Missouri Meerschaum Wizard Cobbit Bent Stem Corncob Pipe

Great pipe, great smoker

Literally the best smoking pipe I have. Started out, rough purchase, cracked stem, but seller made good and sent replacement. I will purchase again when I wear this one out. I highly recommend this pipe.

Nice pipe if you want a cheap churchwarden with a big bowl

As the title said I really wanted to love this pipe. Churchwardens are my favorite pipes and the shape of this one was certainly appealing. Unfortunately the company is better known for $12 pipes and they applied the same low standards of production and quality control. The pipe itself is ill designed and if the most cursory of quality control took place this particular example should have never left the factory. Design flaws: - The tenon on the stem is way too short, creating a lot of leverage. - The shank is too skinny, making it way too weak for the sort of leverage the long stem could create. - The chamber capacity is downright ridiculous. The shank should have been mounted higher on the chamber. - The usual ill fitting shank method into the body. You would hope that if they wanted to charge 4x their usual that they would take the time to implement it better. Quality controls: - Ferrule was completely lose. It would fall off if you turned the pipe upside down. - Mortise on the shank too sloopy. Stem was loose. A dab of beeswax fixed that. - Horrendous fit of the stem on the pipe body, with the usual sloppiness you expect on their $12 pipes. The draft hole was not centered creating a lopsided burn. - Excess shank glue on the chamber. - Bent stem. As in crooked to one side. Heck after all that I was still willing to try and make the pipe work, but the shank was cracked. Some of that was probably the design flaw, some the fact that it was shipped, assembled, on a soft envelope. A really bad idea with any pipe let a lone with a long stemmed churchwarden. The only reason this got an extra star is because of the effortless no-questions-asked return policy.

Handsome looking pipe that smokes cool. Seller was prompt.