I was told by multiple ppl on YouTube to start out with a MM cob, but my head is full of concrete and decided to buy a churchwarden which turned out to be a turd,the brand name was Gstar,after that i was still persistent and continued to buy crappy pipes and bought a cheap China knock-off of a corn cob pipe.......but to tell you the truth the cob knock-off is not that bad if your impatient like me, I've smoked Newports,cheap cigars, high end cigars,Half & Half, etc in the same bowl.....the good news is i orded some cobs from aristocob and smoking pipes, i got some hardwood cobs,polished cobs and a Old Dominion L.King, and i got some bca baccy and bl/wb, smoking a pipe really calms you down, as I'm learning to slow down my puffing I've developed a rythum and also learned to be patient in other faucets of my life. I'm definitely interested in this forum and can't wait to share my future experiences and learn from the anicents(so to speak).Hope to hear from you my pipe bretheran.☺