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Post by Deleted on Jul 8, 2017 21:57:13 GMT -5
Someone said ya can never have enough cobs John, I think you took that literally sir. Nice collection BTW. Here are a few of mine I just gathered up for a photo, 6 are missing but, are ones I smoke the dickens out of and none to pretty anyhow.  I love those diamond/square shanked ones. |
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Post by That Falls Guy on Jul 9, 2017 14:51:09 GMT -5
 Somehow the picture got all distorted from the image host. (It was fine for years) but here's a circa 1965-1970 Dr. Grabow Legend, bent. They were made by Missouri Meerschaum for Dr. Grabow.  And... it appears several photos are screwed up. Awesome.  This picture is a few years old, but here are other various cobs. Many of these have had 1,000 or more bowls through them since last photo'd. Plus several others have been added. Love the Dr. Grabow cob. That is a rare item that you don't see very much of anymore. |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 10, 2017 20:10:11 GMT -5
my start of a cob collection 3 devils and a boo  |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 10, 2017 20:53:09 GMT -5
Well I guess I will have to find a way to squire more Corn Cob Porn. Hmmmm, maybe take a Country Gent and find a way to modify it.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 10, 2017 20:57:10 GMT -5
Light bulb on. What about a malformed Twain second and see what happens? Or may be a legend.
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Post by danno44 on Jul 11, 2017 13:55:01 GMT -5
I'll play. First entire collection.  The top left is the first pipe I ever bought back in March 2015 at a local cigarette shop. First smoke was 4-1-15 with CB Royal. The 3 Legends on right not smoked and were in the goodie bags from contests. Now for the good stuff. 2 matched sets. Both sets in-smoked.  This one has a Bamboo shank.  The Crown Jewels are the bent and straight Corndogs. No stickers, but stamped with "M" on the shanks.  |
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Post by Lady Margaret on Jul 11, 2017 16:50:50 GMT -5
I'll play. First entire collection. The top left is the first pipe I ever bought back in March 2015 at a local cigarette shop. First smoke was 4-1-15 with CB Royal. The 3 Legends on right not smoked and were in the goodie bags from contests. Now for the good stuff. 2 matched sets. Both sets in-smoked. This one has a Bamboo shank. The Crown Jewels are the bent and straight Corndogs. No stickers, but stamped with "M" on the shanks.
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Post by stvalentine on Jul 11, 2017 16:53:43 GMT -5
Those Corn Dogs are killin´ me...  ...but I guess you could say that I am slightly into cobs as well.   |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 11, 2017 17:50:50 GMT -5
Looking good Frank. Bet some of the people around you thinks you are off the wall with those disposable American Pipes.
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Post by crapgame on Jul 11, 2017 18:26:44 GMT -5
Looking good Frank. Bet some of the people around you thinks you are off the wall with those disposable American Pipes. Nothing disposable about that collection!!! awesome Frank!..I am starting to get "cob fever"! Those snooty folks have no clue!! |
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Post by stvalentine on Jul 12, 2017 11:27:13 GMT -5
Thank you guys! And thats the fact over here: nobody has a clur about cobs. Well, let them sleep I say...  |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 15, 2017 20:13:56 GMT -5
Light bulb on. What about a malformed Twain second and see what happens? Or may be a legend. The mal formed Twain has been found and treated its cracked shank has been made anew. The narrow and tilted bottom is straight and true. The top made new with a bit of sanding. Now whats left is to find a happy color. A stem of yellow sit in this fellow to bring a soothing smoke.   With him sits a tamper anew this to help make the man a happy fellow. |
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Post by Zach on Jul 16, 2017 8:29:28 GMT -5
That's pretty cool, John. Dan: can't believe you still haven't smoked those casedCorndogs! @frank: Nice collection you've got there. I've got some German friends from a few years ago that do smoke cobs. One is in Wiesbaden, the other lives about an hour or so away from there. |
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Post by stvalentine on Jul 16, 2017 10:49:22 GMT -5
I suppose my fellow countrymen are not all that ignorant about cobs then.  |
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Post by danno44 on Jul 16, 2017 12:00:18 GMT -5
Dan: can't believe you still haven't smoked those casedCorndogs! I know, I just can't bring myself to smoke them yet. They were such a rare find I'm torn between smoking or not. |
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Post by Zach on Jul 16, 2017 13:24:55 GMT -5
It's your decision to make, however I will smoke any and all pipes. If I somehow manage to find a cased and unsmoked 1895 Barling, better believe I'm stuffing tobacco into it.
