Hola From Boston

[Lorena F. Palin]

Hi all! I'm from boston, go to massart, love hookahs to death. I also love screwing around with bottles and a dremel making hookahs or hookah-like tobacco water pipes. I need a better glass cutting bit/more practice/to build a water siphoning system from a water bottle for lubrication/heat controll because the results are kind of fragile and ghetto. Came here for advice on better construction techniques. I'm also thinking about doing some stuff with hooka's as real sculptural multi/media pieces, with lights/projected images on the smoke inside the glass, sculpting components, and all sorts of crazy gadgetry.

[Stuie]

Welcome!!!!!

Be sure to read the rules!

Sounds like you got some great ideas there. Can't wait to see what you come up with!!!

[Lorena F. Palin]

[quote name='Stuie' date='25 February 2010 - 01:38 PM' timestamp='1267123134' post='453722']
Welcome!!!!!

Be sure to read the rules!

Sounds like you got some great ideas there. Can't wait to see what you come up with!!!
[/quote]

No worries, I did. Sadly my two favorite pieces are, well, in pieces. One, a newburry comics penguin turned into a tobbacco water pipe (no coals, so not a hookah) that sadly didn't draw due to the air volume being way to high with the mouth opening being way to small (one the mouth of the penguin, so it looked like you were making out with it) and the other (mini-hookah, orangina bottle) had cracks in it from when I drilled the holes (or just sort of hacked in with a small grinding wheel from a dremel, I need a nice conical one for more precise work) and broke . I'm trying to find cleaner ways of sealing gaps than hot glue, thats the main thing keeping my pieces from looking professional.

I also have schematics for a hookah to be mounted on my motorized bicycle that will run off engine heat (just bolt a copper thingy to the cooling fins of the engine, make everything from metal/plastic, glass on a ghetto moped is not good)