Corn Cob Pipe Modification Part 1 Introduction 

I use Meerschaum pipes . I live 30 minutes from Washington Missouri . It's a great store and museum !

That pipe is a Legend in the Rob Roy shape. Mark Twains are much larger. I love that you are doing this series. I've always wanted to modify my cobs. Thanks for the series.

Your voice is incredibly soothing. You had me completely engrossed in the video! I look forward to learning more about corn cob pipes from you!

I love to watch videos by craftsmen like you. I have two Missouri Meerschaums - one was gifted by Parsimonious Piper and the other I bought. The one I bought has the “Forever Stem” while the other is a straight billiard. I haven’t smoked the billiard yet but I love the one with the forever stem. Good smoker that I can smoke most anything in. Also fits well in my hand. Loved your suggestions and info. I learned a lot!! Thank you so much for posting!😊 Wish I had seen this long before now!

Really glad you are doing this new series... Thanks for showing us

If Bob Ross modified corn cob pipes he would be this guy.

Hello my fellow MM enthusiast! Although I love my briar pipes, I smoke cobs very often and I love collecting and modifying them. I wanted to mention some friendly info; all of the pipes you showed are coated in plaster, it's just that some aren't varnished. The brown ones are stained _and_ varnished. The plain cobs are easy to spot because they have a very rough textured exterior (it's a corn cob after all), they're _very_ lightweight, and significantly cheaper in price. The factory second pipe at 10:40 is called a Rob Roy, which is a cool shape IMO, and it's stained yellow but has no varnish. Sadly they changed the 10-pipe grab bag to 7, and now it's $34.99. Personally I like the plastered ones - or "polished" as MM calls them, regardless of varnish - best, but the raw ones dissipate heat very quickly, which is a bonus, and that's why some folks prefer those over the polished ones. Anyways, I really liked your video and I'll be sure to check out some more! Best Regards from Cape Cod Massachusetts 👍🇺🇸

The Country Gentleman is my personal favorite as well. Hope you had a Great Thanksgiving!! All the best!!

All the wood used in the pipes is birch, like the shank and plug, thanks for making this vid :-)

Cool! I like to stain mine. If you take a diplomat bent apple and put a straight bit on it its a really comfy and handsome shape.

I value my Missouri Meerschaums more than I do a lot of my briars. They are great pipes and always give a fantastic smoke. In fact, I have found that the best smokers are inverse to their price - cobs, clays, briar.

Definitely interested in the pipe mud video, I think a couple of my cobs could use a nice mud treatment. Thanks for putting this series together!

I like to be creative too, I like your thought process. I have two corn cob pipes and and for the money I like them better because it's a simple smoke.

Enjoyed your video. Thank you .

That Mark Twain is really cool. I have two Legends in my truck that I try new blends with. They seem to heat up really fast, but not enough to toss them out.

great series!

I love my cobs as much, if not more than my briar pipes. I even burned a holethrough the bottom of my 6 dollar missouri pride and now wanting to repair it because its the best smoking pipe ive ever had.

Excellent video! I like corn cobs, just wish they did a 9mm version as the draw would be better. I find the 6mm filters overload with moisture too easy. Savinelli balsa filters are better with moisture but don’t filter much else. I agree with you, the shank taste is a disadvantage, I use filter crystals in the base of the bowls to reduce that and assist the savinelli balsa in absorbing tar. Gonna get me some more Meerschaum models to modify.

This is great!

Thanks

I wish you could still get those 2nds

Salam kreatif 👍🇮🇩

I always learn something watching your videos

hello, could you tell me witch video have the explanation of pipe mude, and sometinhg for I polish my corn pipe (sorry for any english mistake, im from Brasil) tks

An excellent and helpful series of videos, Mike. Thanks! My ideal chamber width is 0.85". Most factory cobs measure around 0.75". Which is fine, but I like to build a cake, so the factory chamber width ends up being a bit too narrow for me. Any suggestions for drilling the chamber to make it wider? Some people might panic about doing anything like that, but I've never had a cob burn through. Also, a good cake acts as a firewall, and my cobs seem to last forever anyway. So I'm not concerned with thinning out the walls a bit. Cheers and Mellow Puffs, Mark P.S. I use Virginia ash and tap water for pipe mud and never had a problem. Hard and smooth as granite when it dries. Cigar ash is probably ideal, but inconvenient for me. In the end, pipe tobacco ash seems to work just fine.

3:16 Huh. My stem doesn't go nowhere near as far inside the chamber. This is the only issue I have with it as some tobacco goes to waste because it's trapped underneath. Still can't beat em at that price point though.

I have that exact pipe.

hey I've got this crack near the "lip" of the bowl of my MM morgan natural, cracking down maybe 1 cm to the exterior. seems like there is no leaking, just crack. is that okay? what can I do about it? thank you

Are the stems of regular models and the cobbit series interchangeable? For example: switching a wizard stem with a missouri pride stem and vice versa.

Being a new piper, seeking tips for boring out the chamber slightly. I am thinking of using a 3/4" spoon bit to ream the chamber to 3/4" and stop shy of the bottom to remove the bit of shank that extends into the chamber. What are your thoughts on this?

As I am new to Corncob pipes seems like recently having bought one myself a few days ago there seems to be a wooden piece from the stem and going through and poking out on the bottom of the pipe and it has some hole so if trying to smoke the tobacco the smell etc. Possibly travel through that wooden tube part . I was however wondering if anyone who knows/ has experienced this/ has any knowledge of why there is a piece of wooden part sticking out of the bottom of the chamber or bowl leading up from the stem?

How long do cobs last for a heavy smoker ? Quarter ounce ish per day .

diplomat vs normal pipe,i have a question,does the normal corn pipe durability make a good life time?

Hi would you like to trade an unsmoked black stemmed pipe with a brand new ember stemmed one.?

smoke the hell out of it and the cake will fill in the spaces in the bottom and burn down the walls of that hole extension till it's flush, then it's great

That pipe you called a Mark Twain is a Rob Roy.

Got mine for Christmas 1974and its still smoking

You mention the "Plaster like material" that's exactly what it is Plaster of Paris.

Also I can’t find on the website where to get the seconds

Did you used to have a podcast? Your voice is very familiar.

I think the stem is corn cob too.

I love my Missouri Meerschaum pipes......100% AMERICAN MADE......…...BUY AMERICAN!!!

Why whisper?

How durable are corncob pipes? How many years can I use them?