I know this isn't directly related to DD, but the reason I'm using the tools is.
I'm house sitting, and decided that I was going to try to make a wooden pipe, so I went and found a pretty good piece that was already cut into a small block, started carving the bowl, put it in a vice, and went to get the drill to drill a hole from the bowl to the mouth piece.
Problem is, when I try to put the drill bit in, it doesn't seem to stay in place for smaller ones, and for bigger ones it won't even fit in. I've tried twisting the top to make the three "prong" parts move, but it still doesn't fit in or hold smaller ones.
The piece of wood is about 1\2" thick, so I carved the bowl just about halfway down that, and it's about 3" long with the end of the bowl nearest to the mouthpiece being about at the 2" mark.
Any ideas?
In the mean time I guess I can just carve it into a better shape, right now it's just a block.
yeah pictures would probably help. i do not understand
One sec, only have my cellphone for a camera until I go find my grandpas good one so I need to find my cable.
[img]http://bookofjesus.org/images/wtwwbg0v8fkpqh3se58.jpg[/img]
Top view of it with the bowl (once I get it soaked the first time I'm gonna make it a little wider at the top)
[img]http://bookofjesus.org/images/1jv2t2e042l5tq637o0.jpg[/img]
Mouthpiece with a little hole drilled from my first attempt at the drill, doesn't go in that far.
[img]http://bookofjesus.org/images/gdr8zs3i0plupq7jhiq0.jpg[/img]
Side view, not sure if this is a good explanation, but the hole needs to go about to where those lines stop having such a wide gap between them.
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I'm gonna just post this in FT, it'll probably get answered faster.
That's kinda confusing... I mean, if you want to know more about the drill, you should probably post pics of that instead. Typically the way you secure a drill bit is by unscrewing the tip until the three prongs let the bit that was in there go. Drop a new bit in and tighten the screw back until it won't budge. I don't really know what to tell you, bud.
I did that, but they don't tighten enough for it to be secured in.
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I finally got it, I called my uncle to ask and he said that it locks in place after it gets tightened.
Bad part is that I kinda fucked up by going a little too fast so the bottom cracked along with a little bit near the mouthpiece, but tape fixed it.
I'm gonna probably just start from scratch with another good hunk of wood I found
I'm sure it's going to look mighty suss when they get bac and their neighbors say that someone was using power tools in the house while they were away.
Just a drill, besides it's always noisy here.
Just buy a pipe.
Or use this
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I'm actually planning on just getting a glass spoon when I get home, but I just like making things to kill time.
I wound up making three, one for me two for friends. They hit like shit though.
[QUOTE=^0mKTank;20508210]I'm actually planning on just getting a glass spoon when I get home, but I just like making things to kill time.
I wound up making three, one for me two for friends. They hit like shit though.[/QUOTE]
Of course they hit shit. Unlike proper wooden pipes which are sealed around the bowl to prevent burning the wood, you have this rough, splintered surface that would be releasing dangerous smoke into your lungs. You'll probably find yourself really short of breath over the next few days if you keep using it.
[QUOTE=HiddenMyst;20509958]Of course they hit shit. Unlike proper wooden pipes which are sealed around the bowl to prevent burning the wood, you have this rough, splintered surface that would be releasing dangerous smoke into your lungs. You'll probably find yourself really short of breath over the next few days if you keep using it.[/QUOTE]
is there a cheap way to seal the wood properly? probably gonna take some sanding but i assume you need some sort of sealant thing.
This is the type of smoker that makes the rest of us look bad.
Sure you can seal the wood cheaply, and then you can take a hit, and inhale so many toxic fumes your eyes might actually turn purple and melt in their sockets, look it up on the net, ask someone who knows how to make a pipe, and for fucks sake pick up a carving knife.
And I'll probably have to say this to, the knife goes AWAY from your face, and don't forget to wear gloves, and goggles.
In fact just put the wood and the power tools down and watch House instead.
[QUOTE=Faunz;20510227]This is the type of smoker that makes the rest of us look bad.
Sure you can seal the wood cheaply, and then you can take a hit, and inhale so many toxic fumes your eyes might actually turn purple and melt in their sockets, look it up on the net, ask someone who knows how to make a pipe, and for fucks sake pick up a carving knife.
And I'll probably have to say this to, the knife goes AWAY from your face, and don't forget to wear gloves, and goggles.
In fact just put the wood and the power tools down and watch House instead.[/QUOTE]
How come he makes the 'rest of us' look bad? He's asking a question, he's trying to make a wooden pipe. I don't know what's the problem with that. Please clarify.
I was just about to post something along those lines :v:
Also, why couldn't you have just informed me that it could be toxic unless I seal it? I had no idea, but you didn't have to be a dick about it.
Of coarse I have to be a dick about it, I'm a dick...
Use your brain man, what do you seal wood with, and what happens when you apply high heat to that substance and inhale the fumes.
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Dunno what im saying anymore greeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaaamaaaaan
I have no clue what, and I had no clue that burning wood releases fumes that are bad seeing how people breathe in the smoke from a campfire which probably has more crap in it then this seeing how most people use newspaper too.
[QUOTE=^0mKTank;20523814]I was just about to post something along those lines :v:
Also, why couldn't you have just informed me that it could be toxic unless I seal it? I had no idea, but you didn't have to be a dick about it.[/QUOTE]
You [I]did[/I] ask for 'tool' help...
Yeah dumbass but they aren't directly burning it and inhaling the fumes straight into their lungs as concentrated smoke. Trust me, any way you can seal the wood will release fumes more toxic than the wood itself being burnt. If you have tools just use a socket as a bowl and use a cylindrical part from a pen as a downstem. Metal doesn't give off fumes. :eng101:
Sadly I don't, but I plan on just buying a glass spoon in a few days anyways. And I had a feeling after googleing it that anything that seals it isn't going to burn cleanly.
But thinking realistically, how bad could it really be as long as I don't use it that often?
[QUOTE=^0mKTank;20526010]Sadly I don't, but I plan on just buying a glass spoon in a few days anyways. And I had a feeling after googleing it that anything that seals it isn't going to burn cleanly.
But thinking realistically, how bad could it really be as long as I don't use it that often?[/QUOTE]
Anything used to seal the wood will contain chemicals similar to that of glue. Inhaling glue fumes (only the light haze ones that come from evaporation) has been proven to kill brain cells. But actually physically burning the glue and inhaling it's smoke will probably cause permanent damage from just a single sesh.
I'm talking unsealed, because I haven't sealed it yet, and I've already used it a few times.
In order to make the bowl less likely to release wood smoke, you can knap it, basically polish it with a hard rounded peice of metal, like the handle of some needle nose pliers or whatever. You just rub it against the wood until it gets nice n hardened so theres not little pieces of wood hanging off from the drilling and shit.
Of course Im referring to the bowl of the pipe itsself.
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