I have been meaning to write a review of my SmokingDragon cob for a month now.
A lot of life has intervened in between the time I received the pipe from (Scott)The Smoking Dragon until now.
Just one quick family thing and I’ll move on to the review: My daughter, who lives in Boulder, Colo., lost her house and possessions in the flood.
We have been dealing with that disaster for the past couple of weeks. It is worse than you can imagine.
Now for the review of my SmokingDragon Black Widow and accompanying tamper (with a magnetic head!)
It is a black and tan 5th Avenue shape with Black Widow color with just a gorgeous maroon stem.
First, you need to know that I love this pipe! After receiving it about mid-August, I took it to the beach with me for a week (this is before the waters washed away everything in Boulder, of course).
I sat with my Dragon Cob, read, smoked, read and smoked. Sat on the deck, looked up at the waves a bit, then smoked and read more.
I tossed everything I could at the cob: no rest in between smokes; aeros; Vapers; Virginias, red Virginias; English blends of various amounts of Latakia; Burleys; Vaburs; Virginias with Orientals and some stuff I made up that is (ugh! No good).
The Tennessee Black Widow Dragon Cob handled all of that with such style and grace. I am still amazed.
No, really. This is one of the best pipes that I own. It smokes and smokes and keeps on smoking.
And, oh, yes, no break-in. Right from the get-go, the Tennessee Black Widow (I call it my Roth-style Tennessee Black Widow because I first read his review of Scott’s SmokingDragon cobs), was virtually ready for action.
I can’t say enough about this pipe. If you love cobs, and I do, you need to check out the SmokingDragon on this Forum and look into his cob pipes. They are reasonable ($55 plus $5 shipping!)
They are one of a kind, smoke like no other and can handle anything you toss at them.
I highly recommend the SmokingDragon cobs.
They are very special.