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A New Lease on... Pipe Smoking?
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my first pipe was a meer
how do cobs compare to meers
how do cobs compare to meers
That's because the bumpkin removed the band!! ?
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Only got the one Meerschaum, and a handful of cobs. I've not noticed the cornpop taste some complain about, but it may also be that I smoked those blends first in a cob and assumed the taste was part of the blend's profile. They are similar in that you don't build cake in either of them, if you're into that gross cakey thing.
Cobs are a pain in the ass to clean well, there's no end to the gunk coming out of them even after they look clean:
Supposedly, both smoke cooler than anything else, and cobs are s'posed to smoke as cool as Meerschaum, hence MM got its name.
Oh, and cobs can take a lot of abuse: more than briar and way more than Meerschaum; which is why they appeal to many—they're "beater" pipes. Try dropping a sepiolite pipe and you'll develop a whole new sailor vocabulary you didn't think you were capable of.
You know, I really should fix that—reference to the game's title be damned.
Of course, photoshopping a Vauen churchwarden into a square/circular frame is nigh impossible to do well.
Same absorbency, both lightweight.
I was always under the impression that leaving the band on was boorish. Removal is a courtesy.That's because the bumpkin removed the band!! ?
Not the same, but I like both. I think meerschaum is easier to keep clean, though I think the cobs smoke slightly drier. If you’re a slow smoker, you probably won’t notice enough of a difference there to matter though. To me, both will mute the flavors of Latakia quite a bit until they soak up some tar. More so than a new briar. Once they get some tar in them, it’s all good. What I like about meerschaum is that they’re pretty hard to ghost. I can smoke Lakelands in mine, and as long as I rinse it out afterwards, there’s no lingering rose-geranium. It’s probably second only to clays as far as having a “pristine” smoke.
Why do you want to get rid of what you now have? What are you looking for in the new pipes you buy specifically? Chances are, you may not get much out of what you have. If you really feel like you need new pipes, keep what you have and buy a couple of new ones as a compromise. You may be unhappy or feel incomplete in other areas of your life and are transferring that to your pipes. Getting new pipes won't solve the root cause issue.
It depends on the locale. I think that in Europe it's part of the cigar smoking etiquette to remove it, so as not to top it the knob, whereas on this side of the pond it's considered, well, bumpkinish to remove it. Traditions by regions....
Works for all of them.
you may be right - I don't know - it's definitely psychological at the root
I am indeed thinking that a 'trade-in' would be a step down from all my well smoked broken in older pipes
I was thinking of buying a new meer and a new briar for starts - or like I said some cobs - but at this point I'm still lost - from a practicality standpoint I already have all the pipes I need
Yeah, I hit a saturation point where I started getting rid of pipes.
FWIW, cobs aren't expensive. Get yourself a trio and try them out. Meerschaummarket should have Meerschaeume under $100 and you could order a brand new one too. See if that helps you.
you know what it is - you can all play my shrink-
when I began smoking a pipe after 10 years of cigars and a stint in camel/winston cigarettes
I bought a meer and it was new from P&C and it was MINE and I loved the damn thing- that opened the door to some meer lined briars and briars
some were estates and unsmoked and some were smoked and refurbished
But as the years went on I became set in the ways of pipe smoking becoming nothing special(granted I still treasure the flavor the pipe gives over cigars personally) but it just became smoking just like cigars was smoking
I never thought much into it and never bought a pipe over $75 - just factory made premium quality estates
I'd personally love to be the guy with the $400-1000 well maintained pipes that were bought new - especially since lately I've had personal issues - health(docs say I'm fine) etc...(non financial)
when I began smoking a pipe after 10 years of cigars and a stint in camel/winston cigarettes
I bought a meer and it was new from P&C and it was MINE and I loved the damn thing- that opened the door to some meer lined briars and briars
some were estates and unsmoked and some were smoked and refurbished
But as the years went on I became set in the ways of pipe smoking becoming nothing special(granted I still treasure the flavor the pipe gives over cigars personally) but it just became smoking just like cigars was smoking
I never thought much into it and never bought a pipe over $75 - just factory made premium quality estates
I'd personally love to be the guy with the $400-1000 well maintained pipes that were bought new - especially since lately I've had personal issues - health(docs say I'm fine) etc...(non financial)
