I got this pipe as a freeby with the purchase of another pipe. At first I thought I would do the bare minimum, but I wouldn't have been happy with myself. So I decided to rusticate the carve triangle patterns, which turned out nicely. I was going to leave the thin boarder a natural finish and blacken the newly rusticated triangles, but i just looked bad so i decided to stain the whole thing black, and leave the rim natural. I like how it looks and can't complain one bit.