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  1. I cleaned this pipe for the first time yesterday. I was worried that the unglazed clay wouldn't come clean, but it did! Like I said before, it's porcelain fired to cone 10, and the specs say it should have 0% absorbency, which seems to be the case. I also rely on this for the handles I make for walking sticks (soon to be the subject of a how-to thread!) and they don't get grubby like the more absorbent clay I used at first.

    Also, I made a couple more because the first one worked out so well. The grayish one was supposed to be green -- I used green mason stain mixed into the clay body -- but it's more like dark grey-green. I made the pink with red mason stain.

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  2. I was smoking some lovely hash last week and I realized I could use a few more pipes. I looked on eBay, but then I realized that I had everything on hand to make one myself. I've made a lot of things out of clay but for some reason it never occurred to me to make a pipe. This came out of the kiln this morning and I plan to test it out thoroughly later today, around 4:20 I imagine!

    It's porcelain painted with a cobalt oxide wash. I don't use much glaze in the studio -- mostly oxides and Mason stains either as washes or blended into the clay body. I just love porcelain and in this case it let me make the stem very thin.

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