1 Grabow for 1 Year (8/2/19)

[didimauw]

Almost 500!

Do your own rules prohibit reaming?

Haha nope, I have reamed it a few times. Pics are in this thread somewhere. If I didn't ream it yet, it would be so full I couldn't smoke it. I just enjoy a good cake, and ugly pipe.

 

[ophiuchus]

Wow! The Grabow is starting to look like a couple of mine! They must be related.

(Took mine a lot longer to get there. )

 

[didimauw]

Wow! The Grabow is starting to look like a couple of mine! They must be related.

(Took mine a lot longer to get there. )

Dedication my friend. Dedication.

Some may call it insanity.

 

[didimauw]

Bowl 488, was time to ream again. Followed by a warm water flush.

 

[jaytex1969]

Looking good, Didi.

If you time it well, you can have bowl 500 on New Year's Day.

 

[verporchting]

Pipe is holding up quite well it seems. How’s the stem & button doing?

 

[didimauw]

No holes all the way through in the stem yet! But I've had to adjust the way I clench, to make it more comfortable. The divots are huge.

 

[didimauw]

I am moving all of my pipe pictures off of my phone, onto a flash drive. In the process of doing so, I was reminiscing about my corn cobs. I miss them terribly. That's the first thing in smoking when this pipe can't take it anymore.

All the more reason to really give it hell....

 

[mso489]

Your dedication is inspiring. The pipe's dedication is inspiring!

 

[didimauw]

Your dedication is inspiring. The pipe's dedication is inspiring!

Just an ode to the codgers of the good old days. Memoirs of a simpler time.

 

[verporchting]

Keep it going!! Merry Christmas and a happy new Grabow next year. Or a cob. Or that meerschaum that Weezel is gonna gift you, lol.

Face it, you’re never going to smoke your briars again. You’ve been inducted into the Codger Hall of Fame - involuntarily, ?

 

[didimauw]

Keep it going!! Merry Christmas and a happy new Grabow next year. Or a cob. Or that meerschaum that Weezel is gonna gift you, lol.

Face it, you’re never going to smoke your briars again. You’ve been inducted into the Codger Hall of Fame - involuntarily, ?

And happy holidays to you and everyone else wierd enough to follow along!

I just enjoy seeing the pipe get abused!

 

[Mr.Mike]

Gotta love grabows. Fine smoking pipes

 

[augiebd]

So close to 500, in only 5 months, a good pace and a fair test. One single pipe should only be put through so much!

 

[mikey517]

Merry Christmas Didi.

Because of this thread, I bought my first Grabow - a Royalton Rustic. My second Grabow - a Riviera quarter bent is now my favorite pipe. I smoke it just about everyday.

 

[didimauw]

Merry Christmas Didi.

Because of this thread, I bought my first Grabow - a Royalton Rustic. My second Grabow - a Riviera quarter bent is now my favorite pipe. I smoke it just about everyday.

Merry Christmas Mikey! Glad I could be an influence on ya! The grabows are definitely worth their weight I guess! I didn't expect it to take this much abuse so quickly!

I had a smaller Grabow that cracked on the shank, but at the time I was smoking ten or more bowls back to back, while driving almost every day.

 

[weezell]

Keep it going!! Merry Christmas and a happy new Grabow next year. Or a cob. Or that meerschaum that Weezel is gonna gift you, lol.

He just needs to let me know when he's getting close...

 

[didimauw]

Oh no no no. No gifts please. Lol like I said, my cob is going to get a lot of my time after this.

 

[Shawnboy]

Bowl 488, was time to ream again. Followed by a warm water flush.

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The picture looking down into the chamber almost looks like the bowl has a veneer, am I missing something?

 

[weezell]

Oh no no no. No gifts please. Lol like I said, my cob is going to get a lot of my time after this.

I smoke Meers most of the time,But my MM Cobs are next in the line up! I love my MM Cobs to Brother...( Note the rack)