Legends v Washington Cobs

[sunriseboy]

I just received two Washington cobs, and thought I was having an out of body experience. They look exactly the same as the Legends I have.
WT...?!

Will someone tell me what the story is please? I feel a bit miffed that I've paid more money for no reason.

 

[3rdguy]

Washington has the black stem, Legend has a yellow coating. So $2 more for the black stem, sans yellow. Same bowl.

 

[marlinspike]

I like the MM Missouri Prides, fairly small though they may be - they're delivered unfinished, and smoke like champs.

 

[didimauw]

So my first corn cob was a legend bought in 2012, still have it. Yellow coating, and hard wood plug. I looked online to find another and only the Washington pipes with white coating list a hardwood plug. So I emailed them at Missouri meerschaum, to ask what's up with that. I was told that only the Washington pipes have the hardwood plug, and the legends are soft bottom. And that it's always been like that.

So I must have gotten a fluke pipe. It's sad cause I don't care for the Washington, but love the hardwood plug.

Probably doesn't help you at all, but I've been in a similar situation. Lol

 

[SunriseBoy]

Drill the plug out with a Forstner bit. Get a piece of dowel, drill a bowl shape about a 1/4-3/8 inch deep. Drill a breather hole at the suitable place in the piece of dowel. Fit it to the bowl, lining up the breather holes, use some PVA wood glue.
Piece of cake.
Did it to a few of mine. Works well.

 

[kcghost]

You know for decades we all knew what the MM corn cob was then over the space of twenty years we were suddenly old while MM is growing younger.