Mr Beardsley wrote: ↑Mon Feb 04, 2019 6:50 pm
Kevin Keith wrote: ↑Mon Feb 04, 2019 6:37 pm
Bruyere_Royale wrote: ↑Mon Feb 04, 2019 8:39 am
I'm holding out for a corndog too, they stick to the excuse that they don't have cobs large enough, that's BS considering all the new stuff they have put out.
Mr Beardsley wrote: ↑Mon Feb 04, 2019 6:07 pm
I've never had one of the corn dogs nor seen one in person but they look like a pretty small pipe to me. Certainly not one of the huge mummert Rhodesian bulldog saucer things. I also call BS on the "we don't have cobs large enough" excuse
They are small, no bigger than Legend sized. They could make it easy on themselves and use diamond/square shaped wood shanks instead of cobs. Whatever the reason, they sure don't want to make any.
It has to be dollars and cents. They're willing to pay for the labor on their silly reverse calabash things as a one off (per year) deal but don't want to bring in any additional bodies or machines to churn out the dogs
That is the most likely answer. I bet they still have the machines though. Who in the world would need or want them besides the only corn cob pipe maker in the world! I think it comes down to they just don't want to do it.
And besides corn dogs, they should still make all those great pipes in that catalog. Those hickory pipes are awesome. Reed stemmed cobs. So many choices back then.