While perusing another forum, I noticed someone had the same thought I did. Well, almost. Let me explain.
I have four MM Twain cobs. I fell in love with the first two I bought. Having survived the drought a few years ago that made all MM cob production tiny, I bought two more to squirrel away. I didn't want to get stuck with "mini Twains" if I bought them a few years down the road.
The four Twains, while having a similar outside diameter, have three very different inside diameters. (I can measure them when I get home later, if anyone cares.) My first is the largest, and my favorite. The Number One Port Side Booger Hooker will go into the bowl all the way to the bottom, with wiggle room. The second, Booger Hooker bottoms, but no wiggle room. The third and fourth, Booger Hooker only goes in to the first knuckle.
My first instinct (which is usually catastrophically wrong, BTW), was to bore the smaller ones out to match the size of the bigger ones, which is what the guy on the other forum did. Then I remembered a sad incident where a Great Dane Spool I loved very much burned out all around the thin waist of the bowl, and eventually came apart into two pieces. I started to think, Maybe the people at MM know more about corncob pipes than I do, and there is a perfectly good reason for the different chamber diameters. I am now afraid that boring them out will remove too much of the hard pith, and put the ember too close to the softer, corn-kernelly part of the cob, inviting a burnout. Any thoughts on this?
I have four MM Twain cobs. I fell in love with the first two I bought. Having survived the drought a few years ago that made all MM cob production tiny, I bought two more to squirrel away. I didn't want to get stuck with "mini Twains" if I bought them a few years down the road.
The four Twains, while having a similar outside diameter, have three very different inside diameters. (I can measure them when I get home later, if anyone cares.) My first is the largest, and my favorite. The Number One Port Side Booger Hooker will go into the bowl all the way to the bottom, with wiggle room. The second, Booger Hooker bottoms, but no wiggle room. The third and fourth, Booger Hooker only goes in to the first knuckle.
My first instinct (which is usually catastrophically wrong, BTW), was to bore the smaller ones out to match the size of the bigger ones, which is what the guy on the other forum did. Then I remembered a sad incident where a Great Dane Spool I loved very much burned out all around the thin waist of the bowl, and eventually came apart into two pieces. I started to think, Maybe the people at MM know more about corncob pipes than I do, and there is a perfectly good reason for the different chamber diameters. I am now afraid that boring them out will remove too much of the hard pith, and put the ember too close to the softer, corn-kernelly part of the cob, inviting a burnout. Any thoughts on this?
