Scratched My Briar

[Goofeyfoot]

Thanks all!

 

[Goofeyfoot]

I recovered an example with a shellac finish with extended welding. Eliminated all the residue with 600/800 grit sandpaper, finished with polishing abrasive paste, and applied carnauba wax.
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Nice work!

 

[jhowell]

skaters used the term the same way.

It originated as a baseball term for a left-handed pitcher - they start with the "wrong" foot on the rubber.

 

[jhowell]

You might want to try "Formby's reamalgamator"

 

[Chasing Embers]

It originated as a baseball term for a left-handed pitcher - they start with the "wrong" foot on the rubber.

That's southpaw. Goofy foot was coined in the '50s for the way the Disney character Goofy was riding a surf board.

 

[gamzultovah]

Somehow, a couple of scratches appeared on the back of the bowl of a new briar pipe I have. Should I refinish it to try to eliminate that? I’ve never done anything like this before so pardon the lack of knowledge on my part.

Goofeyfoot… are you a skater?

 

[sablebrush52]

I recovered an example with a shellac finish with extended welding. Eliminated all the residue with 600/800 grit sandpaper, finished with polishing abrasive paste, and applied carnauba wax.
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That's a suspicious looking tattoo on the palm of your hand...

 

[Ag®o]

That's a suspicious looking tattoo on the palm of your hand...

You are an observer!
Apart from the girls I met over time, and my current wife, no one had ever been interested in this... Forty years ago, in a diner, on that palm a person wrote me a sentence accompanied by that little heart ... That same evening I had to leave for Friuli, where at that time I was doing military service, and in the following days I realized that while the sentence had obviously disappeared with the washing, that little heart strangely resisting.
I thought it was a nice thing to have a friend go over it with a needle and ink. In those years there were several guys in the barracks who dabbled with self-made tools consisting of a Bic pen, a needle and a battery-powered motor.
The following Monday, the author of the sentence went off in a car accident, she was wearing headphones on her motorbike, while the light turned green she did not hear the siren of the fire trucks coming from the cross road.
This is the story of Sara's heart, sorry if I was long-winded.

 

[jhowell]

That's southpaw. Goofy foot was coined in the '50s for the way the Disney character Goofy was riding a surf board.

All I can say is I heard the term first used in the 50's to describe a left handed pitcher - long before I ever heard of surfing or skateboarding...