Custom E-Pipe - Help - Need Advice

[Khurram96]

Hi, I'm Khurram, film student based in Paris, I'm here looking for help with a functional e-pipe prop.

I need a vape pipe, that looks like it is made of wood, and under the brim, there is a circle of shadowy demons dancing.

Inside the chamber, I need stones that look like coal, and underneath them, red/orange lights, that can be remotely turned on and off with a dimmer for intensity. So it looks like embers. Or if remotely not possible than with a hidden button on the pipe.

its for a student film. Any help on how to have this made before June Please.

 

[retired1]

Found this on my first search: Epos handmade e-pipes and pipes

You should be forewarned, what you're asking for is not going to be cheap. Unless your film budget is comparable to what studios allocate, you may want to lower your vision a bit.

 

[somdcomputerguy]

Welcome to ECF, Khurram. I hope you find what it is you're looking for.

 

[bombastinator]

@retired1 makes a point. Such a thing would have to be custom hand built. So $300+ ( maybe way plus) even modding the pipe you have is going to suck. The best move for that is hide a cigalike inside it. You want an old style cigalike battery. You need to drill out the stem to take the battery, then run an old style carto to it which you hide in the bowl of the pipe. That will also need drilling. The thing probably isn’t big enough to hold a full old style cigalike. It may not even be big enough to hold the “ bent” one I am describing. Measurement will be key. If it IS big enough to hold the whole thing you could just drill it out and make it effectively a shell for a disposable. This may not produce enough “smoke” for you though, and you lack the other flexibility you get from one you control the juice of. You could get an old style pre disposable cigalike of the type I started on, and do it that way. If you can find one. You would be looking for a really original early system like a 510. 510 cigalike batteries are still made, (their connector became a standard) so you could get a battery that wasn’t dangerous ( the old ones will be by now). If you CAN fit a whole cigalike inside the pipe body you just fill it with pure vegetable glycerine (thicker smoke, no nicotine). I think it can be DIYed if the pipe is big enough. It would make the pipe a permanent prop. It would never smoke tobacco again. And it will be a moderately terrible device with a short life. You will need to put in a fresh battery frequently.

So Drilling, soldering of fine wire, possibly gluing (avoid this if possible, and if not use hot glue which can be peeled off and reapplied) and a couple or 6 hours.

The first step is measure the thing, find out what wood it is made of (pipes like to use weird and very hard woods which may require special treatment for drilling)

If you can arrange separate shots you could have that one as the “hero” pipe and another less nice on as a “stunt pipe” shot from farther away. If you can do that a “stunt pipe” becomes potentially much cheaper.

The Chinese like pipes with really small bowls that look like pot pipes. You may be able to get ahold of one of those and “build up” the outside and then paint it. The stem is actually easy. Such things are sold.