I learn a lot of things about making ceramic pipes with you, thanks! I think you should talk more about how you make your molds and how it's the process. Great video anyway!
Thanks I love your video it came out really great it sure did help me a lot and I like your assembly system you got it down bud! Do you like your product how do I will tell you it is not as easy as it looks. Anybody that does anything good makes it look easy you're a master thank you once again for sharing and caring take care God bless Mike
Way to go Dude! I started out pretty close to the same way at 17 years old. I'm now 58, father of 4. Still a potter. Been doing Raku lamps and such for past 25 years. Thanks for the Nice videos! Keep up the nice work! See you on the happy trail some day!
Hey, thanks for watching and I appreciate the compliments. Glad someone can relate, I’ll keep at it, and you too, raku is what I would like to do next for the interest of it, so that’s great to hear.
I've gone full circle back around to high fired again. Messing around with cone 6 electric for now. I like the permanence and durability of high fired pottery. If you ever want tips on Raku, let me know. I'd say keep doing what your doing. You're already ahead of the curve!
Robert Graydon yea I’ve learned most of the hardest things so far. As for kilns, my electric burned out so I’m left with my two gas kilns and I don’t think I want to go back to electric, other then for the connivence of turning it off and walking away. But gas is great, high or low fire. Just finished a huge batch of custom flowers all done in my gas kiln. If you have Instagram you should look me up and watch my stories to see more of my daily work. Thanks again for your encouragement. You must love what you do if your still at it.
@@Ceramicsmokeware I will look for you on instagram. I love making pottery. My wages have never been good but I can't think of a different job that I would ever want to trade places with.
I love your pipes, the videos and the humbleness to share all this information. You put so much love in your work! Even reduction firing!!! How do you manage to not close the drill holes with the glaze, what's the specific gravity? And for my lousy pipe understanding, how do you avoid that the weed basin sinks into the channel? Thank you so much!
Esther SUAVE thanks, for not clogging the holes I have my glaze added with about 90% water and I think that is about 1.55 spg but I don’t remember off the top of my head. But I also scrape the glaze out of the hole and scrape some of the glaze off in the bowl to make it a thinner layer near the hole. As for the sinking I have not had any problems there.
I enjoyed your sharing your process of pipe making. However and not a bad however. I would have liked to have seen one in that you did the building process on.. I understand the how long it takes from start to finish. That is why I think you speed up the making of your video. I would love to see and hear you do your art. Thank you because all and all I did get an over all view of the production. 👍👍❤️
Cool video and the pipes look very nice, but I wonder how you would make them by hand in this form? And, maybe it would be more efficient if you could somehow hang them up on hooks through the kick holes while burning them in the oven, I don't know if it is possible or too fragile but it could save you that grinding time :)
Edgar der Schmied good point, and I’d say it’s just like the way I do it, you have to try it to find out and then keep at it to perfect it. The easiest thing would to not glaze the bottom, but when competing against glass, you end feeling the need to make it as similar as possible. For hand form, you would struggle to match the uniformity but might be Abbie to mimic something on the wheel by throwing it in three parts: the shaft, the smoke chamber, and the bowl. Then slip and score them all together.
Yes we did, but we had to take it down because people were replicating our molds and that’s not acceptable. We will eventually make new videos that will just be on our site artnsyn.com. But if you want to try a mold go check that site out. Sorry about that, not sure when we will get around to the videos.
Robert Graydon yea that is a home made set up, but I just looked for wet grinders online and bought the cheapest one, don’t remember the brand. Supper hard to find those pads, someone had some and gave it to me. It is a huge time saver though.
Very nice work! Looking to make a career change and this looks very intriguing, plus I am more of a creative sort. Can one person make a decent living at this? Do you have a general idea of total start up costs? Thanks!!
Roderico I guess it all depends on your situation. It is very hard to make a living doing this with a family. If you are single it is totally doable. I would still recommend having a side job for those months staring out where your not making a lot. To start up can be cheaper if you find a local studio to do your work at or at least use there kilns. You can start by buy used equipment and setting up electrical plus some other tools and what not for under 1k. Not bad just depends on your approach and how you choose to make the products. Wheel throwing is more expensive because of the wheel where molds are cheaper to make.
@@Ceramicsmokeware I am single. No rent. Home with a large work space, but a kiln is out of the question in my residence. Working on a design of one item and was hoping you might review it. Is that ok?
