Clay for a Day…

[mikethompson]

In honor of St. Patrick's Day, A Meer and a Beer

 

[didimauw]

Some nitpicking on clay and sepiolite. From the geological point of view Clay and sepiolite are not to be equated with each other. They are totally different in respect to their properties.

Clay is a unique combination of the clay minerals kaolin, illite, chlorite, sepiolite, and smectite. It’s a heterogeneous mixture of those elements. It needs to be burned at high temperature to keep the hardness and shape like clay pipes, pottery… do.

And clays are much cheaper, I like mine,
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Sepiolite is a mineral with a characteristic needle shaped crystal structure. “It is a rare mineral with the chemical composition Mg8[(OH)2| Si6O15]2· (4+8) H2O and thus chemically a water-containing magnesium silicate with additional hydroxide ions. According to its crystal structure, it belongs to the phyllosilicates.”

I like this one. Where'd ya get it?

 

[didimauw]

I actually find holding a clay bowl is a great help for slowing down one’s cadence.

Slowing down is for sissy's. Big clouds!!!

 

[kcghost]

Nope, not me!!

 

[CoffeeAndBourbon]

Some nitpicking on clay and sepiolite. From the geological point of view Clay and sepiolite are not to be equated with each other. They are totally different in respect to their properties.

Clay is a unique combination of the clay minerals kaolin, illite, chlorite, sepiolite, and smectite. It’s a heterogeneous mixture of those elements. It needs to be burned at high temperature to keep the hardness and shape like clay pipes, pottery… do.

And clays are much cheaper, I like mine,
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Sepiolite is a mineral with a characteristic needle shaped crystal structure. “It is a rare mineral with the chemical composition Mg8[(OH)2| Si6O15]2· (4+8) H2O and thus chemically a water-containing magnesium silicate with additional hydroxide ions. According to its crystal structure, it belongs to the phyllosilicates.”

All clay minerals are phyllosilicates and there are hundreds of different clay minerals.
Most clay minerals are formed from the alteration of other (less stable) minerals due to weathering.

Kaolinite primarily comes from altered Orthoclase (or another high K feldpsar)

Clay minerals are often called garbage can minerals by geologists as they can contain damn near any of the elements.

Yes - many years studying geology (more than I care to admit)

 

[UB 40]

I like this one. Where'd ya get it?

I have been working with clay to restore half timbered houses with clay fillings here in Germany for some time. We didn’t try to fix them with meerschaum.

And of course there is a lot of online material that leads you right into geological stuff and minerals using the phone.

 

[Ahi Ka]

And, what a specific tabak tastes like when free of the influence - both good and bad - of the Briar or Cobs in a collection of smokers.

Unless you are the sultan of smoke. @JimInks told me he doesn’t use clays as he tastes the material in the smoke

 

[Ahi Ka]

Slowing down is for sissy's. Big clouds!!!

In my mind’s eye, I imagined you sticking your hand out of the window of a steam train and pulling the fingers while blowing the horn at me while you zoomed past interrupting my zen like training for the big clay off

 

[BarrelProof]

In my mind’s eye, I imagined you sticking your hand out of the window of a steam train and pulling the fingers while blowing the horn at me while you zoomed past interrupting my zen like training for the big clay off

His blaring AC/DC completely wrecking your downtempo Koto music. So inconsiderate.

 

[Ahi Ka]

His blaring AC/DC completely wrecking your downtempo Koto music. So inconsiderate.

Funny, cos Phil Rudd (the drummer) lives just up the road

 

[BarrelProof]

Funny, cos Phil Rudd (the drummer) lives just up the road

Is “the road” the highway to hell?

 

[Ahi Ka]

Is “the road” the highway to hell?

Well considering the main road here has the most fatalities per kilometre in all NZ, then yeah, unfortunately I guess it is.

(Way to kill the party vibe ahi)

 

[anotherbob]

love clays but hate how they're so prone to breaking. I swear I've broken a clay pipe by looking at it too hard.

 

[RustiePyles CPG]

Gumby is not impressed with your cultural appropriation...

 

[JimInks]

Unless you are the sultan of smoke. @JimInks told me he doesn’t use clays as he tastes the material in the smoke

True. I have three unsmoked clays here, and unsmoked they will remain, at least by me. Two of them are nice ones.

 

[Michigan_Bill]

I mostly smoke clays. Occasionally MM hardwoods. Briars only sometimes. Clays just taste good to me. (Well actually the tobacco in the clays, to be pedantic about it.)

 

[Benanajammin]

I picked up one of the Old Dominion Williamsburg clays as my third ever pipe and it's been serving me well though I find tamping the canted bowl can be troublesome at times. Love using it for Piratefest and medieval fairs.

 

[The Clay King]

Slowing down is for sissy's. Big clouds!!!

@didimauw I've noticed clay pipe smoking re-enactors like to make big clouds when being photographed; people like to see me blowing big clouds of clay pipe smoke
I think people like to see me blowing smoke out of my nostrils as well...

 

[The Clay King]

I picked up one of the Old Dominion Williamsburg clays as my third ever pipe and it's been serving me well though I find tamping the canted bowl can be troublesome at times. Love using it for Piratefest and medieval fairs.

@Benanajammin Me too!

 

[The Clay King]

love clays but hate how they're so prone to breaking. I swear I've broken a clay pipe by looking at it too hard.

@anotherbob I've lost count of how many clays I've broken but the good news is I haven't broken any since Nantwich My first clay was over 100 years old but it only lasted me about 2 weeks:-(