It kind of addles me when I see people with hundreds of unsmoked pipes! Not that you have to smoke them, just saying my point of view. I do in fact smoke all my 50-100 year old pipes.
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Post by danno44 on Jul 16, 2017 14:10:26 GMT -5
It's your decision to make, however I will smoke any and all pipes. If I somehow manage to find a cased and unsmoked 1895 Barling, better believe I'm stuffing tobacco into it. It kind of addles me when I see people with hundreds of unsmoked pipes! Not that you have to smoke them, just saying my point of view. I do in fact smoke all my 50-100 year old pipes. I agree I intended to smoke them as I'm not a collector, but for some reason I just haven't ....yet. I also have an 8 dot fishtail logo (Pre WWII) Sasieni that I haven't smoked yet but plan too in 2 weeks on my birthday. |
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Post by That Falls Guy on Jul 18, 2017 12:07:27 GMT -5
Scary Cobs!!! Recently was at a store that had some old corn for sale. The husks were all dried and brown. Some of the ears looked pretty thick, so I thought ......"I'll pick up a couple of these to see if I could make a pipe out of them!". When I got home, I husked the corn, and was surprised to see that it actually looked pretty good, and would have been fine to eat. But, anyway, I took them down to my cellar, and cut them with my miter saw. I had intended to bring them upstairs and dry them in the oven, but I got called away, and forgot about them for about a week or so. When I finally remember about them, went down to get them, and this is what I found!...  The kernels had actually sprouted! I've never seen anything like that before. Well, anyway, I'm going to dry them out anyway, and we'll see what happens! |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 18, 2017 13:08:21 GMT -5
Has anyone ever conducted a blindfold test of a cob, a briar, a morta, a meer......and put a heavy glove on the test subject(so they could not feel the surface), to see if they could detect which one they were smoking?
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Post by Deleted on Jul 18, 2017 21:19:30 GMT -5
WOOHOO! Look what I just won!  |
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Post by Lady Margaret on Jul 18, 2017 21:40:54 GMT -5
very cool, Don!
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Post by antb on Jul 19, 2017 1:39:42 GMT -5
Great score, Don!
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Post by stvalentine on Jul 19, 2017 14:24:05 GMT -5
Lovely Don! I have one of those from Bueschers but I still need one of those nicely darkened MM´s.
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Post by Elston Gunn on Jul 20, 2017 5:03:10 GMT -5
  A Mark Twain with just over 1,200 smokes through it when I took this photo. From Pipesmokersforum a gentleman over there named Charlie was running a long-term experiment to prove whether or not you could burn out a cob. Well, today the cob has just about 2,000 smokes through it and still looks much like the photo. We've been sending it all around the country for any member to smoke the pipe for 2 weeks and then pass it on to the next member on the list. Also completely proves you don't need to let it dry or take any special care of a cob. This Mark Twain was smoked for many months at 10+ bowls a day. I smoked almost 8 bowls average through this cob for 2 straight weeks and did not smoke any other pipe. It literally smoked like a dream. Any blend, we've all smoked absolutely anything through it .Rum Twist, Ennerdale, Grasmere, Carter Hall, Haunted Bookshop, latakia. Whatever. Smokes like the best pipe you've ever put in your mouth over 1,000 smokes later. I'm always happy to see a picture of the Captain. |
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Post by fadingdaylight on Jul 31, 2017 21:17:24 GMT -5
Up to 7 now, I will get a picture up in the next day or two...
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Post by Deleted on Jul 31, 2017 23:36:58 GMT -5
I am cobfused by the peoples love for cobs. I have three Old Dominions.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 1, 2017 12:41:45 GMT -5
I am cobfused by the peoples love for cobs. I have three Old Dominions. For some it is the idea that if something happens to a cob it isn't a great loss compared to a Briar or a Meershaum. Then there are those who prefer the open draw of the pipe. Then there those that smoke them just because. I smoke them because I enjoy them. Since the majority of my smoke a are non aero Burleys I get the flavors. At the same time if I choose to smoke a Va, VaBurPer, Vaper or an English in the cob they are also a good smoke. |
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Post by fadingdaylight on Aug 2, 2017 4:59:59 GMT -5
Here is that picture I promised:  |
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Post by fadingdaylight on Aug 2, 2017 5:01:53 GMT -5
Well, not sure what I did wrong there. Besides terribly photography anyway, I am well aware of my shortcomings in that respect.
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Post by That Falls Guy on Aug 2, 2017 5:51:10 GMT -5
Nothing wrong with the picture, just need to click on it. Nice pipes.
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