Who else prefers a cob?

[Tobias Lutz]

I like my cobs (about 25%) of my pipes, but I can't imagine every abandoning briar. In my opinion they serve to offer everything a briar does not, and the briar does the same in respect to them.

[Alligator Gar]

If you looked at my cob to briar ratio you would conclude I favour cobs. And that may be true. Their merits are manifold:

1. Readily available. I bought one at lunch so I could smoke some tobacco a friend sent to the office today.
2. I can smoke goopey, stinky stuff in them and not care.
3. I can clench them like Popeye.
3 1/2. They are light weight, don't exacerbate my TMJ syndrome.
3.99. I can keep them around new in the package for when my kid's bum friends come over and want to smoke a bowl with us.
4. I like the break-in taste.
5. I can use a pipe lighter and not care if it tastes like charcoal starter. That crap ghosts my briars.
6. I'm cheap and I'm from Iowa.

Drawbacks? Ugly as sin with no aesthetic value. That's why I love briar--it's beautiful.

[johnnyflake]

Basically, I am 95% into Cobs and 5% in Meerschaums. After having about 30 briars, in my herd, at one time in my life, I only own one now days and rarely, if ever, smoke it!

[Cool Breeze]

Basically, I am 95% into Cobs and 5% in Meerschaums. After having about 30 briars, in my herd, at one time in my life, I only own one now days and rarely, if ever, smoke it!

Hearing that come from you sir, I feel validated.

Thanks for all the replies guys. I don't hate the few briars I have. I have a beautiful pre-Republic Peterson that I do enjoy. I'm smoking a no-name briar right now that I picked up at a flea market on the cheap. But I probably smoke cobs 10-1.

Maybe it's just because I'm a rookie and cobs are so easy. They don't ghost, so I can pack whatever I'm in the mood for in and not worry about it. It's damn near impossible to make them gurgle, which I do have a problem with in briars. That may be why I lean towards them.

[johnnyflake]

Hearing that come from you sir, I feel validated.

Thanks for all the replies guys. I don't hate the few briars I have. I have a beautiful pre-Republic Peterson that I do enjoy. I'm smoking a no-name briar right now that I picked up at a flea market on the cheap. But I probably smoke cobs 10-1.

Maybe it's just because I'm a rookie and cobs are so easy. They don't ghost, so I can pack whatever I'm in the mood for in and not worry about it. It's damn near impossible to make them gurgle, which I do have a problem with in briars. That may be why I lean towards them.

Thank you for the kind words my friend!