Nice works Gypski, I like your choice of a ancient medium to make the pipes out of. The most I have made was a coconut chalice, got the coconut at the Latino market (most of the coconuts I see in supermarkets are unsuitable), chopped down the bamboo with my machete but I bought the kutchie (bowl piece) it was handmade though, I would have made the kutchie but but the only person I know with kiln access a Sculptor named Ming Fay (can probably find his art online) I haven't seen in about a decade so felt a little weird showing up not knowing if he would remember me or not to request access. Shame too because I know where to harvest fresh clay, some cool shit too, it is a Grey color but fires to a really nice red from the iron content I believe.

Anyways, cracked my Coconut some time ago and haven't gotten around to crafting again, always busy with something it seems, plus some of the antique tools I have collected over the years have been lost, so I am doing my work with not-my-first-tool-choices.

here's a pic of a random coconut chalice I just googled, new computer so don't got any pix of mines on it..

edit:: oops first upload attempt failed, adding another pic too, I want to figure out how stands like these are made. I just use a cast iron thingamajig (wow spellchecker didn't even flag that word!) that I found in this old dilapidated house years ago at a colonial village tourist destination. We started walking through the woods and found out there were all these old crumbling foundations from the original village, the tourist site was just all new constructions and some restored ones too, where we went was, out of bounds so to speak
RedLocks Reviewed by RedLocks on . Billion Years This bowl is a billion years old in the universal time clock. Ok, I needed some reason to post a photo of a bowl I just got finished making and inlaying. Yeah, I've been smoking out of it during the course of its finishing. Kind of like putting life in it. Anyway, the catlinite is about a billion years old, and the gold in the wire inlay could also be just as old. And for that matter, the genus cannabis is a few million years old at least! :cool: Only a stoner could think like this I Rating: 5