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How to Make a Simple Glass Pipe
publisherHELEN YANG
time2013/10/08
Hand-blown glass pipes are popular crafts not just for smokers, but for anyone who wants to make and possibly sell homemade crafts. Advanced glassblowers make pipes with carburetor holes and colorful decorative patterns, but beginners will want to start simple. The process is fairly delicate, so make sure you procede slowly and trust your senses around heated surfaces.
Instructions
- 1. Put on the goggles and welding gloves.
- 2. Affix the blowtorch, using a C-clamp or other anchor, in a place where you can conveniently hold the pipe in front of it. Turn it on and adjust the flame until it is bluish and about 3/4 of an inch long.
- 3. Hold the round end of the glass tubing in front of the flame, rotating it so that it's heated evenly on all sides. You can acquire glass tubing from a craft store, a laboratory supplier or by purchasing it online. It should be open on one end and rounded on the other. Continue evenly heating the round end until it begins to lose its shape.
- 4. Blow carefully into the open end of the tube. The rounded end, if properly heated, should expand into a bubble. When the bubble is large enough, pull it away from the flame and allow it to cool.
- 5. Heat the side of the bubble that you would like to form the depression in the pipe's bowl. Carefully blow on this side of the bubble, in the direction of the flame, as it is being heated. The bubble should begin to sink in on this side. Continue until the depression is large enough for the tobacco or other material with which you would like to fill the pipe. Remove it from the heat and allow it to cool.
- 6. Touch the tip of the torch's flame to the center of the pipe's depression. After a while, a small red spot should form. Suck gently on the other end of the pipe until you pull a hole through the center of the bowl. Allow the pipe to cool.