Quote Originally Posted by Emperor Zurg View Post
I've never really cared for the haphazard heel in a cob. At the rate I smoke it takes just forever for the nooks and crannies to fill in and develop a halfway decent spherical bottom like a briar... so since this was such a nice pipe and unsmoked to boot, I decided to remedy the situation by making my own heel out of a 3/4 Cherrywood dowel.
Well... you clean out yer cobs with an air hose. That probably (DEFINATELY...hehe) is why yer cobs don't fill in and form a nice heel.

Anyhoo... ya did a bang-up job. Even if ya didn't need to do it, ya did a wonderful job of it as always. I'm impressed with all yer projects and yer craftsmanship.