Now you have an interesting wooden bead! If you like your wooden bead you can leave it as such and perhaps add it to a necklace. So i just removed the wood down to a slimmer profile than the two ends and boom! (third picture) I was still left with a large chunk in the middle. Then i went into shaping the mouthpiece, and just formed a smaller ball. i then proceeded to make a large ball shape on the end. (look at the pictures for this to make sense).įirst i took the blank and divided it into thirds, i used my dremmel to carve the grooves you see in the first picture. Here's how i made this spoon pipe using my pneumatic dremmel with a wood carving bit on it. :) Though i suggest reading through it first. Also be sure not to make the wood too thin near the big hole (leaks are bad).įrom here what you do is up to you, just re-join me for the bowl making process in a while. just be sure to have an idea of where you're going and give yourself guidelines.īe sure to leave yourself enough space in the bowl section over the main hole to actually create a bowl. You can get to work with your knife carving something out. and i know he always smokes through his supply in a day or two if he uses things with big bowls so i made a smaller herb conserving bowl. i know he likes to rip it hard so i put a massive carb hole in there. (don't put all your bongs in one basket! haha) i know he likes smooth flowing designs, so i tried to mimic a common glass spoon pipe. I made this one for a friend of mine who broke all of his glass smoking utensils when he put them all into one box and tripped while moving them. Right here is where you can truly make it a custom pipe for yourself! Envision the pipe in your hand, envision smoking out of it. you can do whatever you feel like! you can make one like mine, carve patterns into it, whittle an animal, make it shaped however you want. Now you have a nice hunk of wood from which to make a pipe. Then using your knife, remove the bark unless your pipe design is going to incorporate it. (i mean it is your pipe, this is where you start to get creative and make it your own!) but if you want some funky angled ends on your pipe then go for it. Then square up the ends and cut your hunk of branch into your desired pipe length (your maximum pipe size is slightly less than double the length your large drill bit protrudes from your drill but it's far easier to make it slightly shorter than your drill bit, you'll see what i mean in a minute.) I used a mitor saw for this, but i am very fortunate to have a decked out wood shop. if you place your knife at the base of the branch and whack the back of your blade with another branch chunk it'll do nicely. So take a knife or your pruning saw or in my case, a band saw, and trim off all the little branches. You will want to transform this into a usable piece of lumber. You can either use drillbits, a step bit, a pocket knife, or in my case again, a dremmel tool.Īlright, now we have a chunk of branch. Which i will describe in more depth momentarily.
When it comes time to make your bowl there's several ways to do it. Lastly and most importantly, you will need a branch from a tree. A pruning saw for harvesting a branch from a tree. (unless it's for carving intricate patterns) just use a knife. (or whatever you have really, long as it gets the job done.) If you have one of those teeny tiny hobby dremmels, please don't use these, they will break. What i used for this particular project (and for the less patient ones among you), A pneumatic dremmel tool. I often find these are much more sentimental pieces.) You will put a lot of thought and energy into the pipe itself this way and you can bet it will return the favor. This choice is for the patient ones among you. A SHARP knife (your main wood removal tool. eventually the ash and resin build up will protect it) Keep in mind this will burn out a bit being a wooden pipe so the hole will get bigger. A small drill bit (for drilling the hole in the bottom of the bowl, you can tweak this as you see fit but i recommend a bit the size of a pencil lead. about pencil sized i find works best but you can tweak this as you see fit.) A large drill bit ( for drilling main hole/carb. (or drill press, or anything to make a hole really, just depends how patient you are)
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