How Do You Make A Cheap Tobacco Pipe?
A tobacco pipe can be made for next to nothing using just a few tools found in most households and some wood from a tree. It will have a rustic look and be useful for years to come. Cut a branch from a cherry, hard maple or plum tree about 6 inches long using a fine-tooth saw. Make sure the branch naturally has the circumference that you want the bowl of your pipe to be without having to alter it. Allow the wood to sit and season for at least three months. Put the 6-inch branch into a vice or C-clamp, leaving more than 2 inches exposed. The bowl will be 2 inches long on the outside and 1 1/2 inches on the inside. Take an ice pick and start a hole where the top of the bowl will be. Choose a small pilot drill bit and start drilling into the hole started by the ice pick, taking care to stop about 1/2 inch from the bottom of the bowl. Repeat steps 4 and 5 using a wider drill bit. Keep repeating with wider drill bits until the inside of the bowl is the width you desire. Cut a thin branch of
