Build a clay pipe in a home studio workshop. Two sessions, two hours each, with time to shape, finish, and fire it well.
Livingston & Washtenaw County, MI
Current dates, pricing, and session availability are shared directly when you reach out, so each group can be matched to the right timing.
Pipe Camp is a two-session workshop where you hand-build a clay pipe from scratch. The first visit is for shaping, drilling, and refining. The second is for surface, glaze, and final finishing after the piece has dried and been bisque fired.
It is intentionally small, direct, and hands-on: a real studio basement, real clay, and enough guidance to get a first-time maker through the full process without turning it into a crowded class.
Orientation, wedging, selecting your clay body
Hand-build the form — bowl, stem, mouthpiece
Drill the bowl and airway, check the draw, surface work
Pieces go on the shelf to dry. Bisque fired before Session 2.
Choose a glaze or leave raw. Apply, wipe, detail.
Final cleanup, sign your work
Pieces go in the glaze kiln. Pick up or ship when fired.
No. The workshop is designed so a first-time maker can complete a pipe with guided help at each step.
Dates are released directly by email so the next group can be scheduled around real availability.
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