Make a Smoking Device out of Anything

If you have something to smoke, but nothing to smoke from, you can easily craft a smoking device out of household objects. They are easy to make, and can be fun to smoke out of. Fruit, pens, or water bottles can solve your smoking crisis.

Steps

Using Fruit to Smoke

1. Select a hard fruit or vegetable. An apple or zucchini are good options. Make sure you choose a fresh fruit that doesn’t have soft or rotten spots.
2. Carve a bowl to hold your smoking material. Use a small paring knife to cut a depression out of the top of the fruit.
3. Use a skewer to create a hole from the side of the fruit to the center of the fruit. A kitchen skewer works well for this purpose as it is long and thin with a sharp point.
4. Connect the hole to the bowl with a skewer. Poke a small hole through the bowl to connect to the channel in the side.
5. Blow through the hole. Make sure that air can flow between the depression carved for the bowl and the hole. Remove any chunks of fruit that appear when you blow through the hole.
6. Line the bowl with aluminum foil. Poke small holes in the foil using a safety pin. Lining the bowl will help keep your smoking material dry from the moisture in the fruit while the holes will allow smoke to pass through.
7. Pack your smoking material into the top of the fruit. Fill the foil lined depression with the substance you are smoking.
   • Light the material with a lighter while you inhale through the hole poked in the side.

Using a Book to Roll a Smoke

1. Get a book with very thin paper. A book with pages like a bible is a good choice for this purpose. A book printed on rice paper is the best option.
2. Tear out a page with a small amount of printing on it. The ink may add unwanted chemicals to your smoking experience.
3. Cut a rectangle from the page. Cut a small rectangle approximately 2 inches long by 1 ½ inches wide.
4. Fold the paper in half lengthwise. Make a crease in the center of the paper to hold your smoking material in the center of a “V” shape.
5. Add smoking material to the paper. Place a small amount of crumpled smoking material in the V of the fold.
6. Roll the paper between your thumbs and index finger. Create a rolled cigarette by pinching the paper in the middle and roll it between your fingers.
   • Roll the material towards one end of the paper and wrap the paper around the smoking material.
7. Lick the end of the paper gently to seal the cigarette. Use your saliva as a glue to stick the paper to itself.
   • Seal the ends of the cigarette by twisting the paper gently to keep the smoking material from falling out.
8. Light one end while inhaling from the other end. Breathe in slowly as you light the end to get the paper and smoking material to begin to burn.

Smoking From a Pen

1. Find a pen with metal tip. Pens that are made completely from plastic will melt if you attempt to smoke, so the metal tip is important to prevent the plastic from melting in the heat.
2. Disassemble the pen. Take the pen completely apart to obtain the metal tip and hollow shaft of the pen.
   • Unscrew the tip from the pen.
   • Remove the writing tip, ink chamber, and spring mechanism.
   • Remove the back end of the pen.
3. Place the metal tip in the pen backwards. Insert the narrow end of the metal tip into the hollow shaft of the pen. Push it in as far as possible to create a seal between the pen and the metal tip. You can use a lighter to melt the plastic slightly to force the tip to bind to the end of the pen.
4. Fill the metal pen tip with smoking material. Place a small amount of smoking material in the pen tip carefully to avoid breaking the seal between the pen and the tip.
5. Light the smoking material and inhale. Breathe in through the end of the pen while you light the smoking material contained in the metal tip.

Making a Large Chamber Smoking Device

1. Find an empty water bottle and a pitcher. The water bottle becomes a chamber for the smoke while a pitcher filled with water provides suction to draw the smoke in.
2. Cut the bottom of the bottle off. Use scissors to remove the bottom of the water bottle. The bottle should be able to sit flat, so make sure you cut in a straight line.
3. Form a bowl with aluminum foil. Use a small square of aluminum foil to create a bowl on the top of the water bottle. Gently push the aluminum foil down into the drinking hole of the bottle, and then wrap the extra foil around the sides of the lid. Use the tip of a thumbtack or an earring to poke small holes into the bottom of the aluminum foil bowl.
   • Make sure the foil does not wrap too far around the inside of the lid because you’ll need to be able to lift it off to smoke.
4. Fill the pitcher with water. Put enough water in the pitcher to cover 2/3 of the height of the water bottle. When placed in the pitcher, the top of the bottle should extend about {{safesubst:#invoke:convert|convert}} above the water level in the pitcher.
   • With the foil on top of the bottle, slowly lower the open bottom of the water bottle into the pitcher.
5. Pack the bowl. Place your smoking material in the foil bowl on top of the bottle.
   • If you lower the bowl and bottle into the water filled pitcher after filling the bowl, you risk the air pressure created blowing your smoking material out of the bowl.
6. Light the bowl and fill the chamber. Use a lighter to light the smoking material and start it burning. As it burns, slowly lift the bottle in the water. As you pull it up, the negative air pressure will pull smoke into the bottle. Stop before the bottom of the bottle comes completely out of the water and carefully remove the foil bowl.
7. Inhale the smoke. Put your mouth on the top of the bottle to breathe in the smoke. Slowly push the bottle back down in the water to force the smoke into your mouth.
   • The slower you pull up, the more the bottle will fill with smoke.
   • Don’t let the bottle come completely out of the water or the smoke will dissipate in the room and you won’t be able to smoke it.
   • When the bottle reaches the bottom, inhale to clear all the smoke. As you inhale, the water will rise up into the bottle. Stop inhaling before the water gets to the top of the bottle so you don’t end up inhaling the water.

Tips

• Put just enough smoke into the bowl or papers. If you over pack the smoke, it will be harder to burn and not smoke as well.
• Choose organic fruits and vegetables to smoke from to avoid the possibility of inhaling any harmful chemicals.
• Choose the blank pages usually found in the front or back of a book to use for rolling a smoke. This eliminates the possibility of inhaling any harmful ink.
• Change out the aluminum foil bowls frequently and clean the two liter regularly on the large chamber smoking device.
• Instead of aluminum foil for the fruit bowl, you can use a screen from a kitchen sink.
• Using aluminum foil can be harmful for your lungs. This can be dangerous and should not be done frequently.

Warnings

• Be careful lifting the two liter for the large chamber smoking device. The aluminum foil on the sides of the lid will be hot and could burn your fingers.
• If the smoking material gets wet, it will be hard to smoke.
• Some smoking material may be illegal in certain countries and states.

Items Needed

Fruit Bowl

• Fruit or vegetable
• Knife
• Skewer
• Aluminum foil
• Safety pin or thumbtack
• Lighter or matches

Book Cigarette

• Book pages
• Scissors
• Lighter or matches

Pen Pipe

• Metal tip pen

Large Chamber Smoking Device

• Empty plastic water bottle
• 2 Quart pitcher
• Aluminum foil
• Knife or scissors
• Safety pin or thumbtack
• Lighter or matches

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