What The Heck?

[hall222]

Smoke away!

 

[crashthegrey]

Common form of rustication. Kaywoodie Birkshire does it, along with many lines from other brands. Just hiding a pit with an "artistic flair" that some love and some hate.

 

[Sobrbiker]

For under 40 bucks i bought it, no plans on returning it.

So, as a completely new guy with no history of collecting I’m just over here wondering what kind of input your looking for?

To this untrained eye it looks like a pretty generic bent pipe that may or may not smoke amazingly that’s got a couple spots somebody hacked out and tried to make look cool with a torch.

The only person that’s gotta like it is you…

 

[LeafErikson]

gnarly and ugly!

 

[hoosierpipeguy]

If you're okay with it, so be it. I no longer see the logic of adding pipes for the sake of count. I'd rather have a dozen great pipes than a thousand mediocre ones. But I've been there too, to each their own.

 

[anotherbob]

Here's some ugly rustications with some gnarly tooling marks for you. Personally I don't mind them if the pipes smoke well.
Top two are El Morjane Algerians, bottom is an Albanian Lorenzo.
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I kind of like it. Also I agree fugly does equal less worries.

 

[anotherbob]

Common form of rustication. Kaywoodie Birkshire does it, along with many lines from other brands. Just hiding a pit with an "artistic flair" that some love and some hate.

my brebbia has really wonderfully done beautiful rustication of this sort.

 

[beefeater33]

Looks like a rat or mouse gnawed on it................

 

[Alejo R.]

In the second photo you can clearly see the crack that was wanted to hide.

 

[agnosticpipe]

I like random rustication, because for me it adds to the uniqueness of a pipe. It's more one of a kind. I mean, all pipes are unique one from another for the most part, but this just adds some odd character to a pipe. It's going to be subjective for sure, but it's your pipe, if you like it that's all that's needed. You could go for something VERY spot rusticated like this E.Oslo, which was a sub line of pipes by American carver Micoli. Not everybody's cup of tea for sure, but if you've seen his main line of pipes you can see how this is rather mild. I have found it comfortable to hold and it smokes very well. I think there is another example of one of these on SPC's American estate pipes right now! Getcha one!