How To Make A Pipe In Ceramics Class

It is then dried and fired.

How to make a pipe in ceramics class.

You will learn how to make a tube where the water sits a percolator to diffuse the smoke. Have you seen how their made from start to finish. And don t tell me not to smoke blah blah blah i don t wanna hear it it s not gonna change my mind. The easier clay pipe to make is a clay bowl that can easily be pinched to shape and a short stem applied to the side with a rod used to make a hole through the stem into the bowl and a socket opened to receive the long stem.

I tried to copy this mug design that also had a bowl built in because i thought it was very cool. This reminds me of a short story from my hs days. I wanna make a pipe in ceramics but i have to disguise it or it ll get thrown away. Most clay bodies will work for making pipes though i believe those elaborate bavarian pipes with metal lids are made from glazed stoneware.

The last pipe maker retired and gives his last demonstration how to make clay smoking pipes. The art of making clay smoking pipes dies out. I d say any clay that can withstand firing can deal with the gentle heat that slow burning tobacco generates but non vitrified clays in general withstand heat shock better. Then a wood or amber mouthpiece and long stem is drilled and carved to fit in the socket.

This is a basic beginner video on how to make a ceramic water pipe. I also took a ceramics class senior year and like many of my super edgy peers decided to make a smoking device. Most of all that includes showing my mold. I was thinking i could make a kangaroo and use the pouch as a bowl and the tail as the mouth piece.