About 6 months ago I bought a VERY lightly used Anthony Machelli Poker on ebay. It appeared to have only been smoked once, barely halfway down the bowl. The bottom half of the bowl was absolutely bare briar which appeared to have never had any heat applied to it at all. The bottom of the pipe is stamped "A Machelli" and underneath the name it's stamped "USA".
After a couple weeks of breaking the pipe in, it became a regular in my rotation and eventually became one of my favorite pipes.
I've been trying to keep an eye out on ebay for more of his stuff but haven't seen anything, so I did a little google searching on him. I found some old posts on some other pipe forums that said he worked out of PA and was on ebay under the name "Brax17". An ebay search for a member with that name turned up no results.
I did find what appears to be his youtube page here :https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCxes9U5fh4pL17xcYRc_4rw
But it looks like he hasn't posted any videos in several years.
Does anyone know if he's still making pipes? If so, do I just have to wait for something to show up on ebay or is there somewhere online that carries new pipes of his?
Thanks.
Here's a pic of my A. Machelli poker
After a couple weeks of breaking the pipe in, it became a regular in my rotation and eventually became one of my favorite pipes.
I've been trying to keep an eye out on ebay for more of his stuff but haven't seen anything, so I did a little google searching on him. I found some old posts on some other pipe forums that said he worked out of PA and was on ebay under the name "Brax17". An ebay search for a member with that name turned up no results.
I did find what appears to be his youtube page here :https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCxes9U5fh4pL17xcYRc_4rw
But it looks like he hasn't posted any videos in several years.
Does anyone know if he's still making pipes? If so, do I just have to wait for something to show up on ebay or is there somewhere online that carries new pipes of his?
Thanks.
Here's a pic of my A. Machelli poker