Not glass but real old schoolie here- just made a steamroller-style nectar collector out of white mulberry wood I’ve been drying for a few years after cutting some branches in the yard. Primary use is for tool and knife handles but I figured why not try making a couple pipes? Next up is a Moroccan kif-style pipe as soon as I can find a thin drill bit long enough and use my friend’s drill press, though I might try doing it the traditional way, by burning it out. In my case with a stainless steel bicycle spoke, a homemade jig to keep everything tracking straight, and a propane torch to keep the spoke heated, I might try adding a heatsink of some bolts wired around it to keep the operating temp up.
Hand sanded, finished with food-grade toasted walnut oil and local beeswax, torched in to sink it. The titanium banger is from an original borosilicate Nectar Collector V2 my friend broke at my apartment many years ago. I didn’t pick a good piece and it had a few cracks that reach the bore, so I sealed those up with some Titebond II wood glue, since this is just a vape with all the heat concentrated up in the banger and not a bowl for combustion. It’s FDA approved food-safe for indirect contact when cured and the recommended thing for gluing up cutting boards, so I figure that’s fine, I’ll pick a better blank next time.
