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Found a display of MM Legends for under $6 yesterday, so I picked on up. I mean, shouldn't everyone have at least one Legend in their cob collection?
I know this is an ancient post but I gotta say that is brilliant! What a great way to upgrade a cob and save a bit of a legend.
The aesthetics of the cob are never as sexy as the briars, bit I think it's really the shank and stem that lets it down. They look so plebeian. What you did there would be a great use of old Medicos and Grabows, the kind of things I see at estate sales all the time where the bowl is hammered but everything else is decent. It would hold a filter, too!
Great stuff!
While ordering a few tins recently, I also perused the pipes, as is the proper thing to do.
I haven't bought a pipe in a long time and liked the look of the new HoneyPot Cobs so...
I'm no where near the usual quality of photos that others take, but these will do.
I haven't bought a pipe in a long time and liked the look of the new HoneyPot Cobs so...
I'm no where near the usual quality of photos that others take, but these will do.
I have two of these and I think they're a great pipe. Hope you it serves you well.
Couple of my franken-cobs. In weird lighting, apparently. I like the Danish 6mil stems but they make the pipes really long. So I chopped em. Someone earlier in the thread was talking about the mushy cob core under the sticker; I also considered gluing a coin or somesuch to the bottom but with these two I went with a couple variations of pipe mudding. The one in back I tried CaneRod Piper's method of drilling and filling the base. The one in front, I pulled the shank and reset it at the opposite rake. Now its an Angel Anse. I used a dropper to put thinned out honey under and around the bore tenon and mashed in some really thin mud to attempt forming a cake only at the base of the bowl. My hope is that the thick cake down there will insulate and protect the foot. First one looks cool but is kind of meh and tastes a little gross. Might knock out the mud and try again, it's kind of crumbly and I think I got too much of the mud on the walls of the furnace, negating s cob's critical feature. The one in front I just did last night and the honey was dry enough to smoke this morning. Probably should have waited a lot longer but i ended up packing it twice today while working outside and it's smoking nicely. Great little clencher. Going to keep mangling these things until they dance for me.
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The first is my Country Gent & a forever stem I put a bend & twist in just for shits n grins.
The second is a custom job from Souther Roots Pipes. Both are great smokers & can’t be beat for the money.
The second is a custom job from Souther Roots Pipes. Both are great smokers & can’t be beat for the money.
After going with a C type red amber tortoise Forever Stem for my first Country Gentleman I wanted a blue one for my second, and it just arrived in the mail today! I feel like this stem makes it way fancier looking than a corncob pipe ever needed to be, but it sure is pretty!
I've used Durham's Rock Hard Water Putty with great success. It's just Plaster of Paris with a different name. It works really well to fill in the bottom of cobs. I've used it for a Country Gent, a Mark Twain and a Diplomat.
I was recently trying to decide whether or not I considered this non-toxic enough for that very purpose. The MSDS calls it non-hazardous so it should be fine.. thanks for reminding me, going to give it a shot soon.
Yes, I went through the same process. CaneRodPiper made a follow up video about how he is using Plaster of Paris now. There doesn't seem to be anything else in Durham's that would cause problems.
Can't be any worse than what happens when you scorch the birch shank. Man, that about killed me!
I thought I'd have a little more fun then just going hey your avatar is of Jeeves.
The Legend is my favorite cob. Mine came with a hardwood plug in the bottom of the chamber. I tried for years to find another one just like it, but only found the "Washingtons" with the hard wood plug like mine. I had one like that as well but didn't like it as much as my Legend. I emailed MM one day asking about how to get one, and the nice lady simply replied, " I have no idea, the Legends don't come with a hardwood plug".
So I guess mine is extremely rare!
Where'd you find a Washington with a plug? None of my 6 Washingtons have one, but I'd love to have a few with plugs. Maybe I'll mod them one day if the bottoms get too eroded.The Legend is my favorite cob. Mine came with a hardwood plug in the bottom of the chamber. I tried for years to find another one just like it, but only found the "Washingtons" with the hard wood plug like mine. I had one like that as well but didn't like it as much as my Legend. I emailed MM one day asking about how to get one, and the nice lady simply replied, " I have no idea, the Legends don't come with a hardwood plug".
So I guess mine is extremely rare!