I love your videos. Thank you so much for posting. I have a couple questions. First is what is your slip recipe. Second is how do you make bong fittings?I know there's shrinkage after firing. Are you sanding after firing to get the correct fit or have you calculated exactly the size you need so it fits correctly after firing. I would like to try to make 14 mm fittings
Matthew Leggett thanks. I won’t share recipes but you can always buy them on my website if you’d like. As for fittings, it is a game of calculations and sanding. It’s hard to get it perfect.
@@Ceramicsmokeware no worries about the recipe. Thank you anyway. I'm navigating this new business venture and it's been a lot of fun so far. Your videos have been extremely helpful. Islip recipe works pretty good but I'm always interested in trying new stuff and learning better ways. next week I should be working on making my first bong and then making a mold so I can start slip casting them.
Matthew Leggett oh yeah your looks good for sure. Most people when they are starting are not that far yet. I saw the mug women mold setup 👌 was thinking that you must have learned that from me since it looked so familiar. Keep at it
I was astonish by your work.. I wonder how those clay become glaze like glass.. Can you please provide me the name of that material you use to make it becoming glaze.. Thanks
It's a type of paint where you add it and as it heats in called a "kiln" makes the process of what the finished overlapped layers of paint called such as "glazing"
Clayreationz . I have and it’s not worth doing in my opinion if you do it that way when starting out. When selling to shops, you don’t get paid as much as you need for the time it takes to wheel throw a nice pipe. Plus they dont look as consistent every time unless you use molds.
A couple of questions: 1. How long do you let the slip sit before pouring it out? 2. How do you even get it to pour out with such a small hole? This is a legitimate issue I’m having. 3. How long do you let the slip set before disassembling the mold and removing the pipe?
Let set for about 15 to 20 minutes depending on slip. Gently poke a thin paint brush stick into the mold to loosen the slip, and make sure you don’t let the mouth piece/ pour spout get to thick of slip to the point it can’t pour out. When draining angle the mold and if need be gently shake it up and down to force slip out when tough. Leave the drained out slip in there for anywhere from 1 to 6 hours depending on your environment and the mold. Just left some slip drying in the molds today for 5 hours and they were leather hard and came out of the mold great. Let us know if you have more questions, Thanks
Well it’s the way a mold works. The liquid clay starts drying out on the inside walls of the plaster mold to form the piece. You only leave it in the mold for so long and then you drain out the excess slip so that it remains hollow.
I learn a lot of things about making ceramic pipes with you, thanks! I think you should talk more about how you make your molds and how it's the process. Great video anyway!
Flávia Franqueiro thanks for the support! I will make a video lesson soon on how to make the molds, it will be available on my website when it’s done.
Thanks I love your video it came out really great it sure did help me a lot and I like your assembly system you got it down bud! Do you like your product how do I will tell you it is not as easy as it looks. Anybody that does anything good makes it look easy you're a master thank you once again for sharing and caring take care God bless Mike
Yeah, it's hard work. Thanks for watching and leaving the nice comment.
That was mesmerizing!
Laura Peterson o good, thanjs
Way to go Dude! I started out pretty close to the same way at 17 years old. I'm now 58, father of 4. Still a potter. Been doing Raku lamps and such for past 25 years. Thanks for the Nice videos! Keep up the nice work! See you on the happy trail some day!
Hey, thanks for watching and I appreciate the compliments. Glad someone can relate, I’ll keep at it, and you too, raku is what I would like to do next for the interest of it, so that’s great to hear.
I've gone full circle back around to high fired again. Messing around with cone 6 electric for now. I like the permanence and durability of high fired pottery. If you ever want tips on Raku, let me know. I'd say keep doing what your doing. You're already ahead of the curve!
Robert Graydon yea I’ve learned most of the hardest things so far. As for kilns, my electric burned out so I’m left with my two gas kilns and I don’t think I want to go back to electric, other then for the connivence of turning it off and walking away. But gas is great, high or low fire. Just finished a huge batch of custom flowers all done in my gas kiln. If you have Instagram you should look me up and watch my stories to see more of my daily work. Thanks again for your encouragement. You must love what you do if your still at it.
@@Ceramicsmokeware I will look for you on instagram. I love making pottery. My wages have never been good but I can't think of a different job that I would ever want to trade places with.
