Sadly, Bambooshank Is Off To Heavenly Streams

I’m most definitely saddened from reading this news💔💔💔😢😢😢😢

Rest In Peace Sante, I’m going to miss you very much. We lost a warm, caring person. My sincere condolences to his family and friends.

Really sad news..I will truly miss his posts.

Cya on the flip side Banjo.

Rest in peace sir.

Rest in Peace, Banjo

RIP Banjo. I really enjoyed casting bamboo fly rods with you and regret I didn't get off my duff to drive up to Maine to share a few bowls.

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I never equated his affinity for bamboo treatments on his pipe stems and the bamboo fly fishing he loved, obvious to everyone else, I am sure .... makes sense.

Sad news. I always looked forward to seeing his posts.

Sad news.

Rest In Peace Banjo.

Damn, that's rough news. Rest in peace Banjo. We will keep it smokey for you.

Sante and I were very close friends. I noticed him declining bit by bit over the past four years, to the point where he was unable to speak to anyone on the telephone. He was a great man who fought several cancers, and other illnesses related to exposure to Agent Orange in Viet Nam. Later, he worked on nuclear sub-marines. He was one the world's best known fly fishermen.

Sante was an exceptionally generous man. He gave more to his fellow pipers than most forum members: pounds and pounds of tobaccos, many pipes (briars and meers), and other related accessories. He turned me on HU blends back in 2012, and in turn, I turned a bunch of people on to them. Sante jokingly said, "You took my job away from me". A few months ago, he surprised me with a 1960s Andreas Bauer Sultan face meer. Sante said it was, "A sultan for the Sultan of Reviewers." He was amazingly supportive of me.

Through out all of Sante's health problems, he remained strong in spirit. For years, despite his own debilitations, Sante continued to create and lead many cancer support groups, always thinking of others who were under going similar journeys. The number of people he helped is unmeasurable. When he was first diagnosed, doctors told him he had at most, two years to live, but Sante soldiered on for 14. He told me a few years back, "The doctors can't believe I'm still alive. I told them I'm staying here because I'm going to 'shock the world' ". He damn near did.

Sante was a well read, brilliant man. He told great, funny, witty stories and loved a good laugh. "My gift is the gift of laughter. I live to make others happy." We constantly traded jokes and stories. Sante would detail his battles with me, knowing that I knew he wasn't looking for sympathy or attention. I never heard him complain or whine about the pain he suffered, or ask "Why me?" or "Woe is me." He told me everything because he knew I cared and wanted to know what was happening with him, and knew I would not express feelings of sorrow for him. That pain, until now, I kept private in my heart.

God bless you, Sante Guiliani. You were one of a kind. The bravest man I have I don't expect I'll meet another like you again. But I did know you, and for everything there was about you, I shall be forever grateful.

I didn't know the man, other than reading his posts here, and on other forums, over the past year. Thanks for sharing JimInks, and for giving us that didn't know him a glimpse of what kind of man he was. Rest in peace, good sir, and condolences to all that knew and loved the man.

Going to miss the posts of him and his beautiful pipes "keeping it smokey."

If his continual presence here is any indication, he didn't suffer the indignity of a slow decline, may God so bless us all.

Going to keep it smokey tomorrow in his memory, though sadly, not with any bamboo shanked pipes.

The man had taste!

Sad news, indeed. Jim, he was lucky to have a great friend like you. He sounds like he was a wonderful man who will be missed by many. Thanks for sharing your beautiful tribute with us. I will miss his great pipe portraits. A class act, was Mr. Giuliani. God rest his soul.