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Missouri Meerschaum Buyers Guide | Missouri Meerschaum Buyers Guide | ||
© 2008, 2009, 2011, 2012, 2013 | © 2008, 2009, 2011, 2012, 2013, | ||
by John L Patton/tiltjlp<br /> | with contributions by John L Patton/tiltjlp<br /> (Updated 1/27/2013) | ||
CC-BY-SA 2015 (Cobbit) by Jestersage | |||
Thanks to my dad’s mentoring, I’ve been a corncob smoker for over 50 years, and have written The Complete Corncob Primer. In this Buying Guide, I offer my opinions on the Missouri Meerschaum brand of corncob pipes, which I and most other experienced cobbers feel are the only decent corncobs still being made. While I have my favorites, and prefer Natural to Plastered bowls, every MM cob smokes cool and dry. Here are my reviews, starting with the largest bowl sizes to the smallest. Only cobs I have smoked are included here. | Thanks to my dad’s mentoring, I’ve been a corncob smoker for over 50 years, and have written The Complete Corncob Primer. In this Buying Guide, I offer my opinions on the Missouri Meerschaum brand of corncob pipes, which I and most other experienced cobbers feel are the only decent corncobs still being made. While I have my favorites, and prefer Natural to Plastered bowls, every MM cob smokes cool and dry. Here are my reviews, starting with the largest bowl sizes to the smallest. Only cobs I have smoked are included here. | ||
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The Pony is a small, unfiltered straight pipe. This model is a half step below the Legend in size and quality. Not a bad pipe, since I don’t feel there is a bad MM, just not the best. | The Pony is a small, unfiltered straight pipe. This model is a half step below the Legend in size and quality. Not a bad pipe, since I don’t feel there is a bad MM, just not the best. | ||
==Cobbit== | |||
The Cobbit is a new series of corncob [[churchwardens]] introduced by by Missouri Meerschaum in 2015. It comes in 4 varieties: '''Wizard''', '''Elf''', '''Shire''', and '''Dwarf''' All of them are non-filtered pipes. However, the Wizard, Shire, and Elf's fitting is the same as those used by filtered pipes, and thus the stems, which is made of vulcanites instead of the standard arcylic, can be fitted onto existing filtered pipes. All the bowls are stained black like the country gentleman and fitted with a hardwood bottom. | |||
*The '''Dwarf''' is the smallest and lightest of the series, measuring at 7 1/4 inches, and comes with the smallest bowl. Unlike the others in the series, it utilize the standard non-filtered fittings. It is designed to be easily clenched. | |||
*The '''Elf''' and the '''shire''' pipe is also a mini churchwarden, just slightly longer than the Dwarf at 7 1/2 inches. However, its vulcanite stems can be used on the filtered fittings. The Elf, being based on the Rob Roy bowl, has greater volume than the Shire's bowl, which is virtually identical to the one from diplomat (except in a nicer looking color) | |||
*If you definition of "churchwarden" requires it to be about a feet, the the '''wizard''' is the only "true churchwarden" among the series, with a total length of 11 inches. Its bowl is also significantly bigger and heavier than the others -- even managed to be deeper and wider than the General! Naturally, this make clenchign completely impossible, and lighting the pipe require certain finess. My solution is to pull the stem out and fit it onto other smaller filtered pipes that I have. | |||
Some people consider the vulcanite stem as merely "acceptable". Thus, if one decided to go with a Forever Stems Chruchwarden stem, this series may not entice you that much. However, Forever stem is also more expensive than the pipe, and it is smokeable for me; the Wizard's stem manage to give me the coolest smoke I ever have. | |||
==External Links== | |||
*http://www.corncobpipe.com/ the Missouri Meerschaum website, for product and ordering information, and a bit of company history | |||
*http://pipedia.org/index.php?title=The_Complete_Corncob_primer The Corncob Primer, follow the link below. | |||
*http://corncobsandbriar.phpbb3now.com/ John L Patton's Corncobs & Briar Forum | |||
http://www.corncobpipe.com/ | |||
http://pipedia.org/index.php?title=The_Complete_Corncob_primer | |||
http://corncobsandbriar.phpbb3now.com/ | |||