How to Make Ceramic Pipes

A quick tutorial video on how to make ceramic pipes. There are so many types of pipes you can make with clay. This video will show you 3 quick and easy ways to make ceramic pipes so you can start building them on your own.
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[@josierosie21]

Im so ready to make fun designs with this pipes!!

[@eccentric_one_]

Definitely doing it.....💙

[@timmypierce1110]

You make some nice looking stuff i really liked the pipes and bongs lol

[@lowco_ceramics]

Thanks so much!!

[@Atlas_B]

Brilliant!

[@spookyyjazz]

great tutorial!! & you’re the cutest ever!! ❤

[@lowco_ceramics]

😊😊

[@camila_2055]

if i don’t have dry clay to make the glue will just water work??

[@lowco_ceramics]

Yeah! It has worked for me in the past or you can take a little bit of wet clay and water and mix it around to make slip.

[@user-wr2rf3vz1f]

Since I have always smoked from already purchased pipes now that making my own im just getting the grip of the pipe mechanism, so the all the holes must be connected to the center of the pipe wich is below the bowl hole right? Like the carb hole must be conected to the bowl hole that leads also to the stem hole

[@lowco_ceramics]

Yep you are correct!

[@user-wr2rf3vz1f]

@@lowco_ceramics thank you! Greetings from Mexico city

[@sabrinabennett1728]

How do fire without a kiln?? And how would you paint/add color to them?

[@lowco_ceramics]

You need a kiln to fire them. I paint the top with glaze, add glaze to the inside, but I leave the bottom unglazed so it doesn't stick to the kiln when firing.

[@thedutchest]

Clay pipes that are intended for actual use aren't glazed or painted! White Earthenware clay is the safest and most common type used for smoking pipes and food contact surfaces. To change clay into a fired ceramic (pottery) to need to get to at least 1,500-1,600 degrees F. Most clays you really need to go to 1,800. Then it will be earthenware pottery or bisqueware if it is higher firing clay. Home ovens typically only go to 550 F. Above this most ovens would start to fail. Pizza ovens get to 700-800 F. This will just dry the clay. It will not be pottery (a ceramic). It will not get harder, just more brittle. It is just dry compressed powder after 500 degrees. When clay is heated enough to become earthenware it is transformed. It will never be clay again, even if you ground it to a powder. It would be what we call grog. It is sometimes used as an additive to a clay body. When clay is fired to a proper temperature it becomes a sort of stone. The chemically bound water is driven off. This is different than the water you can feel. It is water makes it clay and not rock dust. Then the clay particles begin to melt. This is changed sintering. After than it is a ceramic, not clay. @lowco_ceramics

[@sabrinabennett1728]

@@thedutchest thank you so much! It was very helpful!!

[@lowco_ceramics]

@@thedutchest they definitely should be glazed to keep them clean

[@autumnkloetzke7698]

Is it safe to smoke out of air dry clay without a glaze?

[@lowco_ceramics]

I dont think so

[@ShannaeJ]

I think it has to be food safe! (So, fired in the kiln)

[@cadmiumeye01]

what size is the hole in the bottom of the bowl where the herb sits?

[@lowco_ceramics]

You kind of have to eyeball it. I looked at a pipe I already had and made a hole the similar size

[@dylanhernandez5566]

What kind of kiln do I need?

[@Rossanderson-zm7ck]

Depends on how desperate you are you can look up alternative options using charcoal or just a really hot fire

[@sionfumaitlapipe]

Hi ! I'm a pipe smoker in France. Could you tell me how to clean such a pipe so that I can have the ashes out of the part below ?

[@lowco_ceramics]

Hey! I just clean mine like I clean glass pipes. Soak them in rubbing alcohol with some salt. Should get all the ashes out.

[@sionfumaitlapipe]

@@lowco_ceramics Ok, thank you. Doesn't damage them or sthg ?

[@thedutchest]

@@sionfumaitlapipe you can throw clay pipes in a fire to clean them

[@sionfumaitlapipe]

@@thedutchest That has to be !

[@77cricker]

Have you ever made multi-chambered pipes, with lids?

[@lowco_ceramics]

I didn’t even know multi chambered pipes existed. I’ll have to look into it

[@dazingamaine4318]

just discovered your channel cool name. was wondering what difference different types of clay make? have loads of red clay. and 3 other types. probably will make one of each ) have a nice day

[@lowco_ceramics]

Not sure the differences in clay. Might need to just try each one out. Enjoy!

[@ariadnabernado2073]

how do you clean them i am wondering

[@lowco_ceramics]

You can clean them the same as regular glass pipes

[@1FitChick4U]

How does the flower not fall out of a chillum?

[@cutestshorts101]

It's the way you hold it - between your pinky and your ring finger blowhole up

[@bigbonehead2649]

If you don’t have a kiln what clay should you use to make a pipe

[@lowco_ceramics]

Kiln fired clay is the only kind of clay you should be using for pipes. Air dry clay or clay baked in the oven won't be safe for pipes.

[@oliviam1115]

Hello, why isnt it safe to use air dry clay?

[@ShannaeJ]

@@oliviam1115 a pipe needs to be food-safe to use. So it has to be kiln fire clay. Air-dry clay isn’t food safe.

[@thebiggrouch]

I want to make weed pipes out of clay to sell

[@lowco_ceramics]

You definitely should!