Homemade clay bowl help

SexRaiinboaz · 03-29-2011, 03:49 PM

I need to make a clay bowl... I have the materials, but I have NO experience in making bowls. I just buy em xD my friend wants one and I wanted to give her one for her birthday. Any help on how to make one?

farmergiles · 03-29-2011, 03:53 PM

Where's AL?

Edit moved to inquiring minds

SexRaiinboaz · 03-29-2011, 04:17 PM

?

farmergiles · 03-29-2011, 04:25 PM

Sorry, that was a bit cryptic.

Welcome SexRaiinboaz.

What are the materials you have?

Xil · 03-29-2011, 04:29 PM

ii would start with chillums, easier to make

SexRaiinboaz · 03-29-2011, 04:33 PM

I have clay, water, and a stick. It's sort of pitiful. I know a guy that can fire it.

ChiefBongWater · 03-29-2011, 07:42 PM

lol I used to make clay bowls back in highschool and sell them to people who couldnt find any glass. I found it easiest to make sherlocks. I used the sculpting clay that would harden in the oven. Basically I wrapped clay around a pencil, slid the pencil out and then formed a sherlock shape with a bowl on the end.

If your making a bowl out of clay i wouldnt expect great quality.

Xil · 03-29-2011, 08:24 PM

we used to make make shift pipes out of river clay then wrap em in tinfoil and fire them in the bonfire. they never lasted long, extremely brittle, but it was fun.

all i can really suggest is trial and error, no specific technique. a clay steamroller would be cool if you could get it to work

ChiefBongWater · 03-29-2011, 09:57 PM

I kinda miss making homemade bongs n stuff. My best were the giant gatorade bottles & big orange juice bottles. Burn a hole, stick in the pen, duct tape a socket to the end

Try to make better ones than your friends...

But those days are gone and now i have a 200 $ glass piece

**SageTree** · 03-30-2011, 06:00 AM

A chillum is pretty common shape for clay.... there isn't an arm or bend to break, so you're actually increasing the quality by keeping it simple.

And, as that goes.... it sounds like you already have everything you need right now.

Chillums are super old school and these dudes called Sadhus, are fellas who don't have much and they wonder all over India, so you know it's got some durability

adventure · 03-30-2011, 09:37 AM

the chillium is by far the most badass, and its all in how you hold it

**SageTree** · 03-30-2011, 10:13 AM

It's the piece I do 99% of my smoking out of.

SexRaiinboaz · 03-30-2011, 07:22 PM

Alright... Thank you

Xil · 03-30-2011, 07:27 PM

Nice job on the sadhu shoutout sage, thats what i always think of when i think of chillums

read a book by Baba Rampuri, and he was saying as a disciple his foremost job was to look after his gurus 17ft pot plants and keep his chillum constantly packed

17. foot. pot. plants.

no wonder these dudes are so heavy

edit: chillums are pretty easy to make, what you REALLY gotta think about is what kinda designs are you gonna etch in it. also you could easily embed some cool looking fake gemstones or cool looking rocks in the clay. homemade clay pipe is a really cool idea for a gift man, good luck

Xil · 03-30-2011, 07:38 PM

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Originally Posted by ChiefBongWater

lol I used to make clay bowls back in highschool and sell them to people who couldnt find any glass. I found it easiest to make sherlocks. I used the sculpting clay that would harden in the oven. Basically I wrapped clay around a pencil, slid the pencil out and then formed a sherlock shape with a bowl on the end.

If your making a bowl out of clay i wouldnt expect great quality.

just a heads up, most clay you can fire in your oven is NOT safe to smoke out of, releasing toxic fumes and whatnot

**SageTree** · 03-31-2011, 05:40 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Xil

just a heads up, most clay you can fire in your oven is NOT safe to smoke out of, releasing toxic fumes and whatnot

Is that from the clay or the glaze?

Xil · 03-31-2011, 12:10 PM

i think the actual clay itself, though some kinds might not. most oven firing clays work because of all sorts of weird polymers. i remember reading that if you bake it at too high of a temp the clay will release toxic fumes, and i can only imagine that your lighter/the burning weed exceeds those temps.

Quote:

While rather less emphatic than the former commenter, I agree. Polymer clays are just PVC, and as such it's probably not a good idea to smoke them. The plasticisers, usually the really nasty stuff in burning plastics, are removed in the baking process, however burning PVC releases unpleasant and carcinogenic chemicals. (One could argue that if choosing to smoke, that's a risk you're already willing to take...) Seriously though, just use regular clay and borrow someone's kiln... Even air dry clay (might, I haven't looked into it) work even.

Read more: How to Make a Clay Pipe | eHow.com http://www.ehow.com/how_5708640_make...#ixzz1ICq9XGWO

celestialpillow · 04-07-2011, 09:15 PM

swa~

sum fse' solte lost'e souels are adept at myriasmydrasis, spoon o bowl creations?

how witche youre face face face?

PhishDude · 04-17-2011, 08:43 AM

Do you have access to a kiln? Don't glaze it.

A friend of mine had a clay bowl that her BF at the time had made for her and it was made out of red clay.

