I have you and I like it, I don't worry about teeth marks on the stem or the char on the rim. I only smoke my goopy aeros in it and it seems to do just fine,
Well, I am going to pick up a corncob just for the hell of it, I started with low end briar and if I had known better I woulda started off with a cob. But live and learn. The only thing that burns money like my pipe habit is the gas for my truck! LOLOL