Nice, I must have missed where someone told you to do that, but that is ingenious. How did you manage to drill the pins to make them line up straight on both sides?
And, I know he was joking, but to set the record straight, I am not a cob hatter or basher. I merely find it humorous that the pro cob gang will put down someone showing off a nice pipe to mention that they could have saved money on a cob. That doesn't seem to happen much any more. So, all of those curb stompings weren't in vain.