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One of the great appeals of the Missouri Meerschaum Company is the 150 year tradition of growing and making corn cob pipes, another is the vertical integration. The "pipe corn" grown by the company is a high bred of 4 varieties designed to yield larger thicker cobs, and originally developed in the 1960s. The grain is also used, though not by Missouri Meerschaum. Some of it is made into whiskey by [http://pinckneybend.com/rested-american-whiskey/ Pinckney Bend Distillery]. I really need to try that paired with smoking one of my cobs! Some of the cobs that are too small for being fashioned into pipes are now being made into duck calls by a local Washington woodworker. | One of the great appeals of the Missouri Meerschaum Company is the 150 year tradition of growing and making corn cob pipes, another is the vertical integration. The "pipe corn" grown by the company is a high bred of 4 varieties designed to yield larger thicker cobs, and originally developed in the 1960s. The grain is also used, though not by Missouri Meerschaum. Some of it is made into whiskey by [http://pinckneybend.com/rested-american-whiskey/ Pinckney Bend Distillery]. I really need to try that paired with smoking one of my cobs! Some of the cobs that are too small for being fashioned into pipes are now being made into duck calls by a local Washington woodworker. | ||
<gallery widths=300 heights= | <gallery widths=300 heights=225 caption="Factory Tour, March 2019"> | ||
File:MissouriMeerschaum-Stacks.jpg|One of many stacks of cobs aging (a minimum of two years before being made into pipes) | File:MissouriMeerschaum-Stacks.jpg|One of many stacks of cobs aging (a minimum of two years before being made into pipes) | ||
File:MissouriMeerschaum-cobs.jpg|Corn cobs awaiting their destiny | File:MissouriMeerschaum-cobs.jpg|Corn cobs awaiting their destiny | ||
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File:MissouriMeerschaum-cobs-with-shanks2.jpg|Cobs with shanks, and what appears to be a tenon cutter | File:MissouriMeerschaum-cobs-with-shanks2.jpg|Cobs with shanks, and what appears to be a tenon cutter | ||
File:MissouriMeerschaum-cobs-with-shanks3.jpg|Cobs with shanks after lacquering | File:MissouriMeerschaum-cobs-with-shanks3.jpg|Cobs with shanks after lacquering | ||
File:MissouriMeerschaum-Barrel-of-cobs.jpg|A barrel of corncob pipes, ready | File:MissouriMeerschaum-Barrel-of-cobs.jpg|A barrel of corncob pipes, ready for packaging and shipping to their new homes | ||
</gallery> | </gallery> | ||