A MM Riverboat Gambler pipe is $12.99. How much could a no-name possibly save you?
Any Experience with Cheap, No-name Cobs?
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I bought my first MM for 65 cents along with a 25 foil package of Half and Half in Nellie’s pool hall in early 1972, when I was 13 or 14 years old.
That 65 cent pipe is $5 today and the Half and Half is $3.50 in the same building, now an South Indian owned booze and smoke shop.
How cheap do want to buy the best cob pipe for, anyway?
None are free.
That 65 cent pipe is $5 today and the Half and Half is $3.50 in the same building, now an South Indian owned booze and smoke shop.
How cheap do want to buy the best cob pipe for, anyway?
None are free.
Truth be told, I think the OP thought he was getting a MM cob as it was hanging on an MM display.
He could ask for a refund because that's false advertising
On the other hand, he could get one of his kids to paint it, then list on EBay for $300 as a "genuinely rare, mint-y, one-off hand-finished item".
He could ask for a refund because that's false advertising
On the other hand, he could get one of his kids to paint it, then list on EBay for $300 as a "genuinely rare, mint-y, one-off hand-finished item".
You are correct. The pipe was hanging on a MM display about 10 feet behind a counter. It wasn't worth me driving 20 minutes to return it.Truth be told, I think the OP thought he was getting a MM cob as it was hanging on an MM display.
He could ask for a refund because that's false advertising
On the other hand, he could get one of his kids to paint it, then list on EBay for $300 as a "genuinely rare, mint-y, one-off hand-finished item".
I had a cheap no name cob from china, was the first pipe I ever bought when I started. It smoked fine until I poked through the bottom cleaning it out one day. Oh well.
looks to me like just an untreated cob. Kind of reminds me that you can make your own cob out of well cob and use it as a temporary pipe. Smokes o.k. tastes a little weird but it works. That cob looks like the same thing to me.
I would just never visit a shop pulling this kind of chicanery again.
Looking at these pictures, I might actually like how this cob is joined with the shank vs MM.
I have 2 of them. I don’t smoke daily but use them for something I am afraid will ghost a pipe. They are good enough to trial a tobacco.
I don't plan on it. Plus the only pipe tobacco that they sold was Super Value.
Precisely.
(And I feel like I lose a lot of quality leaf to the gaps in between all that mechanism at the bottom of the bowl.)
My father in law had one of these. about 1/3rd of the bowl was below the shank. The way MM does it sure does taste bad at the end of the first few smokes, but you don't have 6oz of dottle for every pound of tobacco you smoke. I filled his with pipe mud, it took a lot and added noticeable weight. Otherwise it smoked ok. IMO there's no reason to buy a cob that's any cheaper than an MM, but if you already got it, mud it and smoke it until it doesn't.
Great idea, but: Isn't that more ETSY than eBay?Truth be told, I think the OP thought he was getting a MM cob as it was hanging on an MM display.
He could ask for a refund because that's false advertising
On the other hand, he could get one of his kids to paint it, then list on EBay for $300 as a "genuinely rare, mint-y, one-off hand-finished item".
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I prefer the MM Gentleman also. I smoke those 80% of the time. Only $18 or so.