I love your pipes, the videos and the humbleness to share all this information. You put so much love in your work! Even reduction firing!!! How do you manage to not close the drill holes with the glaze, what's the specific gravity? And for my lousy pipe understanding, how do you avoid that the weed basin sinks into the channel? Thank you so much!
Esther SUAVE thanks, for not clogging the holes I have my glaze added with about 90% water and I think that is about 1.55 spg but I don’t remember off the top of my head. But I also scrape the glaze out of the hole and scrape some of the glaze off in the bowl to make it a thinner layer near the hole. As for the sinking I have not had any problems there.
I enjoyed your sharing your process of pipe making. However and not a bad however. I would have liked to have seen one in that you did the building process on..
I understand the how long it takes from start to finish. That is why I think you speed up the making of your video. I would love to see and hear you do your art.
Thank you because all and all I did get an over all view of the production. 👍👍❤️
Thus my second video n u give me hope jus by the little ive seen.
Cool video and the pipes look very nice, but I wonder how you would make them by hand in this form?
And, maybe it would be more efficient if you could somehow hang them up on hooks through the kick holes while burning them in the oven, I don't know if it is possible or too fragile but it could save you that grinding time :)
Edgar der Schmied good point, and I’d say it’s just like the way I do it, you have to try it to find out and then keep at it to perfect it. The easiest thing would to not glaze the bottom, but when competing against glass, you end feeling the need to make it as similar as possible. For hand form, you would struggle to match the uniformity but might be Abbie to mimic something on the wheel by throwing it in three parts: the shaft, the smoke chamber, and the bowl. Then slip and score them all together.
Great video. Did you ever make any videos about your molds or mold process? I didn’t see anything on the website. Thanks
Yes we did, but we had to take it down because people were replicating our molds and that’s not acceptable. We will eventually make new videos that will just be on our site artnsyn.com. But if you want to try a mold go check that site out. Sorry about that, not sure when we will get around to the videos.
Skulled work , appreciate the process !
Can you share an average wholesale price ?
I'm curious where you got that big wet grinder and did it come with that big black rubber wheel? That looks like a great tool.
Robert Graydon yea that is a home made set up, but I just looked for wet grinders online and bought the cheapest one, don’t remember the brand. Supper hard to find those pads, someone had some and gave it to me. It is a huge time saver though.
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Really nice work man, how long did this whole process take excluding kiln firing?
Sebastian Weber this batch I recorded took about 3 weeks to complete if that answers you
@@Ceramicsmokeware Do you have a rough idea of the amount of work hours?
Roderico maybe around 150 but selling is the other half to the equation here...
Very nice work! Looking to make a career change and this looks very intriguing, plus I am more of a creative sort. Can one person make a decent living at this? Do you have a general idea of total start up costs? Thanks!!
Roderico I guess it all depends on your situation. It is very hard to make a living doing this with a family. If you are single it is totally doable. I would still recommend having a side job for those months staring out where your not making a lot. To start up can be cheaper if you find a local studio to do your work at or at least use there kilns. You can start by buy used equipment and setting up electrical plus some other tools and what not for under 1k. Not bad just depends on your approach and how you choose to make the products. Wheel throwing is more expensive because of the wheel where molds are cheaper to make.
@@Ceramicsmokeware I am single. No rent. Home with a large work space, but a kiln is out of the question in my residence. Working on a design of one item and was hoping you might review it. Is that ok?
Roderico you’ll have to email me or message me on Instagram regarding that.
so these don’t stick to the shelf? do u use kiln wash? and a glaze top coat?
If you use stilts under the piece then they won’t stick. Kiln wash is always a good idea. And there is no top coat for the highfire colors.
I love your videos. Thank you so much for posting. I have a couple questions.
First is what is your slip recipe.
Second is how do you make bong fittings?I know there's shrinkage after firing. Are you sanding after firing to get the correct fit or have you calculated exactly the size you need so it fits correctly after firing. I would like to try to make 14 mm fittings
Matthew Leggett thanks. I won’t share recipes but you can always buy them on my website if you’d like. As for fittings, it is a game of calculations and sanding. It’s hard to get it perfect.
@@Ceramicsmokeware no worries about the recipe. Thank you anyway. I'm navigating this new business venture and it's been a lot of fun so far. Your videos have been extremely helpful. Islip recipe works pretty good but I'm always interested in trying new stuff and learning better ways. next week I should be working on making my first bong and then making a mold so I can start slip casting them.
Matthew Leggett sounds like a good plan, try to start an instagram if you haven’t and then get your work shared there.
