leaving the filter in a corncob pipe?

[Arizona]

After the first smoke or two that filter is just a gross sponge full of tars and gunk from the previous smokes.

You don't need it, just toss the filter and smoke the cob without it. Thats how all my cobs are and it's no problem at all.

[SUOrangeGuy]

Raising the dead with this post. I can hardly remember asking the question the first time.

[billhud]

Originally Posted by Dog_Soldier

I always throw 'em out. Though I almost always use screens in my cobs. i don't like pulling bits of gunk into my mouth when enjoying a bowl.

I smoke alot of Penzance which is a flake and smoke cobs mostly and don't have a problem with bits of gunk. Perhaps it's in the pack?

[Dog_Soldier]

Originally Posted by billhud

I smoke alot of Penzance which is a flake and smoke cobs mostly and don't have a problem with bits of gunk. Perhaps it's in the pack?

It could be my packing, but I mostly get bits in the stem from C&D Brigadier and sometimes Frog Morton. Brigadier has alot of cut up little bits in it and the Frog has some smallish chunks in it too. I'm still new at pipe smoking so it could be me.