corncob pipe?

[12stones]

Originally Posted by 12stones

No cob for me yet but I plan on pickin' one up in the near future.

Just picked up my first cob. I happened to be in a CVS and found myself looking at 3 different pipes behind the counter. They carried two different Dr. Grabows and a Missouri Meerschaum cob. I grabbed a cob in sheer delight and can't wait to get home tonight to smoke it.

[atvjgjg]

i love my cobs i have about 5 of them right now there the only kind of pipe i'll buy right now

[Hendu3270]

I have a cob as part of my collection. I love it. I plan on taking one with me everytime I'm in the marsh duck hunting this next year.

[DJO]

I have yet to pick up my first cob. I'm feeling like I'm missing out.

[dmkerr]

Originally Posted by DJO

I have yet to pick up my first cob. I'm feeling like I'm missing out.

Hard to say. I have one and it's decent but not anywhere close to my briars and meerschaums in terms of my smoking pleasure. Great way to get a good pipe rotation, though. I'd recommend everyone try one. I use mine strictly for balkan blends and it does a competent job for when I'm gardening or otherwise multi-tasking outdoors. But there are folks who use them as their primary smoking instrument, so you should try one to see where it fits in your life.

[bgwvdave]

Sounds like a good cheap way to try pipe tobaccos. Shit howdy I already have a straw hat and red bandana, just need to get me one of them redneck pipes.

[MarkC]

I have a couple, and they get regular use, if not respect. You know how it is; it's just a cheap corncob...treat it like junk. Yet they go on and on and on...

I wish that when I jumped back into pipes I had just bought seven or eight corncobs rather than some of the cheap briars I picked up. A couple of the cheap briars worked out okay, but the rest were junk. I've never had a corncob that didn't smoke at least acceptably.

[DJO]

Well, I took the plunge and ordered myself a cob from 4noggins. Guess that makes me part of the cob club.

[dmkerr]

Originally Posted by MarkC

I wish that when I jumped back into pipes I had just bought seven or eight corncobs rather than some of the cheap briars I picked up. A couple of the cheap briars worked out okay, but the rest were junk. I've never had a corncob that didn't smoke at least acceptably.

This is an excellent point. A cheap corncob often does smoke better than a cheap briar. If the briar doesn't have all the sap sucked out of it prior to the final product, it is liable to impart its own foul taste to the tobacco. At its pricepoint, a cob is the better bet.

[mojo]

Like some people I picked up briar pipes first before getting a cob pipe. Since I smoke in an opened garage, some of the briar pipes will smoke too hot because of the wind. With a cob pipe, the wind is no longer a factor. I can enjoy the smoke & just worry about keeping the tobacco lit. If the cob pipe gets too hot, who cares unlike a briar pipe that I don't want to ruin. Finished a bowl of GH Happy Bogie & a bowl of Black twist Sliced in my cob.

[Requiem]

I want to get 5 corncobs, while visiting the US.
2 or 3 will be for myself, and the rest to offer, on a effort to recruite some friends to the hobby...

I see some Missouri Meerschaums have a hardwood fitted bottom... are those the best?
However, I am not sure which models have that hardwood bottom. Great Danes, Diplomats are listed as having them... the others I don't know.

[Mr.Lordi]

I love cobs, give you one of the best smokes ever. Only thing that sucks is they cost 5 bucks for what you could, essentially, make yourself.

I did find a bunch of dollar cobs once, but they came from China and I didn't want lead poisoning...not that EVERYTHING from there has lead in it, but it did cross my mind. lol

Oh yeah, also, the bowls are too small and it seems right when Im finally getting into the groove, the smoke is done. Not even all the way to the bottom either, it just stops. lol

[DSturg369]

I wind myself smoking a MM cob and PA more often than any other combo in my collection. They just seem to "click" together so well I figure "Why fight a good thing?"

As for pic, my avatar and profile pic tell it all.