Mastro Grandolfo

[peckinpahhombre]

Curious to know if anyone has tried one of these pipes or if you know anything about them?
http://www.ebay.com/sch/alex.grandolfo/m.html?_nkw=&_armrs=1&_from=&_ipg=&_trksid=p3686

 

[lildutchboy]

I saw his auctions too and got interested. A lot of his pipes seem to have super thick walls. Like he only owns a 0.79in drill bit for the chambers, but likes making massive pipes. quality looks good though.

 

[peckinpahhombre]

That seems to be fairly common with some of the italian makers. Moretti is the same. Great pipes, but he insists on a fairly narrow chamber. I know old cajun drilled out one or more of his morettis.

 

[tbradsim1]

Yes I had Floyd drill out a large Canadian Moretti, reason being I had a bent Moretti that had a larger chamber that was unusal for him and it smokes very well, the Canadian was an alright smoke, but it was like a Greyhound Bus with only 2 passengers , no payload, bowl was 1/2 inch I had Floyd drill it to 1 inch, the smokeing difference was amazing, kind of like in the carburetor days when you put bigger jets for more power, Moretti is a master of pipe makeing, but he ain"t perfect. The old cajun