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Post by trevorrace on Jan 14, 2018 8:46:46 GMT -5
I have some ideas in mind, but what I'm really interested in is if anyone here has seen (m)any pipes made from random repurposed objects?
I actually just recalled(while typing the last sentence) seeing a website with pipes made from....I think it was just garbage, but not just kitchen trash. This guy would use a broken screwdriver handle for a stem/shank, and things like that.
When I was a kid, I would often put on silly little comedic performances in the living room for my family, and I once used a little wooden mallet (looked exactly like a mini judge's gavel) for a pipe. Now, at 36, I'd like to repurpose an actual gavel into a pipe(but only if it comes with a story from it's practical life).
I am really interested in hearing your stories. What crazy items have you seen repurposed into a tobacco pipe? Anything you would just love to own but know you'll never afford it or see one again?(keeping in mind the subject of it being repurposed from something else).
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Post by papipeguy on Jan 14, 2018 8:57:55 GMT -5
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Post by zambini on Jan 14, 2018 11:44:22 GMT -5
I have a friend who'd make smoking implements from apples, light bulbs and rubber hose, and water faucets. None were particularly user-friendly.
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Post by trailboss on Jan 14, 2018 14:09:50 GMT -5
When I smoked weed in the days of my ‘yute, I always looked for novel ways of smoking, as a tobacco smoker my Austria Hungarian Pipe is about as edgy as I get.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 14, 2018 16:28:55 GMT -5
I wouldn't go down this road. If you maintain the pace you have started, you'll soon be up to your ears in briar. . . . .
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Post by trevorrace on Jan 15, 2018 18:47:31 GMT -5
I have a friend who'd make smoking implements from apples, light bulbs and rubber hose, and water faucets. None were particularly user-friendly. When I was younger, I also made pipes out of apples and light bulbs. Thing is, it wasn't for tobacco use. Haha |
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Post by zambini on Jan 15, 2018 22:03:20 GMT -5
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Post by trevorrace on Jan 16, 2018 4:14:11 GMT -5
Lmao
This thread went in a different direction than I expected.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 16, 2018 14:25:23 GMT -5
Lmao This thread went in a different direction than I expected. I tried to warn ya . . . .  |
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Post by Lady Margaret on Jan 16, 2018 22:12:10 GMT -5
they usually do, lol
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Post by PhantomWolf on Jan 17, 2018 4:04:08 GMT -5
I was gonna say, no one makes a pipe out an apple or a Dr Pepper can because they are desperate to smoke some Old Joe Krantz. haha
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Post by davek on Feb 3, 2018 0:42:08 GMT -5
I smoked de reefer in da day as well (who didn't back then). I loved making pipes. I wonder if we could not take a page from pot smokers in the tobacco world though. And make nice smoking pipes which are not pretty, maybe not conventional looking, but are good smokers. Many of my pipes have a reed stem. I avoid clenching and they give me a little added length.  When I'm walking the dog smoking one I'll sometimes get heads turning. People think reefer. My neighbors are mostly used to it now though. But what about taking it further? I have a pipe somewhere made from a sawed off piece of maple (bark and all) for the bowl with a reed stem. The bowl is basically from a stick, only about 1/2" diameter. It screams pot, but never burned it. Once broken in it was a nice pipe for a quick smoke, trying new blends usually. There are likely many materials which would make a fine tobacco pipe, but look funky. I wonder what we might be missing. I do have a few pretty "Sunday go to meeting" pipes for when I'm away from home. |
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Post by mrlunting on Aug 18, 2020 6:49:31 GMT -5
I made a pipe out of brass fittings that were laying around when I worked at regional hose. Yes they had lots of hose. 🤣haha!
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Post by jay on Aug 18, 2020 12:10:46 GMT -5
I built a hookah using a ehrlenmeyer flask my dad brought me from the physics department, a rubber stopper, a very short section of copper pipe, and a wooden thread spool wrapped in aluminum foil. It truly was for smoking tobacco only (I've never tried the other stuff), and it actually worked really well.
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Post by Ronv69 on Aug 18, 2020 12:39:25 GMT -5
Those don't look much different than the Bavarian pipes from a hundred years ago. I have a couple of those. Never smoked one though. Too many issues with all the parts, fit, etc. |
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