I've posted about Daniel Rutt’s amazing piercings elsewhere , but I thought ModBlog deserved me taking the time to talk to him about them in detail. The story begins just over two years ago when, a week before Christmas 2010, Daniel had Patrick Kielty do the pair of deep achilles piercings using 1.6mm PTFE flexible rods, prescribing the normal simple aftercare of using salt water solution to keep them clean.
Before I talk more about Daniel’s life after leaving the studio, I want to quickly share what Patrick told me about doing the piercing. First he did lots of anatomical study, which lead him to decide that if when he felt for the “sweet spot” he would only continue with the piercing if the tissue was minimal an he was quite certain he wasn’t going to be hitting anything he shouldn’t. Luckily in Dan’s case he could “practically feel [his] thumb and finger touch”, so they went ahead with the calculated risk of skewering him with a needle running between the achilles tendon and the bones of his leg and ankle. From the piercer’s point of view, Patrick described it as something akin to a scaled up handweb, and quite soft to get through.
As you can see, it’s a lot bigger than 14ga now, because every few months he’s stretched it up. Initially he did this by using different sized PTFE rods, which he found extremely painful due to the rods jumping up in size 2mm at a time,squeezing them through the piercings was difficult and uncomfortable. Once Daniel reached 6mm , he gave up on this method and switched to packing the piercing with a whole bunch of small 1mm PTFE rods. Every time he felt ready to stretch he would push another small rod into the middle. It was still slightly uncomfortable, but overall the method worked well and in any case was a big improvement over the larger steps in his initial method. Because of the smaller increases, he spaced them just under a month apart.
I've posted about Daniel Rutt’s amazing piercings elsewhere , but I thought ModBlog deserved me taking the time to talk to him about them in detail. The story begins just over two years ago when, a week before Christmas 2010, Daniel had Patrick Kielty do the pair of deep achilles piercings using 1.6mm PTFE flexible rods, prescribing the normal simple aftercare of using salt water solution to keep them clean.
Before I talk more about Daniel’s life after leaving the studio, I want to quickly share what Patrick told me about doing the piercing. First he did lots of anatomical study, which lead him to decide that if when he felt for the “sweet spot” he would only continue with the piercing if the tissue was minimal an he was quite certain he wasn’t going to be hitting anything he shouldn’t. Luckily in Dan’s case he could “practically feel [his] thumb and finger touch”, so they went ahead with the calculated risk of skewering him with a needle running between the achilles tendon and the bones of his leg and ankle. From the piercer’s point of view, Patrick described it as something akin to a scaled up handweb, and quite soft to get through.
As you can see, it’s a lot bigger than 14ga now, because every few months he’s stretched it up. Initially he did this by using different sized PTFE rods, which he found extremely painful due to the rods jumping up in size 2mm at a time,squeezing them through the piercings was difficult and uncomfortable. Once Daniel reached 6mm , he gave up on this method and switched to packing the piercing with a whole bunch of small 1mm PTFE rods. Every time he felt ready to stretch he would push another small rod into the middle. It was still slightly uncomfortable, but overall the method worked well and in any case was a big improvement over the larger steps in his initial method. Because of the smaller increases, he spaced them just under a month apart.
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