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Ason Unique

Ason Unique

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Okay well I take ceramics at school, the teacher is usually on top of kids making bongs and shit as so far as official projects, but I was wondering if I could make something simple like a chillum and let it dry in the class and heat it in the oven at home, would I need to glaze it and such? I could pretty much form the actual piece, but I wouldn't be able to use the kiln and the other stuff in the school that the teacher could find out about it lol.

I really wanted to make a chillum or some shit, seems pretty simple.
 
just say ur making an aqua cone for ur gran to use to water her rose bush or whatever when shes away.
honestly i seriously doubt ur teach even knows what a chillum looks like.

or shell out $2-4 and buy one from india
 
Clay doesn't fire in the temperature range a household oven can usually achieve.
You'll need temperatures much, much hotter than your oven will give you.
 
You'd need a kiln that reaches higher temps than a home oven would in order to make it.

Just try making it and don't put any glaze on it and see if you can discretely put it in there.

Or if your school has an art club after school I knew people in HS who would just make bowls there out of clay and the teacher didn't care about it or would let people make whatever they wanted out of clay.

Heh when I was in jr. HS this one kid made a bong in ceramics class and it was put on display by the school as a piece of art. It sort of looked like a big gravity bong but he put a carb on it.

When I was new to smoking herb I smoked out of a red clay pipe my friend's then BF had made for her and it's not that bad.
 
Try making something that doesn't look like a pipe but has a part that would work as a pipe on it. Like something that has a chillum sticking out of it and then after it's fired break the chillum part off an use it.
 
I know you're trying to fire it in your HS ceramics class for convenience, but if all else fails (cf. follow advice in Priest's post first) then just talk to a friend in JC or at the local ceramics studio. (For some reason I think you're in Portland OR. I don't know why. I think it's just association with friends I knew then who did the same thing.) Anyway, an accommodating college student or local potter will be happy to fire your piece in his/her studio's kiln.

And I know I'm speaking the obvious, but hasn't the bong/pipe been the art piece of choice for HS wood-workers and ceramics students since the 60s? It's an advantage in many ways because the teachers are used to it (and did it themselves WAY back in the day) that many turn a blind eye to it or even encourage it. Goddamn, some of those guys who fired or carved their own pieces in the 60s have retired as teachers now. But then DARE happened. Oh yeah…

When you finish you piece, post it if you feel comfortable doing so. I love looking at what people create.

ps. Mista Jeff's got a good idea too, but breaking fired ceramics and maintaining a good edge might be a problem; I don't know. If you need an answer, I'll ask my cousin; she's a prof. potter who started her career making pipes in HS. :D But remind me with a PM if you still need an solid answer.
 
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