Cob Question

[kcghost]

No problem. Smoke a few more bowls before you hit the panic button.

 

[Eye-level]

The corn cob pipe is American ingenuity at its finest! :D

 

[Chasing Embers]

The corn cob pipe is American ingenuity at its finest! :D

The modern design with the plaster of Paris coating was Dutch.

 

[Eye-level]

The modern design with the plaster of Paris coating was Dutch.

MM was founded by a Dutch immigrant to Washington Missouri. The Tibbes. American can do ingenuity!

 

[Chasing Embers]

MM was founded by a Dutch immigrant to Washington Missouri. The Wittes. American can do ingenuity!

After copying a farmer's design on a lathe, and it was Henry Tibbe.

 

[Sweet Home Alabama]

I’ve posted this pic a couple times tonight. But I’ve got a question for you.

I have 3 cobs now. And each of the other two smoked/tasted great the very first time. Like how I expect a con to be.

Well, this new MM Elf Cobbit tastes like a pipe that needs breaking in.

Anyone else ever experienced this with a cob before? First time for me. Thought the cobs were supposed to be good to go from the get go.
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Nice big screen!!! Go Cats!!

 

[CoffeeAndBourbon]

I always thought it'd be cool if MM made a cob pipe with the kernels intact, and that plaster of Paris smeared on between the kernels, then wiped off, just enough to show the golden grain........... it would make for a heavy, chunky, pipe....... but people like custombilts..... right?

Yeah, use the blood red corn. That would make an awesome looking pipe!

 

[Sweet Home Alabama]

When my grandfather and I would make cob pipes, we sanded the exterior of the cob. We used cane for the stem.

 

[Simmerdown☕️]

I usually plow through 3-4 bowls and it’s autopilot form there. To this day, I’ve not had an MM disappoint me except for the spool shaped cobs…not my thing. ?️

 

[Morrison Jeremiah]

After 100 smokes a cob still tastes like a cob.
Baffled as to why anyone would want that.
I held out out for 100 smokes from some weird sense of duty, to see if you guys you were right.
But you ain't, so there ?

 

[Chasing Embers]

After 100 smokes a cob still tastes like a cob.
Baffled as to why anyone would want that.
I held out out for 100 smokes from some weird sense of duty, to see if you guys you were right.
But you ain't, so there ?

I probably said the same thing thirty years ago, but back then I didn't know that Dunill made badly drilled flower pots instead of pipes.

 

[Sweet Home Alabama]

I have been unable to fault my MM cobs. They are affordable, provide a good smoke, and don't look like you stole a Middle Eastern artifact hanging outside your mouth. To each their own of course. Plus, you still retain resources for a nice micro brew.

 

[mso489]

I retrofit about four of my MM cob pipes with Forever stems under the old Forever management, and since then, when I've bought cobs, I've bought the special edition ones with acrylic stems. I chew through the soft plastic stems, so this works for me, since I haven't burnt out or otherwise lost a cob yet, and some of them are more than a decade old. I've decided they are all "permanent party," as they used to say of the crew of a Navy ship.

 

[dctune]

I probably said the same thing thirty years ago, but back then I didn't know that Dunill made badly drilled flower pots instead of pipes.

You’re not a real pipe smoker these days until you own a pair of Dunhill skinny jeans. Everybody knows this.

 

[dctune]

Nice big screen!!! Go Cats!!

I have two girls, so the big screen is mainly for princess movies. ? As soon as the postgame started, they were all like, “Daddy, can we watch something else now? PLEEEEEZZZUH!”

But yes. Go cats! We handled business last night.

IIRC, you said your son played baseball at UK, right?

 

[Duck]

I always thought it'd be cool if MM made a cob pipe with the kernels intact, and that plaster of Paris smeared on between the kernels, then wiped off, just enough to show the golden grain........... it would make for a heavy, chunky, pipe....... but people like custombilts..... right?

That's how popcorn was discovered.

 

[JOHN72]

It is a matter of taste, but I think that a collection of cobs and briar pipes is not a bad option. A varied rotation of both is what I would definitely have. They are cheap and good smokers. And that's a good advantage in this day and age. When I finish building my damn cellar, I will start buying the first briar pipes. I think I have already commented on this on another occasion............???

 

[JOHN72]

After 100 smokes a cob still tastes like a cob.
Baffled as to why anyone would want that.
I held out out for 100 smokes from some weird sense of duty, to see if you guys you were right.
But you ain't, so there ?

I agree. They have an aftertaste bitter, like the brazier of coal that my grandmother used to put under the table stretcher.

 

[Chasing Embers]

You’re not a real pipe smoker these days until you own a pair of Dunhill skinny jeans. Everybody knows this.

My 26 inch waist turns skinny jeans into baggy pants.

 

[Gavrin]

I retrofit about four of my MM cob pipes with Forever stems under the old Forever management, and since then, when I've bought cobs, I've bought the special edition ones with acrylic stems. I chew through the soft plastic stems, so this works for me, since I haven't burnt out or otherwise lost a cob yet, and some of them are more than a decade old. I've decided they are all "permanent party," as they used to say of the crew of a Navy ship.

would you recommend Forever stems now? Or since under “new- management” no? I was looking at them to make a stem for a cob I have.