Lol, that rust is the best part of the bit. “Sweet iron” was popular in Western bits forever, and now the english side discovered it too
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Help me understand what you mean? I just ordered this bit and was figuring I could wrap it in sealtex if the coating wore off.
The coating gets rusty from the iron and horses love it. Makes it taste sweet supposedly—no need to wrap unless its your horse’s preference.
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Oh, that is good to know! I probably would have thought the bit was bad at that point.
This.
But I’ve found with this bit, it doesn’t rust evenly like the old sweet iron bits. It gets kind of rough in texture.
My horse doesn’t find it to be a problem and has used the same one for years. I’ve recommended the bit to other people and they’ve said they had to throw it in the trash after a few months of use. 
Sorry it was the bombers happy tongue, specifically the plastic blue mouth piece. I think it was blue, it was a few years ago.
I thought they only made them in sweet iron or titanium? Not plastic?
The “Bomber Blue” is a composite nylon (and sounds like what I and @Jealoushe had). Advertised as lightweight, little flex, softer on the mouth, blah blah, etc.
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Oh, interesting! I should have paid closer attention to the different products. This makes much more sense regarding the sores. I think the product I mentioned, the Happy Tongue, does not come in the nylon. That’s a different ported bit that comes in that material, but I will certainly avoid that option regardless!
Oh it probably does. Here:
Same bit, same description, different materials. Anyways purchase at your own risk, per the Bomber rep.
They have all the cheekpeiece options available.
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You’re absolutely right! I never went on the actual website- just different shops, and Chatgpt did me dirty with material options! 
Good to know regarding the Bombers Blue bit. It’s the first and so far only Bombers bit that I have, and I use it pretty sparingly with one horse.
I have the happy tongue in a D ring and have used it as my trail ride bit for one horse with a sensitive mouth (I find it can be more direct communication than a 3 joint, and the D rings are quite large for when he wants to bully me as far as what direction we are going). I’ve also ridden a strong jumper in it who was very particular about what kind of mouth pressure he’d tolerate (while also pulling your arms off…great combo). With the sweet iron material, I’ve not had any issues with mouth injuries. And it’s also wearing totally normal to me. I have an ancient sweet iron Myler as comparison.
Yeah, the Bomber Blue mouthpiece is pretty crap. Mine ended up with sharp ridges. I ended up wrapping it in latex to make it usable.
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Bomber Blue and the Bomber Happy Tongue are two bits out of my gigantic collection that I sold. I could not find a horse that went well in either.
The Bomber Ported Barrel I’ve had several horses really like.
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