I fired up my pipe with a match before leaving for my weekly 70 mile drive to the nearby city to visit kinfolks.
Out on the highway, I realized, to my horror, that I had left my constant traveling companion (a Corona Pipe Magie) on the side table! Oh no! No matches in the car. What will I do when I need to relight? (The Corona's 90-degree flame being perfect for one-hand relights while driving).
But I was lucky with my pipe choice of the day: an '80s vintage Missouri Meerschaum bent cob (with the old, wide, quality plastic mouthpiece they no longer use).
I nursed the pipe tenderly, using every trick I know to keep it lit. And it DID stay lit! I smoked it pleasurably, all the way to the bottom! I really doubt if any of my briars would have come thru for me like that!
Not only do M-M cobs usually require only a single initial light, their draft makes for many fewer relights!
God bless Missouri Meerschaum!
Out on the highway, I realized, to my horror, that I had left my constant traveling companion (a Corona Pipe Magie) on the side table! Oh no! No matches in the car. What will I do when I need to relight? (The Corona's 90-degree flame being perfect for one-hand relights while driving).
But I was lucky with my pipe choice of the day: an '80s vintage Missouri Meerschaum bent cob (with the old, wide, quality plastic mouthpiece they no longer use).
I nursed the pipe tenderly, using every trick I know to keep it lit. And it DID stay lit! I smoked it pleasurably, all the way to the bottom! I really doubt if any of my briars would have come thru for me like that!
Not only do M-M cobs usually require only a single initial light, their draft makes for many fewer relights!
God bless Missouri Meerschaum!
