the pipe smokers they're made for.
Thile is the piano and instrument technician at Murray State University.
