Am I A Shmuck For Preferring Corn Cobs?

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Chasing Embers

Captain of the Black Frigate
Nov 12, 2014
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Cobs generally have a much better draw, and move not more air than than your garden variety briar, thereby giving you a flavorful smoke.Try briar pipes by Briar works / RC Sands.They are affordable, and have larger diameter drillings than a lot briars.
A bit more absorbent than briar too.?
 
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Epip Oc'Cabot

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Cobs generally have a much better draw, and move not more air than than your garden variety briar, thereby giving you a flavorful smoke.Try briar pipes by Briar works / RC Sands.They are affordable, and have larger diameter drillings than a lot briars.
I DO very much agree with you about the easier/bigger draw of the typical cob compared to a briar. That bigger draw does make them nice (IMO) especially as a first pipe upon awakening for the day. ?
 

hawky454

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Feb 11, 2016
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Cobs generally have a much better draw, and move not more air than than your garden variety briar, thereby giving you a flavorful smoke.Try briar pipes by Briar works / RC Sands.They are affordable, and have larger diameter drillings than a lot briars.
Or you can open your briar pipes up if you like a more open draw. It’s really not that difficult with a bit of practice. I’d also add Neerup to that list, his pipes are wide open! They have a great draw!
 
Hah! I just finally looked at your current image more closely.... I had assumed (when it was smaller in size) that you were clenching a corncob just from its “look”. I see that it isn’t a cob. If you would, tell us more about that pipe.... it is interesting.

Your prior image (the one that was sort of a “cowboy” image with brim of your hat over your eyes while lounging..... that pipe I knew was a briar.
In this pic, the pipe is a Growley bamboo poker... love it. I can’t remember the last avatar. My first was me lighting a Nording in the dark.

I do have a few corncobs,and I have my reasons for not liking them. But, I don’t really disparage anyone for enjoying them... just jokingly.

A few years ago, we had a handful of “militant” corncob smokers who would always Jump on threads disparaging anyone who enjoyed the nicer more expensive pipes. And, even though they’d curb stomp me for standing up for briarmen, I took it for the team. It was just friendly fire, but won me to rep as a cob hater, which wasn’t the case. If you ever drive up on me on the tractor, you just might... might... catch me smoking Carter Hall in a cob. But, I’d probably beat you into never telling anyone, ha ha!
 

Wellington

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I have a couple cobs and I love them, one of them, without knowing at first, has pretty well only had Half & Half smoked in it, and a little W.Ø Larson, so it seems now I get a lot of good flavour out of H&H when using that one. Their just great pipes, smoke great, are cheap and very low maintenence. Mine get as much use as my briars probably.
 

Chasing Embers

Captain of the Black Frigate
Nov 12, 2014
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The Limited Edition Reversed Calabash, right?
Yep.?

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Dec 6, 2019
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I have a small rotation of pipes, around 60. I am not ashamed to tell you that 25 are cobs. I love my cobs and treat them as I do my briars. I reach for my cobs more often and for me I enjoy Virginia forward blends in them. If you enjoy them, smoke them. I will add that I perfer English in a briar.

I've said it before.. and I'll say it again. Something feels wrong about an english blend in a cob.. I don't have a reason, but theres a little voice in our heads we should be listening to.