Nothing smokes better than a Missouri Meerschaum corn cob pipe, at any price. I only have about 12 of them. I have some that I have been smoking for over 30 years, and they still smoke as good as the day I bought them.
I started on a corn cob for my 19th birthday. It was an excellent decision because the bowl size was manageable for me, coming from smoking 1 cigarette or 1 cigarillo a day. I now at 22, will smoke my pipe (I have 3 including my 1st one) once a week on either Friday or Sunday, and I'll have a monthly cigar. Great video mate!
Been long time in this pipesmoking business,racks full of briars but still I smoke old and new corn cobs. I have certain blends that are absolutely divine in cobs, I can't get same result with a briar or meerschaum pipes. Few months back I got few new MM cobs and those are good pipes,smoking while writing this 15 year old legend and it smokes heavenly. Thank you for nice video and I'll wish a pleasant weekend and smokes.
I have a country gentleman pipe, love it, I have made my own corn cob pipe with a bamboo stem, both are very light weight especially my home made pipe. I highly recommend one or the other.
These cob pipes have an old world charm for me. I just bought a Cobbit Shire and Elf pipe and am waiting for them to come in. Pipe smoking is like a way to travel back in time. Great video and beautiful pipes sir.
@@BurlapJohnW Good. That was a few years ago and I don't smoke anymore but I was able to keep a pipe lit for the first time in my life after this video.
Great video even though it’s over 5 years old there is still a lot of knowledge out there about pipes. Love the cobs. I got a wizard like you show for Xmas 2021 and absolutely love it. But it does take more then an hour to smoke. Thanks for your work 5 years ago.
The best.... even though I am new at piping..... I love anything 100% American made..... keep our people working.... USA all the way.... and yes, I drive a Chevy and my wife drives a Ford...
I only smoke MM corn cob pipes. Started out in a bent stem Legend and never looked back. I only smoke smaller MM now with the Morgan being my #1 (with a longer slim bit). The Dublin style Marcus is my other. Love them both so much. Love all the styles of the MM line but I don't ever go larger than a Rob Roy Legend size now. I just love the intimate feel of smaller styles.
IMO...more people probably get turned off by pipes, not for lack of a $200 briar pipe, but from bad smoking technique. That's how it was for me. I tried pipe smoking years ago, because I love the smell of good tobacco, burning or otherwise. The tongue bite killed it for me...now years later, thanks to RU-vid I'm learning that good technique will prevent tongue bite.
Been smoking pipes on and off for years and I give my tongue an awful lashing nearly daily. I never could find a blend that doesn't give me tounge bite. It used to be so bad that my tongue would bleed. I've just gotten used to it after all the years but I smoke hot and hardly ever stop sipping.
Just bought my first one at Walgreens . It was only 9.99 ! It smokes better than my meerschaum nose warmer. I can’t tell which one it is . It was in a package cover in dust . They had two ,I’m buying another !
I’ve only had a few briars for awhile, then I decided to get a better rotation and I got a couple Mm cobs bc of their affordability. I loved how they smoke much more than my cheap briars(still double the price or more than the cobs)so I decided to get one for every day of the week and a couple back ups. You can still get them for under $10 you can get nice ones anywhere from 12-$40
The one you forgot the name for is The Country Gentleman, got one in my rotation and love it, that and a Legend purchased at the local Rite Aid, both smoke great and should last for years since I mudded the bottoms with cigar ash and water. I also have a pair of Eatons coming my way direct from MM to take with me camping since where I'm headed is far too humid for briars to get anywhere near dry after a smoke.
That was very helpful on my decisions. I have many block meerschaum pipes but was looking for some that I could turn some people on to at an affordable price. I have just ordered my first Missouri Meerschaum and can't wait until I get the chance to smoke it.
If a pipe continues to be sold for all those years then obviously it’s good , I’ve got £150 briar pipes but I still prefer to smoke my corn cobs , once that wooden shank inside is charred your away to years of smoking pleasure..But charring in that shank does take a few bowls to get rid of that hot burning wood flavour..In my opinion you will never get a better smoke from any pipe , that’s why so many pipers have a cob or six in their collection..Is there any better value for money out there ? I don’t think so .
Thanks for the advice on how to break in your corn-cob pipe. Getting the smoking cadence take some serious practice. I puff to much and it gets hot... Nice video and advice .... Thank you very much .... jeff preston Norwich, N.Y.
Thank you for making this video! I'm new to the hobby and I've been looking for a good affordable pipe. I love the cobbit pipes - based on my favorite movie series :) . But I think I will get the Eaton to start out, I would hate to mess up one of the really cool ones.
I am more of a hookah smoker but because I enjoy the natural taste of tobacco, I am pretty much forced to make my own shisha tobacco for my hookah pipe which I discovered the perfect precise measurements for doing that through trial and error but other than hookah I also enjoy dokha tobacco too.
Hey brother, new piper here of just a month or two. Just got a Dune Shire Cobbit the other day. Smoking Missouri Meerschaum 150th Anniversary Blend out of it. First of all, I love it but I do absolutely have some questions: 1. The bowl gets very hot! Way more than my Peterson Donegal Rocky. 2. The hole in the shank is massive! I suck back hot tobacco and it’s no good. What’s the remedy for that? 3. Because of #2, I can never burn the tobacco all the way down. It stops at the hole, but the bowl goes deeper. Should I get a screen? Thanks brother! Subscribed! PS - great name 🇺🇸👊
I know Dr grabows are a everyman's premium pipe and I can tell you from experience Missouri meerschaum corn cob pipes are much more dirty after you smoke them I think its the wood they use for the shank it traps too much moisture its always seems to have more tar when I clean it but corn cobs do smoke well but how the hell would you run a pipe cleaner down the stem on a churchwarden?
