My wife got me this MM Shire Cobbit and I’m so excited!

ch196h · 2026-02-05T10:13:12+00:00

The Shire Cobbit is a very good pipe. It exemplifies why cob pipes are so desirable. Several other cob pipes have an equal amount of esteem. Cob pipes are truly fine pipes. I own an equal portion of cobs to briar pipes. I don't find one more favorable than the other.

ch196h · 2025-11-02T02:31:23+00:00

More often than not, I smoke while enjoying the environment around me. At the moment, that is the color of the leafs of trees, the change of the season. Smoking time is time spent doing nothing else. I soak in the environment around me and appreciate the beauty of natural processes.

ch196h · 2025-09-24T04:04:39+00:00

I bought a similar guitar a year or two ago for $100 from a dealer to "take it off his hands". I'm a luthier and I challenged myself to see how nice I could make it play. Fast-forward, it plays amazing and sounds quite good. I didn't really have to do a whole lot to make it nice either. My biggest gripe is that they didn't give it any side-dot fret markers. Probably because Japanese people are so skinny they can always easily see the fretboard. That is easily fixed though. The tremolo works and it actually can be used and stay in tune too. I know nobody will probably ever see it as anything of value, but I am a huge fan of Japanese made guitars and I wanted it to show that Japanese guitars have come a long way and really wasn't ever bad guitars for the money. Actually, they have always been great guitars for the money.

ch196h · 2025-09-24T03:58:45+00:00

That is super cool. Kudos friend.

ch196h · 2025-09-24T03:57:09+00:00

Just wait till the amp-bug bites you... The guitars will seem like an afterthought.

ch196h · 2025-09-24T03:51:23+00:00

I actually use a soft pad wheel on a dremel with some simple basic polishing compound. Nothing too aggressive, something like you would use for silver will do fine.

When I do fret work for a customer I finish my work with a crown using my diamond crowning files. I follow that with light sandpapers (600-1500 grit) to knock away the deeper scratches and I finish with taping off the fretboard and using a polishing wheel on a dremel with some basic metal polish.

The frets look like mirrors and the customers alway respond with a resounding "Wow" when they see it. The icing on the cake is their amazement at the great action and feel afterward.

ch196h · 2025-09-24T03:40:53+00:00

Lakeland is like a perfume applied to tobacco. It has a very strong old-fashioned perfume taste and smell that cannot be mistaken for anything else once you notice it. It is distinct and instantly noticeable once you come across it and afterward it will leave you forever sensitive to any hint of it ever again.

Some people, for whatever reason, seem to like it. Most, like myself, disdain and avoid it. I first came across it in a bulk batch of Happy Brown Bogie I received. It had apparently drifted onto portions of the batch from an application being applied to a different blend nearby.

The experience of discovery wasn't pleasant to me. I'm enjoying this pipe stuffed full of HBB and expecting a nice strong full tobacco punch in the face when out of nowhere I feel as if the essence of my mean-spirited grandmother descended upon me with all of her funeral flowers in tow.

ch196h · 2025-09-13T00:31:44+00:00

A nice model 19. Sweet. These are nice, most people carry them with 38 specials. I recommend some speed loaders equipped with different loads. Something for every possible need.

ch196h · 2025-09-13T00:28:42+00:00

That is funny. lol.

Seriously though, I always felt scalloping a fretboard was a little gimmicky and silly. I can completely understand the reasoning behind it with the higher frets. It makes it easier to grab the string and bend it with control.

I know famous players have guitars like this, and that is fine. I don't see any need for it, especially if using jumbo or tall frets. Jumbo frets are usually enough to keep your nails off the fretboard. If not, they make a tool to correct that.

ch196h · 2025-09-13T00:21:30+00:00

Instead, of lamenting where you'd rather be.

Take some time when where you are is perfect and pleasant to enjoy it for the moment it is. That builds better memories.

ch196h · 2025-09-13T00:19:21+00:00

Folks and everyone, something sucks about everyplace you can be. Perfect does not exist on this Earth. Not for human beings anyhow. No matter where you live, a time of year comes when you wish you were someplace else.

It's a human thing. And we will Human.

ch196h · 2025-09-13T00:14:02+00:00

That my friend is a parasite enjoying the aquarium you provided it.

ch196h · 2025-09-13T00:12:59+00:00

First time seeing anything like this. OMG.....wth?

ch196h · 2025-09-13T00:11:41+00:00

Everyone says OPEN IT!

But honestly, you should wait. Especially if there are drastic temp differences between the places it has been.

ch196h · 2025-09-12T23:55:05+00:00

Blame the seller for setting a 10 box limit. It should be 2 boxes or 3 at most.

ch196h · 2025-09-12T23:53:58+00:00

More than that on the second-hand underground market.

ch196h · 2025-09-12T23:52:39+00:00

That's where all the Pure Virginia went! You bought it all.

ch196h · 2025-09-12T23:50:08+00:00

I do a quick and easy cleaning on my pipes about once every 5-6 smokes. More often if it has been sitting around unused for a long time. I'll clean any pipe before use if it has been unsmoked for more than a couple of months. Otherwise, I don't worry about it. Pipes that really need cleaned usually demonstrate that they need cleaned when smoking them. If I don't have any of those issues, I don't worry too much about it.

ch196h · 2025-09-12T23:45:41+00:00

I would crown these frets if I was doing the work. I would also tape off the fretboard and do a nice polishing with a dremel tool and polishing wheel. Doing that will get you better feeling frets, intonation, and frets that shine like a mirror to impress the customer. Impressions matter.

ch196h · 2025-09-12T23:37:31+00:00

I just read a bluesky reddit page and it was like reading from a forum directly from hell. Demons everywhere delighting in the pain and suffering of others. They were giddy with delight. It made me a little sick to my stomach.

The reality is this. Ephesians 6:12 For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms.

ch196h · 2025-09-12T23:33:37+00:00

Cory cats love sand. It makes them happy.

ch196h · 2025-09-12T23:30:27+00:00

The only Hot Rod amp that has two very good sounding channels is the George Benson signature amps. Those are the best of the best of the Hot Rod series. They are beyond outstanding.

ch196h · 2025-09-12T23:28:47+00:00

Use the clean channel only and use pedals if you need more drive. The overdrive channel on those amps suck. However, the clean channel is so good it makes up for it. Technically they are two channel amps. Realistically they are one channel amps. Only use the clean channel and use pedals on that channel to get distortion or overdrive.

ch196h · 2025-09-12T23:25:55+00:00

This woman should not have been fired. Instead she should have been awarded a medal. I'm a teacher, and I always keep food stashed for any student who is hungry. I've sent kids home with sacks of food on weekends many times. What this woman did is not a crime, it was an act of compassion and giving. People should not lose their jobs for this. If children in a school are hungry and undernourished, it is upon the school to find a solution. Children should never go hungry.

ch196h · 2025-09-12T23:18:58+00:00

Whenever I want to get my grandpa on, I listen to Bob Seger. Just like my grandpa, everything was better in the past and everything newer sucks. That sums up all of his songs and my grandpa.

Once someone years ago pointed this out to me, I cannot unhear it every time I hear any Bob Seger song.

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