To Make a Smoking Pipe

You will need:

• A knife; skinny and as long as the radius of the apple

• An apple

Picking out the Apple The apple you use should be relatively small and hard. You do not want it to be pithy or juicy. All of your smoking material should fit in the indentation in the top of the apple. The Construction For the bowl you will be using the area at the top where the stem is, so pull out the stem. Then follow the simple instructions below.

1. Take the knife and place the point in the indentation. Plunge the knife into the apple 3/4 of the way down. Do not make the cut from the plunge any greater than the width of the knife. The cut should radiate from the centre of the indent. Repeat this step two or three times.

2. Push the knife into the side of the apple from where you want to put your mouth. The knife needs to point in the direction of the centre of the apple. When the knife reaches the core, twist it to create a bore to the centre, thus creating a means to inhale. Final Touches All that is left to do is to dry the top and use the pipe. To use the pipe, put the material to be smoked in the indentation and pack it as you would any bowl. Light it up and inhale with the hole in the side of the apple. Since the pipes do not keep very long, you should make one each time you want to use one. Once you are finished smoking, you can, if you wish, eat the apple.

Making a Tobacco Pipe from an Altoid Box Have you lost your one and only pipe?

Are you looking for something more interesting to smoke out of? Are you obsessed with Altoids? If you can say yes to any of the above questions, then you just came to the right place to learn the art of making a pipe from an Altoid box.

Materials Needed to Make your Pipe:

• One empty Altoid box

• Electrical tape (the black tape)

• A nail

• A hammer

• Something pointy (a screwdriver will work well)

• A pin/needle

• Aluminium foil

Step One

1. First, purchase a box of Altoids. Then gobble them all down at once, leaving you with an empty box.

2. Hammer a nail into the top of the casing where you want the 'head' to be. Then work in the hole with the pointy object to make the hole approximately 2cm wide, or wider, depending on what capacity you want the head to hold.

3. Next, cut a square of aluminium foil that will cover the hole made, and also make the aluminium foil an additional 2cm or so on all sides.

4. Place the aluminium foil over the hole, then seal the perimeter of the aluminium foil with electrical tape. Now take your pin/needle and poke several holes in the aluminium foil so that air can now flow into the box via the aluminium foil 'screen'. If you made it this far then well done, because that was the hardest part.

Step Two

1. Now you must use the nail and hammer again to create a 'mouthpiece' into the box. This is done by balancing the box on an end and hammering a hole into the opposite side.

2. For the finishing touch, take the electrical tape and attach it right next to the 'mouthpiece', then start to roll the tape around the box on the edges where air can still pass through.

3. The tape should wrap all the way around the box until it meets up again with the mouthpiece. Just be sure not to cover up the mouthpiece with the tape!

That's it! Now you can smoke your tobacco with it.