Hahahahaha! I’m smoking a Derry 408 right now and was just thinking how I should say it has “butter knife rustication.” It smokes great, but pretty damned ugly….in a good way.
Seriously? Rustication Gone Awry?
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Now I'm trying to think of a rustication that really looked fantastic, and I'm coming up short.
The really good ones are indistinguishable from a decent blast. Well, from a bit of a distance, anyway.
I dig the pete rustication on select pipes. Maybe not that particular one.
At this very moment I am smoking this Vauen Nest so I can’t say I oppose that kind of rustication. I think back in the day the Germans sent someone over to the master Custombilt rusticator in the USA to learn their techniques for their Nest line.
It's clearly subjective since many people have already stated they like it. Personally, I think it's hideous.
I like Peterson Pipes, but have never been a huge fan of their rustication styles. Been enjoying the descriptions (pineapple, butter knife, etc.) 
"Beaver bites"I like Peterson Pipes, but have never been a huge fan of their rustication styles. Been enjoying the descriptions (pineapple, butter knife, etc.)
It just occurred to me that the rustication of this pipe:
looks just like the pits of a morel mushroom!
looks just like the pits of a morel mushroom!
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From Peterson Pipe Notes:
“Pineapple” Rustication on a Founder’s Edition, 2015 POY
So here it is: just about as low as it could go, a distinct aesthetic decline from hand to machine rustication. This POY and the ones that followed it in 2017 and 2018 used the same process. No wonder the craftsmen in Sallynoggin were excited to bring back in-house, hand-carved rustication!
“Pineapple” Rustication on a Founder’s Edition, 2015 POY
So here it is: just about as low as it could go, a distinct aesthetic decline from hand to machine rustication. This POY and the ones that followed it in 2017 and 2018 used the same process. No wonder the craftsmen in Sallynoggin were excited to bring back in-house, hand-carved rustication!
Derry Rustic B60, 2016
There was one very bright spot in machine rustication during the Late Dublin era: the first release of “Killer B” Derry Rustic in 2016. It was an inspired move at K&P, clearing out the remarkable B shapes inventory by outfitting the bowls in army mounts with striated acrylic mocha stems to accentuate the acarmel and black stain work. The pineapple effect seemed to disappear and the entire pipe become something organic and connected. I think this is because of both the color palette and the lines the eye sees: smokey wraiths along the mocha stem which funnel into the nickel of the ferrule and are transformed into the cloud puffs of the rustic pattern, all of which is heightened by the hot foil silver P on the stem.
The Derry Rustic release was a poignant moment for Pete Geeks at the time as we said goodbye to the stunning, incredible shapes of the B catalog, most of which would never again be issued. To be sure, some shapes were “quaints,” meaning unusual and/or perhaps difficult to hold, yet several were genuine extensions and expansions of the Peterson design language and said “Kapp & Peterson” as well or better than a number of older shapes from the catalog. A testament, perhaps, to the powerful hold of this first release and the B shapes: you rarely see them on eBay.
(Peterson Pipe Notes #267)
Other than Savinelli's Capri rustication, Alexey Kharlamov's rustication is the only one I'd accept on a pipe.
I do prefer this version to the pineapple style. It is actually a pretty good looking pipe overall, even if I prefer more of an Italian style rustication (I love Radice's Rind) . The army/spigot mounts are one of my favorite things about Peterson Pipes, both in form and function, and that stem is beautiful. I'd smoke it.