Biggest cob bowl?

[cityslicker]

Looking for a corn cob pipe that has a large bowl I currently smoke an Eaton and a Missouri Pride. The Eaton bowl is pretty small and a smoke only last me about 15 minutes or so, the pride is a little better with a good tamp i can smoke it for about 30+ minutes. Im asking if anybody has experience with a wide variety of the MM brand pipes and can point me towards their pipes with a bigger bowl?

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[Jwebb90]

I would guess it to be their Freehand if it is still available.

 

[Briar Lee]

Looking for a corn cob pipe that has a large bowl I currently smoke an Eaton and a Missouri Pride. The Eaton bowl is pretty small and a smoke only last me about 15 minutes or so, the pride is a little better with a good tamp i can smoke it for about 30+ minutes. Im asking if anybody has experience with a wide variety of the MM brand pipes and can point me towards their pipes with a bigger bowl?

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Technically the Freehands have the biggest bowls, followed by the MacAurthur. But you look as outrageous as Dugout Doug landing on the beach smoking one.

Here’s what you want. I have several of these.



Nearly the same bowl size as a General but not as tall.

 

[dottlejockey]

This is the main reason i don't smoke many cobs. I have 2, this is the largest i've found so far...

MM Freehand, which -- consequentially -- is the one i smoke most often of the 2.

 

[Sig]

The Diplomat 5th Avenue is a decent size. Its my preferred MM.

 

[upnorth1]

MM Freehand is their largest bowl. It’s a pretty good looking pipe too.

 

[Waning Embers]

The MacArthur is bigger than the freehand.

 

[upnorth1]

Really? I guess I was fooled by the narrow chamber. The one I have is so narrow I can’t get my finger into it. I’ve never bothered smoking it. My Freehand seems more manageable from a packing/ tamping perspective.

 

[Briar Lee]

The MacArthur is bigger than the freehand.

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It’s taller. And some Macs have a deep bowl, others the stem hits in the middle.

The Freehand is what the name implies.

There’s a big chute of cobs at MM and they get sorted as to size. Overwhelmingly they are Washington and Legend size.

Then there’s bigger ones that get made (mostly with machines) into Macs, Generals, Gentlemen and Diplomats.

Freehands are mutants.

Those super size cobs get turned by hand. That’s why they are about double the cost of a Mac.

Close to thirty years ago they let me tour the production area and I watched an old man about my age now turn me a Freehand.

If they could, they’d make all big ones.

By the way, you want a double plastered cob pipe with a hardwood dowel.

They’s the bestest gooderns.

 

[dozicusmaximus]

MacArthur Classic is humongous. Freehand is large and still manageable.

 

[Waning Embers]

Really? I guess I was fooled by the narrow chamber. The one I have is so narrow I can’t get my finger into it. I’ve never bothered smoking it. My Freehand seems more manageable from a packing/ tamping perspective.

Okay, I was just going by chamber dimensions. The Freehand is .87" × 2.75" and the MacArthur is .75" × 3.25" but the freehand's volume is roughly 1.63 cubic inches while the MacArthur is 1.44 cubic inches.

 

[Waning Embers]

Those super size cobs get turned by hand. That’s why they are about double the cost of a Mac.

Funny how times change. Ten years ago the Freehand and the Cobbit Wizard were $19. The top dollar cob that year was the reverse calabash at $50.

 

[FLDRD]

Cobbit Wizard
.9" x 2.8" deep

 

[Waning Embers]

Cobbit Wizard
.9" x 2.8" deep

From MM and SPC

 

[Sobrbiker]

Early seventies Freehand that was my dad’s, .83x.210 (at the lowest, broken post of rim), from when they still used cob shanks and vulcanite stems.
And it doesn’t look ridiculous…

 

[Richmond B. Funkenhouser]

Keeping the cake cut back helps a lot.

 

[Epip Oc'Cabot]

Hmmm…. referencing the GMO thread that was going on yesterday…… now THAT is what GMO damn well SHOULD be used for….. to make a giant corncob so we have have a bigger Missouri Meerschaum pipe!

 

[Briar Lee]

Early seventies Freehand that was my dad’s, .83x.210 (at the lowest, broken post of rim), from when they still used cob shanks and vulcanite stems.
And it doesn’t look ridiculous…
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My almost thirty year old Freehand is a lot larger than my new one, and it has the rough top like your Dad’s, which also is crumbling.

When they made my pipe MM produced over a million pipes a year, Today it’s still substantial but much less.

My father row cropped 280 acres to feed 25 head of dairy cows, and Missouri Meerschaum plants 150 acres of special hybrid corn to make 100% of the world’s supply of really top quality cob pipes.

From Cobs to Pipes - CornCobPipe.com - https://corncobpipe.com/from-cobs-to-pipes/

Thirty years ago every worker in the factory made minimum wage, period.

Today I-44 modernization means really good jobs with benefits are a half hour to an hour’s drive away to St Louis. The farmland around Washington is over $10,000 an acre.

Washington has been gentrified. It looks like a storybook tourist destination instead of a gritty farming based river town now.

Their pipes are a bargain.

Buy their best, while you still can.

 

[Briar Lee]

Hmmm…. referencing the GMO thread that was going on yesterday…… now THAT is what GMO damn well SHOULD be used for….. to make a giant corncob so we have have a bigger Missouri Meerschaum pipe!

My father raised GMO corn, but not like today’s.

I loved to go to the fields with my Daddy.

Scots Ozark culture was maternal. My Daddy was the boss of the fields and barn and church but Mama ruled the children and the home and with an iron fist. I was on loan to my Daddy when I was out in the fields and we both knew it.

To raise and harvest corn like MM does and my father did, required first plowing the fields and discing them, then making a seed bed with a harrow.

Daddy planted Funk’s G Hybrid, he had to buy from the Farmer’s Exchange. I knew not to eat it, and the seed sacks had skull and crossbones warnings because it was coated in rat poison.

But the old time corn planters also had a hopper for phosphate fertilizer. My father’s was so old it had a seat on it where his father pulled it with draft horses.

Daddy would make big piles of seed and fertilizer bags and then go make a round on a forty acre field, which is a quarter mile square.

While he was on a round, I started throwing up fertilizer from broken sacks in the air, and playing in the dust. I was about four, and old enough to know better.

All of a sudden I couldn’t breathe.

I waved at Daddy across the field and he was watching the rows.

I knew I was going to die, and when I did Mama would kill my Daddy over it.

Daddy did come around, saw my distress, took me to Mama who held me while Daddy drove 90 miles an hour to Humansville to Dr Robinson and by the time I got there I was just fine, nothing wrong at all.

Dr Robinson went with us across the street to the Shady Noon Cafe where I had a good cheeseburger and some ice cream.

Hybrid (GMO) corn then might make forty bushels an acre, each bushel worth as much as two dollars ($20 in our money).

Today corn is $4 a bushel (40 cents in 1962 money) and they plant it with half million dollar tractors and harvest it with million dollar combines.

But 200 bushels an acre is almost a crop failure now.

Missouri Meerschaum plants 1940s hybrid corn using antique harvesters and antique sellers.

You or anybody else could make a cob pipe, but only MM has that hybrid corn.

 

[JOHN72]

The MM General would be a good choice. For my taste, the Missouri Meerschaum: The General Bent (6mm) is more than enough. I don't like smoking in larger bowls, be they conical or other such large shapes, be it corn, briar, seafoam, etc. I don't want bigger than this size, 50.90mm burner space. I want an overall equilibrium.