[shannensmall]

These are my 2 MM Generals. The one on the left is my VA dedicated cob and the one on the right is my English blend cob. I don't smoke very many English blends so it doesn't get much use. The Virgina Cob on the other hand, gets smoked about 4 times a day, give or take. I bought both of these at the same time back in Jan.

Other side of both pipes.

 

[JeffinChi]

Not only is the color different, but the sides appear slightly presssed in. Could be just an illusion caused by the darker color, but it seems bent inwards just above the shank to the top of the bowl; like an hourglass.

anyone else?

 

[drastic_quench]

Awesome. Good for you for smoking Generals. Short of the freehand, I think that's the best cob they make. Mine is about halfway in between the two pictured. I've been meaning to buy a few more plus a forever stem.

 

[FiveStar]

I'm a big fan of the bent danish egg, or at least that's the most comfy shape in hand and teeth to me. I've got one that I've been meaning to put up some pics of. It's really got a nice patina now, and I really noticed it when I bought another for a buddy of mine. The new pipe is nearly white, but this one has a nice golden brown hue. My favorite part is that the pipe smells like the inside of an old B&M if you sniff the outside of the bowl. Just a nice sweet tobacco essence.

Great thread! I'll try and get some pics up of my old friend soon.

 

[shannensmall]

Yes by all means, lets see them purty cobs fellas!

DQ the Generals are by far my favorite cobs. I like my McArthur, but only for novelty reasons. I can't comment on the freehands as I've yet to own one...soon one will be in my collection.

Jeff, you are not seeing things. It started taking on that kind of sunken in shape not long after it started coloring up. It didn't look like that when I fist got it. I have no clue as to what caused that to happen.

 

[BrewShooter]

I smoked a Country Gentleman in college, in retrospect I had NO idea how to smoke it, and think I have to keep one in my collection now just for nostalgic reasons. I also like the bent Legend. It works great when I'm puttering around the garage.

 

[CWL]

Careful with that VA cob. Looks to me like you are heating it up at the black portion and you may be on your way to a burnthrough. That's want happened to my MacArthur. I smoked aros and admittedly let it get hot. It was neat watch ing it develop that blackening and then one day, the lacquer start to bubble and then I had a holy pipe!

 

[InsidiousTact]

I try to sand the lacquer off my cobs, I prefer to keep it as natural as possible. But, if you smoke hot you smoke hot, and it'd probably still burn through.

 

[shannensmall]

*hangs head in shame*

I do tend to smoke a bit too hot with my cobs. Eh they are cheap so I'm not as careful. I'll be sure to keep an eye on it. Thanks

 

[B.L. Sims]

Glad im not the only one who appreciates this. Ive got 2 MM "Country Gentlemen" pipes that I just cant bring myself to pitch because they have colored so well.

 

[FiveStar]

Here are some pics of my favorite cob! It was the first pipe I ever bought, and it was the only one I smoked for the first 3-4 months of the pipe obsession. I don't smoke it as much now, but when I do it's like coming home. It's the pipe I use to try new tobaccos, because this is the best they can ever taste or smoke.

It's a bent great dane egg. Clenches like a dream, feels natural in the hand, and produces billows of smoke. I let a very thick cake form in it, eventually to the point that I couldn't get my pinky in there. I've since reamed it back, but left a nice thick conical cake in the bottom of the bowl so that the airway now meets in a big mass of cake like the bottom of a briar. Though some caution against cake in a cob, I'm planning on doing this to all my cobs. At the very least, dig out any dottle after your smoke, but shake a good bit of ash around in the bowl, allowing it to coat the voids between the bowl walls and the pine airway. Eventually the bottom of the bowl will fill with a plaster-like pipe mud of ash and moisture, and be rock solid!

See how you can tell where the bottom plug has colored around where the airway protrudes into the bowl? Super cool!

 

[shannensmall]

Very nice Landis. The MM Great Danes are also my other fav cobs I have in my collection.

 

[InsidiousTact]

That looks soo awesome! Great, now I want an egg cob... Oh heck, maybe I'll buy one of each shape in bent and straight... There's something wrong with me!!