or whatever; Smoking the other godly smokeble plant

much agreed, good sir. ;)

I'm a Potter yes it would be very fragile but you'd be surprised how quickly you can get used to the way to handle fragile greenware. I just went and made a whole bunch of clay tiles for testing glaze they don't look like tiles like you think about them they're like a little l-shaped pad of clay and they're exceedingly thin and I had to trim probably two dozen of them just now and didn't break any I mean you could have literally just flick your finger and break these so easily but you just get used to it. It probably would only take breaking maybe three or four pipes before you get the hang of it the human hand is an amazing amazing amazing thing I doubt that we will ever be able to create a robotics device with enough feedback to mimic our hands all of the physical cues that go back to the brain as we touch different objects is an incredible amount of data

@@patrickglaser1560 & then 'we' the inquisitive once again get drawn in!

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I shared a video from 1952 from the same village of someone making them.

typograf62 Me too! Now I know.....

Yes always wondered how's it done

I hope still made in 50 year from now or even 200 years.

Not really the real skill is in making the mold

Yes I thought they were slip cast.

Tying your shoe takes more skill.

I've dug up dozens of broken clay pipe fragments in gardens over the years, and around a dozen in my own garden alone. It always brings a smile to my face, as I feel the connection to the gardeners of years gone by, who dug the same patch of ground long ago. Sometimes it is clear from the situation they are found, that they were the last person to turn over that sod, or move that stone, and sometimes, like with my own veg plot, they are just one more soul to have worked that soil in an unbroken line of gardening, back through the seasons, in a cycle that probably started as long before them, as they were before us.

I used to find broken bits of these things in Ontario Canada all the time when I worked for an archeology company, it was probably the 2nd most common type of artifact we would find on European settler sites (first being broken ceramics, ie plates and such).

@@mjstecyk It's the flint arrowhead of their time. Sadly, our archeological signature piece will probably be the plastic bottle.

Id find tones of fragments in my local park where they were doing construction, even found an old barely recognisable sickle and handle too

@@JoesWebPresence that is a beautiful thought.

Same reason I'm here.

Now we know who's making all those pipes Nicola finds! 😝

2degucitas easy?

@@planetwisconsin9901 But Nicola says all the pipes she finds are at least 100 years old. Could she be mistaken? As they are clearly still being produced, I suspect she could.

@@planetwisconsin9901 Nic is my favourite mudlarker, she's as happy to find a broken bit of crockery as she is to find a diamond ring

@@patrickglaser1560 No, it's just something I've been saying to people for decades. I've never thought about it before, but the only thing I can come up with is that my late father used to call me that when I was very small, so maybe it was buried in my subconcious? Rainbows are beautiful anyway.

@@patrickglaser1560 It was my father, and no he wasn't a church-goer.

Thrilling...seriously? It's interesting for sure but I couldn't be thrilled by watching an old codger make clay pipes. Get a grip!

Clay pipes were cheap. When the stem got broken, or the pipe became soaked with tar and nicotine and foul tasting, it was easy to throw it away and buy a new one. One pipe might only last a couple of weeks. A thrifty smoker might wash an old pipe and put it aside to dry and air for a few weeks but it was never as sweet as new.

@assassinlexx Glazing not necessary and adds to cost. There were some fancy ones that were glazed. I have seen shiny ones that had an invisible picture printed on them. As you smoked the heat made the picture appear, a windmill or a flower or something of that nature.

They where usualy imported from England in barrels. In Nothern Sweden they are quite rare to find, but i still remeber how awsome it was when i found pieces of one in my fathers garden whan i was a little child. Later i found a few pieces on old shipsites in the sea, probably washed asore pieces seafarers throwed in the water whan it was brooken.

@@sheep1ewe There were lots of broken ones outside Sundsvall, the ships got rid of the ballast there before loading timber. Lots of flintstone as well!

@@MartinAhlman That was interesting, i actualy did a search a few miles from the city some years ago, but i think as You say they are probably concentrated finds to certain locations. I will absolutly hawe another look around those areas in the future! (As well as continue my hunt for weather baloons... ;) ) It's quite annoying that the permission papers for legaly use a metal detector in Sweden cost a small fortune today... It had been interesting to search the shores for metal parts from the wooden ship era.

@@sheep1ewe Try Klampenborg, the west side :-) And I agree, the fee is way too high for a metal detector. :-(

@@MartinAhlman Thank You for the tip! Yes, especialy since i just got my self a new high grade detector... But maybe if it where many people who could share the same area with permission it would be more realistic, in Sweden mudlarking does not need any special premission for picking up loose finds, as it (formaly) does in Brittain, as long as one keep it outside protected "historical sites" and there are not metal objects of historical significance in the finds (but if one offer them to the state and they does not want to buy it from You, You are alloved to keep the find, no matter what,´from what i could found, and it only refear to objects made of metal, not objects made of other materials outside marked (or similary protected) sites.). So, at least from what i could find, i think we hawe a perfectly legal green card for official mudlarking, actualy, and a fine thing in sweden is that it is not only limited to the shores, one only need the elandowners formaly premission to dig in the ground and move rocks, nothing else outside marked areas, så You are basically free to search everywhere as long as it does not collide with any other regulations.

My Dutch grandfather smoked a clay pipe, his had a bit of red sealing wax at the end of the stem for this reason.

@@mrdanforth3744 I never heard of that thanks.

Jamie Nightingale , I was thinking the same thing , I hope their name is on it as well.

A tool and die maker.

It may look easy because he has been doing it for 50 years

@@petersoal40 Naw. It's easy. I'm a skilled craftsman, this is unskilled labor. Anyone who is good with their hands could pick this up in 5 minutes or less.

peter soal he said woman and children commonly performed this process. It’s not like he’s sculpting wooden pipes, just filling a mold and trimming it.

You can always 3D print the mold or carve out a mold of your pipe out of clay and cast it (After firing it) in sand for smelting an aluminium mold of your pipe.

I was thinking same thing, one is not going to find a mould via Amazon. I do think creating a mould out of plaster would be a bit easier. One would need to jimmy rig the wire piece he has as well as that piece he inserted to flesh out the bowl. But I do think this is doable.

@@mejia81004 One could even hand carve it all out of wood, if one has enough patience.

Just for personal preference and bragging rights it would be nice to have original moulds though instead of modern day 3d printed stuff.. not that it would do a better job either way... Just like a set of calipers ive got from 1888 made by d kimberly and sons... You just imagine all the hands theyve been through over the years etc... Or it might just be me... Ha

@@tonysolar284, I have a little home hobby type setup for pottery and aluminium casting and am tempted to try that. the most difficult thing is deciding on a design, it has to be attractive enough to justify the effort. Something to do whilst isolating.

Single axel compact enough to be towed by a 1000cc car vardo style wagon with a compact half gas cylinder wood stove. I love the old stuff and I recently bought myself a shandon tweed flat cap made by O'Gorman's of Cork. I also intend on buying some leather working tools as I want to make harness quality belts to keep a bloke or ladies trousers up with decent brass buckles. I recently replaced the prong in my leather belt with a nail. It saved money and it was a problem to solve. An idle mind is the devil's play ground even keeping your stuff tidy and organised is rewarding.