@@Ceramicsmokeware you just started following my page today. Blue Moose Casting
Matthew Leggett oh yeah your looks good for sure. Most people when they are starting are not that far yet. I saw the mug women mold setup 👌 was thinking that you must have learned that from me since it looked so familiar. Keep at it
Did you make your molds or buy them if so could you tell me where to get some?
LibertysTeeth83 I do make them all my molds
@@Ceramicsmokeware what are the molds made from?
Anastasia Teleutsa plaster, I’m going to upload a video that is a series all about mold making.
I was astonish by your work.. I wonder how those clay become glaze like glass.. Can you please provide me the name of that material you use to make it becoming glaze.. Thanks
Siangshai FN just go look up “the basics about ceramics” and it will all make sense after learning just a little
How did you get the multi color marveling on some of those pipes?
It's a type of paint where you add it and as it heats in called a "kiln" makes the process of what the finished overlapped layers of paint called such as "glazing"
G'day! Question if I may, where can you get pipe slip molds ?
You will have to wait maybe three to six months before artnsyn.com will have them. No certain time frame, sorry.
@@Ceramicsmokeware thank you man. Love your vids
Trying making them on the wheel one day
Clayreationz . I have and it’s not worth doing in my opinion if you do it that way when starting out. When selling to shops, you don’t get paid as much as you need for the time it takes to wheel throw a nice pipe. Plus they dont look as consistent every time unless you use molds.
I am interested in purchasing some of your molds, if you are willing to sell.
Kelly Snyder yea, you can visit my website and choose between two pipe molds to purchase. Website link is in the bio here
A couple of questions:
1. How long do you let the slip sit before pouring it out?
2. How do you even get it to pour out with such a small hole? This is a legitimate issue I’m having.
3. How long do you let the slip set before disassembling the mold and removing the pipe?
Let set for about 15 to 20 minutes depending on slip.
Gently poke a thin paint brush stick into the mold to loosen the slip, and make sure you don’t let the mouth piece/ pour spout get to thick of slip to the point it can’t pour out. When draining angle the mold and if need be gently shake it up and down to force slip out when tough.
Leave the drained out slip in there for anywhere from 1 to 6 hours depending on your environment and the mold. Just left some slip drying in the molds today for 5 hours and they were leather hard and came out of the mold great.
Let us know if you have more questions,
Thanks
Excellent this is exactly what I needed to know. Thanks for your help
Paul Davis no problem, thanks
How long do you let the slip sit in the mold before you pour it back out? I got our order today.
It’s a bit of a game you have to test many times, mostly because every slip is different.
@@Ceramicsmokeware would an hour be to long I have 04 slip
@@samanthanicholson9015 that’s fine, but if you can’t drain it out then it’s to long. It is preference.
@@Ceramicsmokeware ok cool that makes sense
Did oh make your kiln?
yogabagaba36 no I only remodeled it
Where did you find these molds?
Link should be in the description, but I sell them on my other site www.artnsyn.com 👍
How are they hollowed
Well it’s the way a mold works. The liquid clay starts drying out on the inside walls of the plaster mold to form the piece. You only leave it in the mold for so long and then you drain out the excess slip so that it remains hollow.
What type of clay do you use ??
Francesca Valencia this was a locally made high fire stoneware clay
CeramicSmokeWare and it's non toxic ?
Francesca Valencia always non toxic, it’s hard to find a toxic clay. I’ll be providing this clay in the coming months as well.
CeramicSmokeWare thank you so much ! You create such beautiful work !
Did you make those molds?
Yes, those can be found at artnsyn.com
@@Ceramicsmokeware thanks
Do you sell your molds?
Summer Heartley I will soon, when I finally do my how to make a mold video I will also offer the mold that I make.
Production...
Are the insides of pipes glazed?
Yes, the insides of our pipes here are glazed.
@@Ceramicsmokeware how much for them? Shipping cost?
@@samanthanicholson9015 starting for lowest price item we make is $27 and about $6 for shipping. Visit our website, ceramicsmokeware.com
@@Ceramicsmokeware cool, thanks I will take a look at these! Hopefully I can get one soon.
@@samanthanicholson9015 thanks. We also have Sezzle, a payment method that splits the total in to 4 payments. Take care.
hey can you sell me a pipe mold
Visit our site and you can buy one.
Too fast, cannot see what yur doin
Dude sounds like he's xaned out