I have this horrible tendency to work renaissance faires. Unfortunately, an electronic device really doesn't look good in period-correct clothing, and so when I quit smoking, I realized rather quickly that I had to come up with an alternative. The problem is that a Renaissance-period pipe is a small clay pipe, usually not much bigger than a fingertip-sized pipe bowl. I could do a slightly larger variation, but not by a whole lot.
So I sat and thought, and I thought and sat. And finally, I realized that hey, I had these Joye 510's sitting around that I hadn't used since the beginning of my vaping habit (not, mind you, that it's all that long ago, but it seems like forever).
My original thought was to form a polymer clay pipe that would be wide enough for me to hide the body of the 510 inside of it. I did not take into effect the fact that polymer clay shrinks, and this left me with a pipestem that was a little too narrow to fit the mini into it fully, and I couldn't get it far enough in to get the button into the hole I'd left on the bottom of the pipestem. Oops.
However, I still think that this will work, although I'll disguise the rest of the mini with some leather for visual effect. And so I thought I'd share what I came up with. It's not elegant, but for the purposes of period reenacting, it'll do. And in all reality, the length with the rest of the mini jutting out the back end of the pipestem is actually a preferable length, to me... so once I've prepped the leather cover for the back part, it ought to work just fine. (Now I just have to pick up a 510 tank atty and some tanks, because there is NO freaking way I'm going to use the cartridges for Faire. Ugh. Talk about torture. The tanks'll be bad enough. I'm going to miss my VV mods at Faire!)
So I sat and thought, and I thought and sat. And finally, I realized that hey, I had these Joye 510's sitting around that I hadn't used since the beginning of my vaping habit (not, mind you, that it's all that long ago, but it seems like forever).
My original thought was to form a polymer clay pipe that would be wide enough for me to hide the body of the 510 inside of it. I did not take into effect the fact that polymer clay shrinks, and this left me with a pipestem that was a little too narrow to fit the mini into it fully, and I couldn't get it far enough in to get the button into the hole I'd left on the bottom of the pipestem. Oops.
However, I still think that this will work, although I'll disguise the rest of the mini with some leather for visual effect. And so I thought I'd share what I came up with. It's not elegant, but for the purposes of period reenacting, it'll do. And in all reality, the length with the rest of the mini jutting out the back end of the pipestem is actually a preferable length, to me... so once I've prepped the leather cover for the back part, it ought to work just fine. (Now I just have to pick up a 510 tank atty and some tanks, because there is NO freaking way I'm going to use the cartridges for Faire. Ugh. Talk about torture. The tanks'll be bad enough. I'm going to miss my VV mods at Faire!)
