First Cobb I've Bought in Years

[avail]

New product, such a cool pipe just couldn't resist...Mockingbird. Anybody volunteer to break it in? LOL

(Just searched, seems a lot of guys have one, love it.)

 

[Kobold]

I clicked this thinking it was about Ty Cobb. Still a nice pipe though!

 

[FLDRD]

I don't recall any unpleasantness to breaking mine in......

 

[avail]

I don't recall any unpleasantness to breaking mine in......

Me either, but legend has it that Mark Twain abhorred it. Sourced on the internet, it must be true. Maybe he says this in one of his books.

Twain's Corncob Pipe
"I never smoke a new corn-cob pipe," Mark Twain told The Idler magazine in 1892. "A new pipe irritates the throat. No corn-cob pipe is fit for anything until it has been used at least a fortnight."

He claimed he would hire someone else ("a cheap man -- a man who doesn't amount to much, anyhow--who would be as well--or better--dead") to break in a pipe, and then would put in a new stem and use it as long as it held together."

 

[fireground_piper]

I'm sorry you've had to stoop to such lows!

 

[telescopes]

New product, such a cool pipe just couldn't resist...Mockingbird. Anybody volunteer to break it in? LOL

(Just searched, seems a lot of guys have one, love it.)

Now that is a handsome cob.

 

[SmokeyJock]

cobs don't need broken in, Twain sounds like a bit of a twat

 

[SmokeyJock]

beautiful pipe though!

 

[LeafErikson]

Beautiful pipe. I looked it up to potentially purchase one but it’s a 6mm model and I much prefer the draw on the 3mm models. I hope you enjoy the new pipe.

 

[Joe H]

That's a new pipe?!? It looks like you've been loving it for years. One of the reasons I never bought a cob was that I didn't think I'd live long enough to see it wear-in to a proper level. That thing looks totally legit! Well done, and maybe I need to visit the MM web site again.

 

[avail]

Beautiful pipe. I looked it up to potentially purchase one but it’s a 6mm model and I much prefer the draw on the 3mm models. I hope you enjoy the new pipe.

I've never heard of a 3 mm filter, and I'm a filter nut.

 

[avail]

Thanks, guys...and the thing is it's a cobb and will smoke great. I got it at Tobbaco Pipes, grabbed it before they sold out.

 

[LeafErikson]

I've never heard of a 3 mm filter, and I'm a filter nut.

Yeah the 3mm cobs are just the filterless models. I’ve never actually tried a filter in a pipe to be honest.

 

[avail]

Yeah the 3mm cobs are just the filterless models. I’ve never actually tried a filter in a pipe to be honest.

Thanks, I forgot about that.

 

[Sigmund]

The only 3mm filters are rolled paper and they do very little other than block an airway

 

[Auxsender]

cobs don't need broken in, Twain sounds like a bit of a twat

My thought exactly.