Rusticated my Bully

[Briar Spirit]

This is a fairly old post I made on the Cubby, but as my site is dying a slow death I am going to post some of my pipe related stuff here and bore you guys half to death. :twisted:

Until I saw a couple of pipes over on SF lately I was perfectly happy with my Bully, he's been a true and valued friend for almost 7 years now, only recently have i come to like Bully mind, long and more than dull story which I wont go into here. Any how, I really fancied the idea of getting myself a new pipe, one that was a little fancy if you follow my meaning, I'd always wanted a really 'good' pipe but of course one thing or another and well it never happened. This of course doesn't give one any sense of happiness or fulfilment, so I was looking at Bully earlier today whilst sipping from his bowl and the obvious dawned on me, why not turn Bully into something a bit special

Here was Bully before I got going this time:

Yeah okay, so bully is a cheap as chips pipe to begin with so wouldn't win any awards for original craftsmanship or design, but he's a rugged little blighter and he was game for a tarting up. I spent 2 1/2 hours working on him with my chisels and sandpaper until I had the kind of effect I felt best suited his stocky yet noble frame. I didn't want him to have a drab old 'samey' all over stain and polish, I had a need to make him look rather more interesting if you like, so I decided to play around with the dyes, I started with the dark brown and worked my way through to the dark red, sanding lightly all over the surface on each application of dye and heavily in random areas on each application as well.

Bully was looking very worn out and knackered from the whole process, despite how bizarre he was looking at that point I knew exactly how he was going to look once the polishing, waxing and buffing was done, and blow me if he aint looking even more handsome than I even expected.


Gather round and have a butchers at the all new BULLY, aint he gorgeous....

 

[BigCasino]

Nice job Kirk! I like that rich brown color better

 

[Briar Spirit]

Thank you, yes, that dye was extraordinary, I was so annoyed when I dropped the bottle, lost the lot, the air was blue for a spell I can tell you. :twisted:

 

[Kyle Weiss]

I like the rusticated band around the shank and the top...not as sure about the bottom rusticating, but that's just my eye. Which, of course, is always right.

Kirk, your site is not dying a slow death. You had the poor thing offline and in "remodel" mode for a while. A website, especially one in a niche market (or saturated one) takes up to a year or even two to hit regular visitors. Don't give up. Keep promoting and patient.

EDIT: I just visited the Cubby, now I see what you're talking about... sheesh. Hope you figure the errors out. :|

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[Briar Spirit]

EDIT: I just visited the Cubby, now I see what you're talking about... sheesh. Hope you figure the errors out. :|

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It's a new one on me mate, it looks like the site has been hacked but not, every other page or so that I viewed was 'derailed' for lack of a better term and replaced with a white page with black text saying "the nightrider never sleeps". Some pages the posts were all jumbled nonsense, other pages the post contents were replaced with vile and disgusting pornographic images, one post simply said "F*&^ YOU KIRK". I've got too much to cope with in my own personal life right now, I just found out my only remaining family member in the UK died Friday just gone, on top of everything else that's happened recently, this weirdness on my site is just too much. I have obviously really upset someone somewhere, how and why I have no idea. I have't got the emotional strength to wage a battle with an unknown assailant, I just don't need the added stress, there's no point re-opening it, who ever has got a hard-on for me isn't going to just stop, best to just let them win and move on, I can't tell you how devastated I am about this.

 

[Kyle Weiss]

Weird. :| PS...try to keep the "effs" on this side of acceptable...I know you're upset, but rules is rules 'round here.

In any case, some pretty bored, sour em-effer must have gotten his feathers ruffled, or it's just random kids muckin' up the joint. It's a tragedy you had to go the route you did, but meh...we'll adopt ya.

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[Briar Spirit]

Weird. :| PS...try to keep the "effs" on this side of acceptable...I know you're upset, but rules is rules 'round here.

In any case, some pretty bored, sour em-effer must have gotten his feathers ruffled, or it's just random kids muckin' up the joint. It's a tragedy you had to go the route you did, but meh...we'll adopt ya.

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Edited.

 

[Kyle Weiss]

Edited.

(...thank the F$!$@** out of ya...) :lol:

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[Briar Spirit]

Edited.

(...thank the F$!$@** out of ya...) :lol:

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You saucy flirt. :twisted:

 

[Kyle Weiss]

You tarted bully. :heart:

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[luckybro2]

How did I do?

 

[Briar Spirit]

Wow, you did an awesome job there luckbro2, a vast improvement and a superb pipe now, damn, we could almost start up a Rusticate your Bully club. :lol:

 

[Kyle Weiss]

Lucky, the original rustication was a disfiguration, what you did churched up that bulldog something swell. Excellent job.

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[luckybro2]

"disfiguration" described it well. It looked like someone got carried away with a drill bit.
I was happy to see that the rustication and darker stain also covered up some of the crack on the shank where it meets the stem.
Now I'm not so embarassed to smoke that pipe, in front of others. LOL
Thanks goes out to Kirk for helping me see the light.

 

[Briar Spirit]

covered up some of the crack on the shank where it meets the stem.

You will need to do something about the crack, if you don't it will only get worse over time, eventually it may become unusable. If you're from the states there are several sites there you can mail order bands, fitting a band will save you a lot of heart ache in the not so distant future.

 

[luckybro2]

Thanks Kirk
I should have banded that pipe before rusticating it. Don't know if it will work now but I'll order a band and give it a try. For now, I put shrink wrap on it as a temporary splint.

 

[gravel]

I misread the title to read rusticated my belly. I'm relieved.

 

[Briar Spirit]

Thanks Kirk
I should have banded that pipe before rusticating it. Don't know if it will work now but I'll order a band and give it a try. For now, I put shrink wrap on it as a temporary splint.

It'll work mate, I have a rusticated Peterson small Billiard which is silver banded, no worries there at all.