clay pipe?

hey i want to make a pipe out of clay, but i dont have a kiln to fire it in. Can i just let it harden and use it that way or what?

 

you can get clay were you can put it in your oven and it'll harden

 

or just make a wooden bowl or use tin foil

 

yea that oven thing was my only other idea, but i wasnt sure what temperature to do it at. and i was kind of hoping to just make the whole thing out of clay

 

I don't think the clay will get hot enough in a oven. when you put a flame to it it will melt . you can fire it in a hold in the ground with hard wood as a fuel, but you need the right clay, I would go to you local craft or hobby store, and see what they have there. I guess I should know I'm a clay artist

 

you have to get the right kind of clay. I got some for christmas when i was a little kid and you could bake this kind in the oven. So not just any clay will do

 

o fuck i want to use the clay i took from my art class in school! lol . anyway so i guess since digging a hole filling it with wood and lighting it on fire is pretty much out of the question i might just need to kno if i can use it if i just let it by itself.

*the clay we're using is a gray pottery clay i guess?

 

dry by itself*

 

it a word NO, the hole does not did to be big just large enough so you can get your pipe into in with some wood and you thought that it would be easy

 

wait so the hole does have to be big or doesnt>?..

 

if your getting it from your school you could find out who loads and unloads the kiln. My friend unloaded the kiln and he made several bowls. If not screw clay wooden pipes are the shit. If you have a knife, drill, and bench vise you can make a kickass one.

 

yea that would be the one of the art teachers... and i know they wont help haha. that would idea sounds sweet but what kind of wood could i use if i wanted to do that? .

o funny story about the kiln thing. me and someone else were talking and i was like dude we should make a bong and disguise it as a teapot and he's like yea yea they wont kno so in class he said to the teacher 'i wanna make a teapot' and the teachers like yea, but we have to be very carefull because one year a kid made a... bong. so yea there went that brilliant idealol

 

no it does not have be big a foot long by 8ins wide by 6ins deep should do it, in less the pipe is a moster PS any hard wood , would do just get shavings and small pieces, let me know how it worked

 

o nice about how long do u thinki should keep it in for? (the pipe wouldnt be any bigger then say your hand)

 

i went out into my back yard and pick up some off the ground, dunno what kind they were. You could even use 2x4 i suppose if you wanted too. expirement around and find out what works best.

 

just till the wood burns out by it's self ,let it cool by itself, if you what do make look a little different, put keys shavings around as it fires

 

nice i might try both of those ideas... i still wish there was an alternative to having a mini bomfire tho... if my mom (yea im only in highschool i live with my mom hah) or the nieghbors see it i'm FUCKED

 

no bomfire , just a small little one , and do it in the day time, tell you mom it is for school, you have your own yard? yes

 

yea i live in a woodsy area in maine,US. so i could go in the woods behind my house and find a place. but telling my mom is out of the question, she'l be like wtf kind of school project needs you two make a fire in our backyard?! lol (the real reason i dont want to make a fire pit thing is pretty much cuz im a lazy bastard)

 

I made a ceramic pipe and heated it in my oven for 2hrs on 400 F its hard enoughand works well, though it tasted kind strange