I hope they do another run of those.
Forever Stems
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Not bad! I like the shell casing. Aristocob?
I didn't add in the dye job on mine since I did it, but I imagine that might add a couple bucks to the price in the custom cob market.
A friend of mine made that from a dowel rod, a shell casing, and a micro MM stem. It holds a single pipe cleaner bent twice.
I have two forever stems. To be honest, I'm not a huge fan. They create a lot of moisture for me, and are hard and at times uncomfortable. They look great, but I'm a wet smoker I guess, and the gurgling is annoying.
I haven't had any gurgle. I hear you on the comfort though. I'm fine with them, but I don't clench often so it's not as much of an issue. I'd agree that they aren't good clenching stems.
And I usually prefer acrylic stems. But these are intense. And I'm afraid to try to open them up. I ruined a different acrylic stem once before.
Yeah, with the acrylic stems the smoking experience is excellent. The light weight cobs make the acrylic stems easy on the mouth and teeth, and you could be smoking a high end briar from the comfort point of view. In the Forever line, I bought one orange swirl stem that sets off the cob perfectly; it doesn't look arty or funky, just fine.
I dont like the discoloration on cob rims as they are smoked, not from charring, just from the smoke. Cleaning isn't possible as all that happens is the lacquer is smeared. That was done with diluted chocolate syrup and a lighter. Never understood how one could char a rim just smoking it.That rim looks too perfectly charred. Did you do it on purpose?
Mine aren't charred, it's lava from overflow. I over pack apparently...
I just treat my cobs like any other pipe. I've yet had to ream them. The one pictured is five years old and even have a General from 2010 with the original stem.
I treat my cobs like any other pipe as well. Constantly full of cake and needing a reaming, banged on Jeep windows, dirty, and stinky. Lol
Btw, MM sells a few cobs with acrylic stems, like the Charles Towne Cobbler (one of my favorite pipes), a similar one with a green stem, and Carolina Gent to name a few, These three cost around 24 bucks each.
I always get various MM standard filtered cobs (and of course throw away the filters) and the danish bits for them all. My favorite models are the Washington and the diplomat apple.
Same, but I only get the straight Danish stems and bend them myself. That factory MM bend is too severe.
Agreed. How do you bend them? I’d like to give that a shot and see if I can get a nice elongated bent.
I use a lighter, though I know many use boiling water.
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