Aww thank you so much! 🥰🥰

Aww haha that’s amazing!! So glad to hear you found it inspiring 🥰

That’s awesome! Best of luck to you 🥰

Yes! I use cone 6 stoneware clay and cone 5/6 food safe glaze. If you’re new to pottery, you will need access to a kiln (maybe if you have a local paint your own pottery store they could fire it for you), and you don’t have to make it on the pottery wheel. You can hand build it! ☺️

Thank you so much! Yes I size the opening so that it will fit either a glass or silicone down stem once it’s finished 😊 I did make one bong with a built in down stem but it makes it a bit trickier to clean, so a removable one seems best.

@@theclaycollective this makes a lot of sense, thank you! I'm thinking of doing a removable clay pipe then. It could be fitted with a wet lump of clay instead of silicone, so that it's even more absurdly sustainable.

@@crabofchaos7881 sounds like a great idea!! Once you get the shrinkage of your clay exact, you can make them pretty seamless! Little rubber o-rings from the hardware store are great too for making things air tight if the stem fits a little loose in the hole!

I get them on Amazon! You can buy glass ones, but I like the silicone ones since they’re a bit more forgiving if your shrinkage calculation ends up being a little off 😊

For sure! I use a 7/8” hole punch for the hole and making the “tube”. My red clay shrinks at 15.5%. The hole punch has worked well for me with other clays with different shrinkages too, but I also buy little rubber O-rings from the hardware store and slip it around the silicone down stem. That way it has a snug but flexible fit even if there’s slight variation in the finished hole size 😊

@@theclaycollective Thank you so much! That is really helpful!

@@trishsannes so happy to help!! ☺️

Thank you! I bought it from tuckers pottery supplies! But any ceramic store should carry them 😊

Hmm, maybe you can find some piping at a hardware store at that size? Or possibly use a compass to carve the hole diameter and then manually cut it out?

Thank you for getting back to me so quick!! Those are such good ideas I’ll try them out this weekend:)

@@goosetepher best of luck!! 😊

Hey there! This glaze combo is Cordovan x2 under Birch x2 with a little bit of Light Flux on top 😁

I just tried to find the link to the down-stems I purchase on Amazon for you but they’re gone now 😭 If you google silicone down-stems though there are lots of head shops that supply them! Not as cheap, but nice quality!

I use dipping glaze and I pour it inside 😊

About as easy as a glass bong! The only downside is you can’t see through it so it’s harder to tell when it’s clean 😅

Smell it lol

It’s mid cal red from tuckers pottery supplies! 😊

Thanks for the response! I’ll look that up

I kind of just eyeball it 😂 but I’d say around 2-3lbs!