Bulldogs, fine. I have a couple.
But really, wouldn't a Labrador be cool? Help me design a Labrador pipe. I have a block of briar.
I'll work with general descriptions, no problem. Be nice if we could form some consensus about things like what would a Labrador pipe's
- stem style be?
- shank?
- chamber dimensions?
- Length?
How do we get a pipe shape to abstractly represent my favorite breed? (My nick is actually a tribute to one of my most gentlemanly studs, "Piper Cheyenne Twelfth-Pup." My favorite Lab right now is crazy with energy, but extremely smart. "Shyper" was dignified, serious, and dedicated. I may have only had one other dog who was a better hunter, Dakota Sun Catcher. IMPOSSIBLE retrieves! Genius retriever! But she was also a stubborn old bitch. She sometimes told me to go to hell and did her own thing out there.
I want a pipe designed as a tribute to these dogs, yet I'm not settled on what that should be.
Abstract. Not a sculpture, not a caricature of a dog, not a "dog's head." But something exemplifying the best traits of a Labrador Retriever that you could sort of "see" in a pipe shape.
Color is easy. I've had black, yellow and chocolate labs. I favor yellow. (Cheyenne was yellow; Dakota was a "Dudley" -- double recessive, meaning, she had chocolate lab accents and was sired by a chocolate but was yellow).
Their intelligent brown eyes might be a representable feature in the finish. Shiny, glossy, deep brown.
Forehead lines... well, see, depends on American Lab or English if you go with a sharp cut forehead or slant/slope forehead.
Bodies vary, too. Long slender legs (seeing the shank and stem here) or shorter-legged, stout body.
Rusticated represents the longer coats of some I've had, but most were real short hair, like my current Black Lab...
Don't know.
Help?
But really, wouldn't a Labrador be cool? Help me design a Labrador pipe. I have a block of briar.
I'll work with general descriptions, no problem. Be nice if we could form some consensus about things like what would a Labrador pipe's
- stem style be?
- shank?
- chamber dimensions?
- Length?
How do we get a pipe shape to abstractly represent my favorite breed? (My nick is actually a tribute to one of my most gentlemanly studs, "Piper Cheyenne Twelfth-Pup." My favorite Lab right now is crazy with energy, but extremely smart. "Shyper" was dignified, serious, and dedicated. I may have only had one other dog who was a better hunter, Dakota Sun Catcher. IMPOSSIBLE retrieves! Genius retriever! But she was also a stubborn old bitch. She sometimes told me to go to hell and did her own thing out there.
I want a pipe designed as a tribute to these dogs, yet I'm not settled on what that should be.
Abstract. Not a sculpture, not a caricature of a dog, not a "dog's head." But something exemplifying the best traits of a Labrador Retriever that you could sort of "see" in a pipe shape.
Color is easy. I've had black, yellow and chocolate labs. I favor yellow. (Cheyenne was yellow; Dakota was a "Dudley" -- double recessive, meaning, she had chocolate lab accents and was sired by a chocolate but was yellow).
Their intelligent brown eyes might be a representable feature in the finish. Shiny, glossy, deep brown.
Forehead lines... well, see, depends on American Lab or English if you go with a sharp cut forehead or slant/slope forehead.
Bodies vary, too. Long slender legs (seeing the shank and stem here) or shorter-legged, stout body.
Rusticated represents the longer coats of some I've had, but most were real short hair, like my current Black Lab...
Don't know.
Help?