Here a worker drills the corn cob bowl for it's stem. Today the stems are made from wooden dowels fitted with a plastic bit, but originally they were made from river reed. This is how they were made when Samuel Clemons (Mark Twain) was enjoying his. Did you know that he gave the Missouri Meerschaum Corn Cob Pipe Company its name?The "Aristocob" pipe was manufactured from the 1960's by Al Cobb Corp, and into the early 1980's by Missouri Meerschaum. It featured a replaceable corn cob core in an aluminum Art Deco bowl. We've retired our old Aristocob.com site, where we offered sweet smoking factory-fresh Missouri Meerschaum Corn Cob Pipes, but I still smoke them daily and am happy to curate links to my favorites on Amazon.
Boring a Missouri Meerschaum Corn Cob Pipe for it's Stem
Here a worker drills the corn cob bowl for it's stem. Today the stems are made from wooden dowels fitted with a plastic bit, but originally they were made from river reed. This is how they were made when Samuel Clemons (Mark Twain) was enjoying his. Did you know that he gave the Missouri Meerschaum Corn Cob Pipe Company its name?
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