If you need a pipe- MAKE ONE! If you look at a coke can or foil after you have smoked from it, you will see that it has changed. You have inhaled the aluminum. It is not good for you- do the research.

My local school uses low fire clay- it's cheaper to fire. Snag a bit of this and make a pipe. To fire it, stick it in a fireplace, wood stove, campfire- any fire that will go for more than a couple of hours. I have 2 pipes that I have fired in my wood stove. Just remember to let the clay dry out totally before you fire it.

Do you have a drill? Then you can make a wooden pipe. Use a hard wood, not soft pine. Take a little scrap of wood or a chunk of a branch, drill a hole length-wise with a skinny drill. Then to make the bowl, use your largest drill. I have a little "one hitter" made from manzanita wood. Lovely wood, the outside layer is the reddish color of an Irish Setter and the inner wood is cream colored.

Another pipe that I use a lot is the leg bone of a lamb (we had leg of lamb for Easter one year). I boiled the bone, scraped out the marrow, and scrubbed it some more. When it was dry, I drilled a hole in it and wedged a screen in it to keep the grass from getting in my mouth. Works fine after years of use and is a mellow golden ivory color from use.

Others have covered brass pipes made of plumbing supplies, so I won't. But use your imagination! There's a hundred ways to make a pipe! Be creative! We hippies were quite creative when it came to making our own pipes. What will you come up with? - Granny:hippy: