Rex Key demonstrates how he make clay pipes

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  • Rex Key demonstrates how he make clay pipes at Ironbridge Gorge Museums' Broseley Pipe Works in Shropshire.

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  • @JEMHull-gf9el
    @JEMHull-gf9el 5 ปีที่แล้ว +117

    Exactly the person I thought would be making clay pipes

  • @kevwolf69
    @kevwolf69 5 ปีที่แล้ว +222

    ... Or blow bubbles, or whatever. Wonderful. Great to see this level of craftsmanship.

    • @klm20079
      @klm20079 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      or whatever; Smoking the other godly smokeble plant

  • @paulesterline5714
    @paulesterline5714 4 ปีที่แล้ว +85

    I love this man's skill level "it's still very fragile..." as he whacks the excess off with uncaring abandon! He has done this for so long he knows EXACTLY how hard he can push on that pipe without crushing it! You or I try it like he did, we would have a handful of pipe pieces!

    • @hjelsethak
      @hjelsethak 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      much agreed, good sir. ;)

    • @ClownWhisper
      @ClownWhisper 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      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

  • @mattmacd2009
    @mattmacd2009 4 ปีที่แล้ว +88

    That's another of lifes little questions answered.
    Many thanks!

    • @mattmacd2009
      @mattmacd2009 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

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

  • @barrywebber100
    @barrywebber100 5 ปีที่แล้ว +45

    I wondered how clay pipes were made, now I know, very interesting! Thanks for sharing.

  • @y-mefarm4249
    @y-mefarm4249 4 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    Very interesting. I didn't know these were still being made. So glad to see an old craft being done today.

  • @OO-tt2ky
    @OO-tt2ky 5 ปีที่แล้ว +21

    That was so cool,you have to respect and love how he makes pipes the old fashioned way, plus just i like the old man's personality so down to earth.

  • @derekstocker6661
    @derekstocker6661 4 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    What a great video, history in action and long may this craftsman continue his wonderful work, thank you for sharing this!

  • @lisalorentz7919
    @lisalorentz7919 5 ปีที่แล้ว +18

    Fascinating! I always assumed they were pour-molded.
    Quite a lot of skill involved. Thanks for telling your story.

    • @davewilco822
      @davewilco822 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Not really the real skill is in making the mold

    • @spudpud-T67
      @spudpud-T67 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Yes I thought they were slip cast.

    • @theobserver9131
      @theobserver9131 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Tying your shoe takes more skill.

  • @artist6135
    @artist6135 5 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    That was awesome!! Thank you for posting. Just saw this today, I know it was posted a year ago.

  • @raycycleit8311
    @raycycleit8311 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I could watch this kind of thing for hours. Excellent!

  • @tonyfanfarone
    @tonyfanfarone 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Fantastic, thanks Mr. Key for taking the time for this. Great fellow to listen to.

  • @watrgrl2
    @watrgrl2 5 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Thank you for sharing your craft! I love tobacco pipes of all kinds. I find them beautiful and so many are works of art. I have been intrigued by how clay pipes were created and its nothing near what I expected. You make a good video sir. We are sorely lacking in people willing to continue with the old ways of crafting objects such as pipes.

  • @MegaDknox
    @MegaDknox 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    That was an awesome video. I've often wondered how the pipes were made. Thanks for posting. I've found a few bowls while out metal detecting but never a whole one.

  • @richmikesell7166
    @richmikesell7166 6 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    Thank you for showing us your skill in pipe making! Really enjoyed it!

  • @qwadratix
    @qwadratix 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    50 years ago I used to smoke one of those. Lovely sweet taste.
    Fortunately I survived. Haven't smoked for 40 years now.

  • @crystalheart9
    @crystalheart9 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Loved seeing you make a pipe, thanks so much.

  • @donaburns7912
    @donaburns7912 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Thank you so much, great demonstration!

  • @kerrypitt9789
    @kerrypitt9789 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    This was a great video on an old skill! Very cool! Such craftsmanship around something once so common!
    I think it is so sad there is less pride in work done than there used to be.

  • @maryperez6169
    @maryperez6169 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Thank you, that is just beautifully made!

  • @christopherlawley1842
    @christopherlawley1842 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    I have some of Rex's pipes. Great to see how he makes them

  • @luciemarie5837
    @luciemarie5837 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    I love this. Thank you for the tutorial. I would really enjoy making pipes like this.

  • @petehall889
    @petehall889 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Brilliant video - I've never seen a clay pipe being made before. Clever chap!

  • @Zodliness
    @Zodliness 4 ปีที่แล้ว +66

    Interesting video. They were routinely thrown into the Thames, much like today's discarded cigarette ends, whenever these 'cheap' clay pipes inevitably got blocked and became unusable. Many of them can still be found in the mud today at low tide.

    • @JoesWebPresence
      @JoesWebPresence 4 ปีที่แล้ว +25

      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.

    • @mjstecyk
      @mjstecyk 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      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).

    • @JoesWebPresence
      @JoesWebPresence 4 ปีที่แล้ว +13

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

    • @jamescanjuggle
      @jamescanjuggle 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

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

    • @andrebartels1690
      @andrebartels1690 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@JoesWebPresence that is a beautiful thought.

  • @bveracka
    @bveracka 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    It's great seeing old traditions of crafting and trades like this being kept alive. I hope he has an apprentice or two, as I think it'd be a real shame if this tradition were lost. There are still quite a few pipe smokers, even in my generation (millenials), but most smoke briar pipes. At any rate, although I would've loved to see more, this was a *great* video.

  • @CrossTimbersSon
    @CrossTimbersSon 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Thanks for sharing! A true craftsman!
    I just purchased one from a local maker, they are a wonderfully cool dry smoke and allow the flavors to come through. The older generations knew how to enjoy the finer and simple things in life.

  • @raycope2086
    @raycope2086 4 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    Really interesting video.
    Well done "Shropshire Star", and well done Rex for sharing his skills.
    I wish you rainbows.

    • @raycope2086
      @raycope2086 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@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.

    • @raycope2086
      @raycope2086 4 ปีที่แล้ว

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

  • @peterbonnez
    @peterbonnez 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Very interesting. Thanks for sharing. My ancestors were pipe makers in Rainford near Liverpool.

  • @typograf62
    @typograf62 4 ปีที่แล้ว +24

    I have wanted to see this for about 50 years.

    • @williambenson8863
      @williambenson8863 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      th-cam.com/video/cK-XgXAzVZ4/w-d-xo.html

    • @williambenson8863
      @williambenson8863 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

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

    • @IrishAnnie
      @IrishAnnie 4 ปีที่แล้ว

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

    • @benno2395
      @benno2395 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Yes always wondered how's it done

    • @tukangbobo
      @tukangbobo 4 ปีที่แล้ว

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

  • @NickyDana
    @NickyDana 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Great work...I love that mold he is working with

  • @2degucitas
    @2degucitas 5 ปีที่แล้ว +60

    I've been watching mudlarking on the Thames videos. She finds many old clay pipes. I see how easy it is to make them.

    • @michael7324
      @michael7324 5 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      Same reason I'm here.

    • @planetwisconsin9901
      @planetwisconsin9901 5 ปีที่แล้ว +7

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

    • @evanc3160
      @evanc3160 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      2degucitas easy?

    • @CB-xr1eg
      @CB-xr1eg 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@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.

    • @catherinerobilliard7662
      @catherinerobilliard7662 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@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

  • @r4blanks
    @r4blanks 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Your expertise and trade is much admired by us pipers sir
    👏👏👏👍

  • @conitorres9774
    @conitorres9774 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    What an interesting video and an awesome talent. Thank you for showing this

  • @teescottageguyproductions
    @teescottageguyproductions 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    My mum and granny got me one when they went on holiday a few years ago. They gave it to me to blow bubbles and it was good at it! Very well crafted

  • @haraldpettersen3649
    @haraldpettersen3649 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    This was a great video, and hyper-interesting content. After all, this is an ancient craft. I see that he made the pipes for everyone in the series: Lark rise to Candelford, and also to the actors (and filmmakers) in the films: Pirates of the Caribbean, as well as countless BBC dramas. Rex Key has been called: a national treasure. He is constantly getting requests to make pipes for people, which I don't think is strange. I should have liked some of his beautiful pipes, even though I don't smoke, which he doesn't do himself either.

  • @doreenlloyd-thompson44
    @doreenlloyd-thompson44 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Thank you, that was interesting. I did not know they were still being made.

  • @stevesloan7132
    @stevesloan7132 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Thank you so much for this wonderful video!

  • @willwinn8559
    @willwinn8559 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Pretty cool , I've always liked the long stemmed pipes 👍

  • @maryelizabeth7222
    @maryelizabeth7222 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    This is thrilling! Hand crafting could be a vanishing art. Long live this craft!!

    • @CB-xr1eg
      @CB-xr1eg 4 ปีที่แล้ว

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

  • @alan_whoneedstiedye
    @alan_whoneedstiedye 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I've wondered how clay pipes were made. Thank you.

  • @mr.niceguy1812
    @mr.niceguy1812 ปีที่แล้ว

    This is SO COOL! Cheers from Upper Kanada!

  • @TheFiown
    @TheFiown 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    Really fascinating ! I Watch mudlarkers find many old pipes ans wondered how they were made ! thank you

  • @edzejandehaan9265
    @edzejandehaan9265 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Great! I used to wonder how they were made. Elegantly simple proces.

  • @robertgarth
    @robertgarth 6 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    That was very interesting. Thanks

  • @anarcheaologist3715
    @anarcheaologist3715 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I've dug up broken clay pipes and always wonder how they were made. Thanks for sharing!

  • @KittenStitcher
    @KittenStitcher 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    That was super-cool! Wonderful! - T

  • @JDSilverTobaccoPipes
    @JDSilverTobaccoPipes 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Love the waistcoat and cap, my friend. Informative video as well!

  • @rayhsetwo8594
    @rayhsetwo8594 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    I have two brand new churchwarden long clay pipes, except they are now 146 yrs old! I pulled them out of a wooden barrel 150ft down on a wreck in Irish sea, in 1993-94. Got them in a glass display case, although commonly found, it's very rare to find complete original old ones 😁

  • @macnutz4206
    @macnutz4206 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Thanks. I have smoked clay pipes but did not know how they were made. For the sake of my front teeth, I mostly stick to briar or corn cob pipes.
    Having an interest in archaeology, I have seen the skulls of ancient clay pipe smokers and have seem the big notch it wears in your teeth with regular use.
    I've seen those very long stemmed clay pipes that were used in pubs. The stem being so long because you break off the very time when using them because they were a communal thing that everyone.used.
    part of the big appeal, of course, was that they were always cheap and produced in large numbers.
    Thanks much for posting this.

  • @neonskyline1
    @neonskyline1 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Brilliant, nice to see, thanks

  • @lucyoriginales
    @lucyoriginales 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    😯 wow! Awesome, Mr.

  • @davidquirk8097
    @davidquirk8097 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Thanks Rex. In my youth I rather fancied a Church Warden pipe, an affectation, but I liked the idea of something I could point with! I'm not a smoker now (probably never really was either) but I still like the graceful, slender lines of the old clay pipes.

  • @vladnickul
    @vladnickul 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Beautiful!

  • @bobmac2786
    @bobmac2786 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    What a fantastic fellow. It’s only a true expert who can make something look so easy. You are a fantastic man Rex and thank you so much for sharing your skill and experience. To think that these pipes were in use for 300 years or more, with relatively little change to their functional design, is amazing. And then to see one produced really makes all those “field finds” come alive. Thanks Rex

  • @robertblanks9602
    @robertblanks9602 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    Fantastic vid. Thanks to all there 👏👍👌

  • @regfox2000
    @regfox2000 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    Fantastic...thanks for that. 👍🏻

  • @peterfarmer1592
    @peterfarmer1592 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Lovely post. Here from Thames Mud larking. Thank you sir.

  • @stevethemudlarker
    @stevethemudlarker ปีที่แล้ว

    brilliant video i never knew this is how they were made, not sure what i thought tbh. i find so many of these on the river.

  • @BigLisaFan
    @BigLisaFan 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    Now I know how the pipes that people find in the Thames are made. Interesting and informative.

  • @shawnablake5102
    @shawnablake5102 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    I was wondering how they were made. Thank you for sharing!

  • @ronslaughterandalice1018
    @ronslaughterandalice1018 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    I have been wondering exactly how they were made now for a long time. I have worked in foundry up to plastic injection but those pipes have been around for a long time and am really impressed with the mold being hand made without there being an EDM to burn the image into the mold. I am also amazed how so many are thrown into the Thames River and don't understand why. It would seem the life span of a clay pipe is short. I'm 73 and when little I saw my great grandmothers clay pipe. Us older guys need to keep busy , it's good for us,,,,thanks for the video

    • @mrdanforth3744
      @mrdanforth3744 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      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.

    • @mrdanforth3744
      @mrdanforth3744 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @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.

  • @davidlong3824
    @davidlong3824 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Very interesting I like these type of learning videos.

  • @IFIXCASTLES
    @IFIXCASTLES 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Thanks for the lesson!

  • @IrishAnnie
    @IrishAnnie 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    I especially loved your personal stamp.

  • @CB-xr1eg
    @CB-xr1eg 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    I learned 2 new words from this video...Flagile, and Throusand. Very educational indeed!

  • @sergeikuzmin6734
    @sergeikuzmin6734 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Wow, thank you so much for this video. You should continue this story, I think

  • @MartinAhlman
    @MartinAhlman 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I loved this! I have always wondered how to make them, I used to find them when mudlarking here in Sweden.Thinking of making a crude one for myself now :-)

    • @sheep1ewe
      @sheep1ewe 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      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.

    • @MartinAhlman
      @MartinAhlman 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@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!

    • @sheep1ewe
      @sheep1ewe 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@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.

    • @MartinAhlman
      @MartinAhlman 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

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

    • @sheep1ewe
      @sheep1ewe 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@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.

  • @Chobaca
    @Chobaca 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Blowing bubbles ❤️

  • @velvetindigonight
    @velvetindigonight 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Wonderfull. Thank you. ...... only in Shropshire!

  • @Cokeonwednesday
    @Cokeonwednesday 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    I love this man

  • @lacossanostra
    @lacossanostra 4 ปีที่แล้ว +53

    you should drop one in the river thames for Nicola white to find !!

    • @holgerhaupt
      @holgerhaupt 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @XTsReaper th-cam.com/users/driftwoodnic

    • @kevinsukdolak5007
      @kevinsukdolak5007 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Good thing he puts his name on it...so you can tell it from an actual old one

  • @AJ-uo8tk
    @AJ-uo8tk 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Thank You!

  • @littlefishy6316
    @littlefishy6316 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Very interesting, thanks.

  • @rollagob
    @rollagob 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    This man needs to create a new Shropshire tradition of Chillums, what a great niche market with all the buzz around legalization.

  • @matonmongo
    @matonmongo 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Thx, and didn't realize it was that simple... might be time to get some clay and print a 3D pipe mold!

  • @calisdad3
    @calisdad3 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Glad to see they are still using 'centigrade' as a unit of measurement.

  • @Rich.H68
    @Rich.H68 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Well now I know, great video.

  • @doreenlloyd-thompson44
    @doreenlloyd-thompson44 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Yes, when I was a child we used them to blow bubbles.

  • @Automedon2
    @Automedon2 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I had assumed they were made with slip molding. This is very interesting

  • @brucemorris6319
    @brucemorris6319 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Thats cool i want one.

  • @oldsagerat
    @oldsagerat 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    I have several old clays. One was a trade item for North American fur trade. Great little smokers, but the bowl gets too hot to hold.
    This was nice to watch !

  • @mjallenuk
    @mjallenuk 6 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Smashing...

  • @OnTheRiver66
    @OnTheRiver66 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Wonderful video. 48 years ago I bought a clay pipe in Williamsburg, VA, and I suspect it was made by this company.

  • @1234566bigpapa
    @1234566bigpapa 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    They are just great just great

  • @Mark-jy4qt
    @Mark-jy4qt 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    I have an antique seafoam eagle's claw pipe😃
    One of them claypipes i want for years....

  • @The-man-with-the-many-pipes
    @The-man-with-the-many-pipes 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Hello!
    Very nice Video thx 👍 ❤

  • @dalepiper6693
    @dalepiper6693 ปีที่แล้ว

    Just found your channel & subbed 👍

  • @alanroberts4060
    @alanroberts4060 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    Superb TFS

  • @marcosduran1443
    @marcosduran1443 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    thats a pretty pipe!

  • @Tavarna
    @Tavarna 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    What a cool man

  • @phoenixman8569
    @phoenixman8569 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    a British lady with a TH-cam channel called "nicola white mudlark - Tideline Art" she walks the Thames river regularly and finds all kinds of old treasures there including clay pipes some of them 100 year old, since the mold is of the same age, maybe those old recovered pipes were made with this same mold from a pipe make a century ago.....

  • @dansherman1980
    @dansherman1980 ปีที่แล้ว

    I would totally blow bubbles.

  • @HipposHateWater
    @HipposHateWater 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    I don't smoke, but after watching those mudlarking along the Thames videos and the uniqueness of these (both historic and aesthetic) make me want to get one anyways.

  • @secretdaisy6484
    @secretdaisy6484 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    That looks like something I could do. Where can I get those metal molds? There was an old pipe maker along the Ohio River not far from where I live & clay is abundant here in KY. Great video. Thanks. 👍☮️🌞

  • @sandylipscomb7003
    @sandylipscomb7003 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    HOW VERY INTERESTING❤️

  • @hectorastudillo2139
    @hectorastudillo2139 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Thanks

  • @shield543
    @shield543 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    According to the Heritage Crafts website, there are only 3 professional clay pipe craftsmen left, this is an endangered craft and needs to be taught before the craft goes extinct!

  • @harrykuntz878
    @harrykuntz878 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Lovely video. In rural Ireland at wakes the mourners were given clay pipes full of tobacco and bottles stout and glasses of whiskey. An old neighbour of my family would inquire a long time ago maybe 70 years ago or more if the family of the one that died gave ham to the people that called and if they had Wainscott ING that was a timber covering across the bottom of the walls to hide the damp. If someone went to a funeral maybe far away the old woman would inquire if they had ham and Wainscott ING . That would impress her and they were well to do and fine decent people in her book then. Have a look for peterson tobacco pipes made in Dublin on hear. It a good show. I refuse to smoke tobacco these days as its wasteful and bad for the health. I prefer to build up my tools I am pretty much there with metal working and mechanics tools but I want to build up a collection of wood working tools and make some projects in woods mainly a compact enough single axel

    • @harrykuntz878
      @harrykuntz878 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      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.

  • @glennschaub6303
    @glennschaub6303 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    So cool

  • @jasonvoorhees895
    @jasonvoorhees895 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    So then the real question is how do I make a clay pipe mold? lol. Very cool video