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peteguy

Lifer
Jan 19, 2012
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i assume this is not the popular corndog shape or is it? Any idea on when this shape was made?

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Chasing Embers

Captain of the Black Frigate
Nov 12, 2014
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That's the "Acorn " shape and can now only be found on the MM Cobbit Series Shire pipes.
Prior to the cobbits, that was their Great Dane egg.

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mso489

Lifer
Feb 21, 2013
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I like churchwardens and other long stems, but I think I like the cob acorn bowl better with the shorter stem. It sets off the interesting shape better, to me. I'm ambivalent about theme pipes. I somewhat feel we are each our own themes and don't have to borrow, or I'm just cantankerous.
 

BROBS

Lifer
Nov 13, 2019
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I like churchwardens and other long stems, but I think I like the cob acorn bowl better with the shorter stem. It sets off the interesting shape better, to me. I'm ambivalent about theme pipes. I somewhat feel we are each our own themes and don't have to borrow, or I'm just cantankerous.
SO YOU FEEL THAT YOU ARE YOUR OWN GANDALF?
 

peteguy

Lifer
Jan 19, 2012
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These older Cobs are much better made (at least to me). Beefier cob, much nicer stem, this one even has a nice gold band and not the tiny brass thing the newer ones have..
 

mso489

Lifer
Feb 21, 2013
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Something went awry with the pipe cob crop about ten years ago and the bowls got quite puny, but since then, I think the crops have improved and the bowls have gotten bigger again. I think the poor years were a stretch of drought. My recent special edition pipes with acrylic stems have had good diameter bowls, deep too.
 

jonasclark

Part of the Furniture Now
Aug 4, 2013
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Yes, "Great Dane" Egg. The early "Great Dane" pipes came in several shapes that were very, very vaguely Danish, but that soon switched to the Egg and Spool.
 
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