I will admit that his engineering appears to be top notch. I can't comment on how well it performs, damn, but I did take a couple of draws before cleaning the stem and it was incredibly easy and smooth. I really didn't expect that from a pipe either two chambers answer 7.25" L. No whistling unlike a few other makers. I did notice that the draft hole is slightly larger in the second chamber. That must be the reason it draws so well. Maybe I should ask the seller if he's willing to knock the price down $20 rather than ship it back. I have until tomorrow to decide. Only negative to the pipe would be trying to clean Tha second chamber. It's tight and I can't even get my pinky in all the way. I would probably need a thin stick or brush and Bacardi rum dipped paper towel to clean it out. What to do??????
I'd keep it and smoke the hell out of it. :D
As long as they're relegated to armchair activities, large pipes present surprisingly few "handling problems", and Anthony's TRUE double chamber design absolutely does make for a superior smoke. He has made and sold hundreds of them, and in most cases people who get one soon get more.
Their appearance is definitely a "form follows function" thing, but you knew that before bidding.
Cleaning is a non-issue once you see it done: Just twist the corner of a paper towel into a thin spike, gently "tease it" with a rotary motion into the chamber until it starts to get snug---NOT as tight as possible, you don't want it jammed so tight it can't be removed without tearing off---and then rotate the the pipe/towel combination in opposite directions so that the "tail" loops and corkscrews around the inside of the chamber and wipes it clean.
Just be sure to "mop" the chamber after every smoke, and leave the stem out until next time so air can circulate.
Always a surprise to first time owners of a true double chamber pipe is the chamber never gets gunky. The only thing that collects inside is water vapor. Anthony has opened several pipes that had been smoked many hundreds of times, and the condensation chamber's walls still had visible wood grain. Some grayish discoloration was the only sign they'd ever been used.
