I have managed to get and gut yet another new cob. Fortunately there is a cure that will keep this pipe smoking perfectly, perhaps for decades. It is called pipe mud, a sort of putty made from finely powdered cigar ash and the tiniest bit of water or spit. It easily fills cracks or holes inside clay, briar or corncob pipes and, after a few smokes, becomes hard like rock. Strong, like bull. Tough, like SeAL.
Anyhow I wanted to thanks cigars for becoming pipe mud without whose help I would have tossed some much loved pipes over the years. Remarkable stuff that not-pipers might not have heard about. It seems unfair you cigarist people can't shave pieces off a pipe and somehow stick it on stogies to stop them from unwrapping or to fill gaps in split wrappers once they start to crap out. Whatever. Life is not fair.
So, again, thank you cigars for being there when I need you. :tranq:
Peace.
Out.