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Xil OD'ing on sobriety Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Mizzura Posts: 3,334 Blog Entries: 1 Thanks: 1,037 Thanked 1,158 Times in 717 Posts	ii would start with chillums, easier to make __________________ "we'll show these fascists what a couple of hillbillies can do"

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ChiefBongWater a lot of grease Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Pittsburgh Posts: 1,056 Thanks: 135 Thanked 315 Times in 223 Posts	lol I used to make clay bowls back in highschool and sell them to people who couldnt find any glass. I found it easiest to make sherlocks. I used the sculpting clay that would harden in the oven. Basically I wrapped clay around a pencil, slid the pencil out and then formed a sherlock shape with a bowl on the end. If your making a bowl out of clay i wouldnt expect great quality. __________________ Straight No Chaser Bridgez, Boobs, Beer

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SexRaiinboaz YaHookan Join Date: Feb 2011 Posts: 4 Thanks: 6 Thanked 1 Time in 1 Post	I have clay, water, and a stick. It's sort of pitiful. I know a guy that can fire it.

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Xil OD'ing on sobriety Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Mizzura Posts: 3,334 Blog Entries: 1 Thanks: 1,037 Thanked 1,158 Times in 717 Posts	we used to make make shift pipes out of river clay then wrap em in tinfoil and fire them in the bonfire. they never lasted long, extremely brittle, but it was fun. all i can really suggest is trial and error, no specific technique. a clay steamroller would be cool if you could get it to work __________________ "we'll show these fascists what a couple of hillbillies can do"

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ChiefBongWater a lot of grease Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Pittsburgh Posts: 1,056 Thanks: 135 Thanked 315 Times in 223 Posts	I kinda miss making homemade bongs n stuff. My best were the giant gatorade bottles & big orange juice bottles. Burn a hole, stick in the pen, duct tape a socket to the end Try to make better ones than your friends... But those days are gone and now i have a 200 $ glass piece __________________ Straight No Chaser Bridgez, Boobs, Beer

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SageTree ~Kalyāṇa-mitrā~ Join Date: Sep 2000 Location: In Love Posts: 23,414 Blog Entries: 26 Thanks: 13,070 Thanked 6,769 Times in 4,664 Posts	A chillum is pretty common shape for clay.... there isn't an arm or bend to break, so you're actually increasing the quality by keeping it simple. And, as that goes.... it sounds like you already have everything you need right now. Chillums are super old school and these dudes called Sadhus, are fellas who don't have much and they wonder all over India, so you know it's got some durability __________________ "What's oppressive is letting your life be confined by old definitions of what everything is." -Zen Meister my_scatterheart YaHooka is.... Cannabis lovers from around the world pulling up a comfy chair, picking up a vaporizer, a bong, a brownie, a pipe, or a joint, getting high, stoned, buzzed or healthy. Uniting our minds in conversation...While Portraying a Positive Image of marijuana and marijuana users to the world. Treat your fellow YaHookans with kindness,respect and tolerance.

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adventure Adventure its good Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Upstate NY Posts: 4,742 Thanks: 1,852 Thanked 1,467 Times in 1,093 Posts	the chillium is by far the most badass, and its all in how you hold it __________________ Coming Full Range

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SageTree ~Kalyāṇa-mitrā~ Join Date: Sep 2000 Location: In Love Posts: 23,414 Blog Entries: 26 Thanks: 13,070 Thanked 6,769 Times in 4,664 Posts	It's the piece I do 99% of my smoking out of. __________________ "What's oppressive is letting your life be confined by old definitions of what everything is." -Zen Meister my_scatterheart YaHooka is.... Cannabis lovers from around the world pulling up a comfy chair, picking up a vaporizer, a bong, a brownie, a pipe, or a joint, getting high, stoned, buzzed or healthy. Uniting our minds in conversation...While Portraying a Positive Image of marijuana and marijuana users to the world. Treat your fellow YaHookans with kindness,respect and tolerance.

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SexRaiinboaz YaHookan Join Date: Feb 2011 Posts: 4 Thanks: 6 Thanked 1 Time in 1 Post	Alright... Thank you

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Xil OD'ing on sobriety Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Mizzura Posts: 3,334 Blog Entries: 1 Thanks: 1,037 Thanked 1,158 Times in 717 Posts	Nice job on the sadhu shoutout sage, thats what i always think of when i think of chillums read a book by Baba Rampuri, and he was saying as a disciple his foremost job was to look after his gurus 17ft pot plants and keep his chillum constantly packed 17. foot. pot. plants. no wonder these dudes are so heavy edit: chillums are pretty easy to make, what you REALLY gotta think about is what kinda designs are you gonna etch in it. also you could easily embed some cool looking fake gemstones or cool looking rocks in the clay. homemade clay pipe is a really cool idea for a gift man, good luck __________________ "we'll show these fascists what a couple of hillbillies can do"

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celestialpillow YaHookan Join Date: Jun 2009 Posts: 126 Thanks: 3 Thanked 21 Times in 17 Posts	swa~ sum fse' solte lost'e souels are adept at myriasmydrasis, spoon o bowl creations? how witche youre face face face?

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PhishDude Telepathic Jackal Join Date: Sep 1999 Location: Mars Posts: 3,985 Thanks: 0 Thanked 23 Times in 20 Posts	Do you have access to a kiln? Don't glaze it. A friend of mine had a clay bowl that her BF at the time had made for her and it was made out of red clay. __________________ Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for generations. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it. -- Buddha

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