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Pipe and cigar talk

Red Beard said:
Explain a bit more please
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What a lot of people notice when they pick up a corn cob is that their is a huge shank from the stem in the bowl. During your first few smokes, albeit un pleasant, keeping your bowl burning and burning that shank out goes a long way to making the pipe a good smoker. Here’s an article. I do mine a little quicker.
www.tobaccopipes.com

How to break in a corn cob pipe

Learn how to break in a corn cob pipe and what makes cobs different from briar. A quick guide to help you get the most out of your Missouri Meerschaum pipe!
www.tobaccopipes.com www.tobaccopipes.com
 
Petrichor said:
What a lot of people notice when they pick up a corn cob is that their is a huge shank from the stem in the bowl. During your first few smokes, albeit un pleasant, keeping your bowl burning and burning that shank out goes a long way to making the pipe a good smoker. Here’s an article. I do mine a little quicker.
www.tobaccopipes.com

How to break in a corn cob pipe

Learn how to break in a corn cob pipe and what makes cobs different from briar. A quick guide to help you get the most out of your Missouri Meerschaum pipe!
www.tobaccopipes.com www.tobaccopipes.com
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Thank you much!
 
I know it's been said already, but the Bovida packs are the way to go. Amazon has the 72% 'ers; drop your sticks into a Tupperware box, and you'll be good to go! It's a quick DIY humidor. Also, another great stick is the "M" by Macanudo, its smooth, enjoyable Coffee flavored stick. Everyone has their own "tastes" when it comes to cigars; what is good to one is not to another. I suggest ordering a few samplers online and seeing what you like and don't like. The thread has some solid advice, so read carefully, and you'll be fine.
 
Red Beard said:
Sweet. Do you use a screen in the bottom of your cobs? Or just pack tobacco straight into the bottom of the bowl?
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Straight in. Keep cake off the sides. A little bit of natural pipe mud at the bottom (ash and saliva) will protect the bottom of your pipe. No screens here. I’ve owned all the fancy briars a man could want. A whole rotation of meerschaum pipes. Thousands of dollars. Once I bought a few cobs to try out different blends I never went back. I gave the horde to a dear friend. Only meerschaum in my opinion rivals a cob. But it’s fragile and has more upkeep not to mention the price of about 15 cobs for a good one. My worn in cob is 5 years old.
 
Petrichor said:
Straight in. Keep cake off the sides. A little bit of natural pipe mud at the bottom (ash and saliva) will protect the bottom of your pipe. No screens here. I’ve owned all the fancy briars a man could want. A whole rotation of meerschaum pipes. Thousands of dollars. Once I bought a few cobs to try out different blends I never went back. I gave the horde to a dear friend. Only meerschaum in my opinion rivals a cob. But it’s fragile and has more upkeep not to mention the price of about 15 cobs for a good one. My worn in cob is 5 years old.
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Right on. Yep. One smoke from this cob and I'm sold on them. Amazed at how the taste of tobacco is clearer than a wooden pipe.
 
Red Beard said:
Trying to figure if smoking black raspberry tobacco from a corn cob pipe while hanging from a tether would have a positive effect on the number of deer I see this year :smiley:
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Not really a fan of aromatics myself, save a couple. I’m personally not gonna risk it in a nylon hammock……. I’d light my butt on fire. Literally
 
Red Beard said:
Trying to figure if smoking black raspberry tobacco from a corn cob pipe while hanging from a tether would have a positive effect on the number of deer I see this year :smiley:
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I'd recommend to go with apple-vanilla for a DIY Nose Jammer!

(Actually I'm not in to flavored tobaccos)
 
So Redbeard are you enjoying the pipe or the cigars more? I’ve only ever smoked a handful of cigars. Never smoked a pipe. In general which one is cheaper after you have a pipe?


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