>>121154My neighbor has a kiln and allows me to add a few items whenever she fires her own pieces. She's also the one that got me started. I asked her to make me a pipe and she said, "Why don't you do it yourself? I'll show you how." It's super easy. I allow the clay to become leather hard then drill out the bowl & stem with hand held drill bits. I then carve out the pipe using fishing line and a variety of "tools" made from paper clips, nails, screws, parts scavenged from a retractable ball point pen, kitchen utensils etc. I usually work on 4 or 5 at a time because it takes just slightly more time to make 5 than it does to do only 1.