You can tell when you are burning out an MM pipe. It will start tasting like burning corn. (I was young and inexperienced at one time, too...belive it or not.). As long as you don't taste corn, you're fine.
As super cheap as these are. basically the best cheap pipe there is. I don't see why people would reallyyyy be so concerned about it. I mean I see why. But as far as cost. It's not that bad! if I spent 100s on a pipe I wouldn't even wanna put tobacco in it much less light it
I bought a dud missouri Meerschaum pipe from a shop called smoker friendly. I didn't ask for a refund or a replacement, but just swung in on my way to the gym to let them know it was a bad pipe and that they may want to check the rest of their batch. The guy gives me an "earfull" (joke) about how it's made out of corn and they don't last very long and I just said bullshit, 1 month is a short time for a cob. He said we got some new ones in, and I told him I wasn't looking for a replacement at least not from here and it was just a professional courtesy. Long story short, buy direct from the company. Not enough people buy pipes and the tobacco shops that carry them will have them improperly stored and tobacco is usually dried out anyway.
What blends would you recommend to someone starting out in pipe smoking? I have already bought some Morton's Cellar and On the Town but would love to hear your opinion.
To be honest, if I am only paying $4 for a pipe, I don't care if it lasts for decades. I could be forced to buy a new one every year and that would still be a bargain.
@@mattbenz99 I love my cobs, my briars, mortas, clays, and meerschaums. All pipes are beautiful to me. But I personally like to treat my cobs like the rest of my pipes. I want my 5 dollar MM cobs to last as long as my 180 dollar Savinellis.
i am enjoying con cob. but the problem i am having is the stem going into the bowl cracked on two of my pipe. what is happening caisausing this to happen. these are the only 2 that this has happened. payed under 5.00qhat you showed is what i am smoking great pipe .
Ronald Guyor sr Your pipes might be cracking because they need to rest between uses. After using one for a day or two they should be allowed to dry for at least 5 days.
Love the video, and thanks for your advice on breaking them in. I have just bought my first MM corn cob pipe but not yet had time to relax and start smoking it. I wonder if you can answer a question that is causing my brain to work overtime. I thought that meerschaum was a stone that came from Turkey ? so if this pipe is made from corn, how can it be called a Meerschaum. Hope you can put my brain at rest. Thanks, Mark.
mark southerton you are correct, meerschaum is a mineral that fancy Turkish pipes are made of. Missouri meerschaum is a play on words. Corncob smokes as well as real meerschaum at a fraction of the price.
OK I get it now thanks, Just bought 2 of these pipes on ebay they are a fantastic smoke. I am looking at buying a couple of the reject bags from the website but U.S. tax is very high when importing to the U.K. I can buy these pipes on loads of websites but can't find any of the seconds packs. If i can't find any maybe i will have to pay the U.S. Taxes. Thanks for your help. Happy Smoking.
la pipe shire coutent en france 50euro, ce qui vaut a 60 dollars amériquains, pourquoi un telle écart de prix ? chez vous cette pipe coute moins de 10 dollars
Hi Charlz, could you please let me know the size, and measurements of your t-shirt. I am about to order one but there is no size guide on the web-site. I know from experience that U.S. sizing can be very large compared to U.K. size guides. I now own 36 Missouri Meerschaum pipes and love them so much, i very rarely smoke a briar anymore. Happy Smoking. Mark U.K.
mark southerton here is a good converter it is in inches AMERICAN FIT T-SHIRT SIZE CHEST TO FIT LENGTH XXS 32 24* XS 35 27 S 38 28 M 41 29 L 44 30 XL 48 31 2XL 52 32 3XL 56 33
Sorry to take so long to answer. No, no smoking is "safe". Skateboarding is dangerous, Skiing is dangerous, lot's of things in life are dangerous. Pipe smoking has an element of risk, and that risk depends on the individual.
A more definitive answer would be that you can lower the risk by smoking infrequently. Part of what makes smoking tobacco risky is that it's addictive. That addiction compels you to smoke with great frequency. Frequent smoking doesn't give your mouth, throat, and lung mucosa the necessary time to heal and repair the damage done to the cells. As the damage to the cells and their DNA builds up, you begin to lose some natural anti-tumor safeguards that exist in our cells. Once those are gone, your cells will grow uncontrollably into a cancerous tumor. So, what should you take from all of this? One: don't inhale smoke. Lung cancer is a shit load worse than throat or mouth cancer. Two: don't smoke everyday. Part of what makes smoking risky is frequent exposure due to the addictive nature. If you don't have an addiction to nicotine, smoking less frequently will help keep you from developing one. Three: don't smoke when you feel sick. This has less to do with risks for cancer and more risks for secondary respiratory disease. Because smoke harms your cells, it also harms their ability to function. Part of the function of your respiratory tree is to keep bad shit out. If it can't do that, you set yourself up for lower respiratory diseases like pneumonia.
The stems on the vintage cobs are made from much much better materials. Your basic MM stems are junk and i wish they'd stop using them. After a month, the soft black plastic of my brand new country gentleman is closed shut and worthless now. I shouldn't have to go buy an aftermarket stem. sorry for the rant and i do love the way the bowls smoke.
