Cobfoolery - remove shank (1)

Here I am with cobfoolery contest. From the Corn cob pipe grab bag, I use a Missouri Meerschaum Legend to make some cobfoolery. How to do it?

In a forum of pipe smokers, I read that heating or cooling the pipe help. A guy says that only using pure brute force. That`s what we use here!

Using an iron tweezers (and also soften the process using a piece of fabric - not shown in the pictures).

Start rotating and listening the crack of the wood. Using a little more pressure, and rotating again. The glue between the shank and the cob start to show kind of hole.

More pressure and the piece of wood rotating. Finally, using only the hand, I remove the piece of wood. That's it. We have a cob with no shank.

Here the broken shank :(

Recomendations for the future. 

1. Next time I press more softly, but more time to make the process less aggresive. 

2. I will fill shank with some material in order to make more hard, and reuse the shank. Who knows. Today, I don't care but I could have a no more ready to use shank. 

3. I'm doing this process smoking Dunhill My Mixture 965. :D