Bootmaker
Michael Anthony
Michael Anthony Carnacchi, who works under the name Michael Anthony, is a Detroit native who rode west on a Harley in 1987 and learned bootmaking from retired Texas bootmaker Jack Reed of Burnet. He runs a one-man shop on North Main Street in Sebastopol, California, making every part of each boot himself, stitching included, one pair at a time. Robb Report named him among its "Best of the Best" in 2002.
Related: Jack Reed
History
Michael Anthony Carnacchi is a bootmaker, working under the name Michael Anthony, in Sebastopol, California. His own website says he is a Detroit native who came west on a Harley-Davidson in 1987 and learned bootmaking from Jack Reed of Burnet, Texas; he runs a one-man shop where he makes an entire boot, including the stitching, one pair at a time. A Robb Report note reprinted on his site (1 June 2002) places the shop on North Main Street in Sebastopol under the name Apple Cobbler.
Illume (15 October 2018) reports that a copy of Beard’s The Cowboy Boot Book sent him to Reed’s one-man shop in Burnet; Reed at first refused to teach him, but later taught him fit, pattern-making, and boot building on visits that often coincided with the Boot and Saddlemaker Round Up in Brownwood.
Known for
One-man shop; trained under Jack Reed of Burnet, Texas