Drank the Cob Koolaid

[cigrmaster]

necron99, I am with you. I tried a cob for my flakes and it didn't come close to my briar pipes. It smoked Carter Hall ok but I smoke that maybe once a year. I hate the stems and I am not going to spend money on something so inexpensive by getting a Walker forever for it. For me life is too short to smoke a bad pipe or bad tobacco, every time I light up, I want the perfect smoke, I could vapor lock at any time and I will not be seen dead in my chair with a cob sticking out of my mouth. Now that is just my tastes, obviously I am in the minority but that is ok. Most people who are in the minority are the ones who have vision, taste, class and above all, know a cob is for hillbillies who don't look the part without a cob sticking out of their gaping maws. :nana:
I will not drink the cool aide and you can't make me, so there. :mrgreen:

 

[necron99]

A good quality briar is tough to beat.

Don't get me wrong, I keep a couple of cobs around my shop, in my fishing gear, and around the barn for a smoke while doing my chores, but you will never see me sitting and relaxing in my lounge chair or at the bar with a cob. I even keep a cob in my truck for when someone wants to try out pipe tobacco. I give them the pipe and load it up and show them the ropes a bit. I buy another cob and throw it in the console. However I smoke a briar in my truck and on my motorcycle and any where else that I am not in eminent danger of throwing $100 to the wind.

now my briar range is from $100 to about $300, which is mediocre to some guys but hey more power to 'em. I'd buy a much more pricey pipe if the wallet could take it.

 

[cigrmaster]

necron, you can buy some great pipes in that price range. I own numerous American artisan estate pipes from 135-275.
My pain threshold is not much higher than yours.
Cobs definitely serve a purpose for fishing, camping, chores, but like you, sitting and relaxing I want briar. Since I don't really fish or camp or do chores( I live in a community that is maintenance free) I get to smoke briar all the time.
Every time I picture a cob, all I can think of is Granny from the Beverly Hillbillies. Now she was hot.

 

[phred]

If I'm off to the B&M, I'll smoke one of the briars I bought there (seems a little rude to bring along a pipe I bought somewhere else). If I'm out on the back patio with a book, I'll load up a briar - unless I'm in the mood for some Black House, for which I've got a dedicated cob...
If I'm walking at lunch and want a smoke, I'll use one of the small cobs (Pony Express/Missou). If I'm doing yardwork, I'll pull out a cob as well - just in case. Wouldn't want to drop a briar into the weedwacker... :D
In fact, I just bought another Missou, a Huck Finn (both small bowls for lunting), and another Country Gentleman for those times when I want a nice, long smoke during yardwork and don't feel like swapping out the churchwarden stem on my original CG.

 

[necron99]

"Every time I picture a cob, all I can think of is Granny from the Beverly Hillbillies. Now she was hot. "
Now this is just wrong.......
Now Elly May is a little different story.
One day I was out sailing with some friends and I dropped a Savinelli into the sea......bye bye $130.00 . Now on the boat say hello to Popeye the sailor.

 

[fishnbanjo]

I have many pipes and have a handmade basket (my wife made it) lined with Blue Silk and it is filled with cobs, they are what I grab if the weather is foul, I have chores outside or just want a quick smoke, many have lasted me as much as 15 years. Cobs, smoke 'em if you got 'em!

banjo

 

[phil67]

cigrmaster wrote:

Most people who are in the minority are the ones who have vision, taste, class and above all, know a cob is for hillbillies who don't look the part without a cob sticking out of their gaping maws.

Well, I guess I’m just a moronic silly old retired fart from Chicago. I have my share of briars, which I love and smoke regularly, but I wouldn’t think twice, and or hesitate for a moment about lighting up one of my burnt rimmed cobs in the Iwan Ries smoking lounge and lighting up a bowl of Astley’s No.44 or WBCDF (which I often do, and it's damn good!). Maybe I’m out in left field someplace and don’t know any better, but I smoke a pipe for the pleasure of the tobacco and not the implement in which it is smoked in (no matter what it looks like) as long as it smokes well.
But, I guess on your outlook on cobs, and those that smoke them, I’m just a scab picking, chicken flicking, belly licking , scum sucking, nose picking hillbilly who lacks vision, taste and class. Well, then I guess that would definitely be me and I’ll have to live with that. But hey... what the hell does a Chicago hillbilly like me know! lol

Hot damn, pass on the hog jowls and grits then pass me my cob! :wink:

 

[cigarsmker]

:rofl: I guess I must me a Chicago hillbilly to grew up behind Wrigley field

 

[weezell]

The Lucite stems were quickly removed and the originals returned to service. Frankly, why am I interested in dressing up a cob--or chewing up an MM stem? After all, replacements are well under a dollar...

I like the "cheap-ass" plastic stems. Would never consider a forever stem. Always smoke my cobs with a paper filter cut in half. Just me...

 

[hippiebrian]

Last night I smoked a General for the first time, sitting at my favorite coffee house. Filled it with P.S. Bird's Eye, a daily smoke for me.
A very nice 2 hour smoke, only one or two re-lights (when I left it to get a refill of coffee), and nary a gurgle. Sweet and dry compared to any of my briars. Call me a hick, I enjoy the smoke!

 

[settersbrace]

I for one am happy that the cob snobs exist. It means that the chances of having a serviceable pipe go the way of Penzance or Stonehaven to be very slim. I have and smoke briars and cobs and do so without prejudice, I'm only picky about what I put in them.

 

[cigrmaster]

phil67, great pic. lol
necron, don't go lying to me, I know you fantasize about Granny on all 4's with a Cob sticking out of her mouth, waiting for you to mount her. Damn, that is just nasty, even I can gross myself out sometimes. lol

 

[cobguy]

A short limerick for you Granny Fans, sung to the shows theme song:
Gonna' tell you a story 'bout a man name Jed,

Poor mountain boy who never got head.

Out one day he was shootin' in the grass,

up popped Granny so he F#$d her in the A$$ ... hole that is ... 8O
LOL ... I think I heard that 30 years ago!

 

[cigrmaster]

cobguy, lolololol, I never heard that before, freaking classic.

 

[necron99]

Nah, too skinny for me. I prefer some meat on em. And may be even a little thicker than what most fellas prefer. I prefer mine to look like a Renaissance painting.

 

[cobguy]

Lol ... thought you might like that one Harris! :D
Speaking of Kool-Aid though ... I decided to try an aromatic today called April Dawn (Sutliff).
This tasted like someone took an already poor blend and accidentally spilled cherry Kool-Aid on it.
Chuckles were had as I dumped that crap out and remembered why I don't smoke Aro's! :mrgreen:

 

[ravkesef]

Anybody who wants to call me a peasant for smoking – and enjoying – my Cobs is welcome to do so.

 

[necron99]

Bloody peasant.

 

[thesmokingtexan]

My newest corn cob pipes just came in the mail. I am about to load it up and give it a try. This is the Mark Twain.

 

[thesmokingtexan]

Here is the other one. This is the Huck Finn. It has a smaller bowl but I do not think it has much less capacity than my Dr Grabow. The walls are not near as thick and sturdy feeling as the Mark Twain through.