Elmas Nargile 639

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[b]Elmas 639: Büyük Tuğralı/Dünyalı Tuğralı[/b]

[b]Total Pipe Height:[/b] 31” with bowl, 28" without, 35 maybe with windcover?

[b]Stem Construction:[/b] Heavy brass, pretty much solid, but joined out of two pieces (top half, bottom half)
[b]Heart:[/b] Traditional closed
[b]Grommets: [/b]Hockey tape

[b]Pull: [/b]Restrictive but exceptionally smooth
[b]Purge:[/b] Nonexistent
[b]Appearance: [/b]Awesome!
[b]Cleanability:[/b] Never tried, but my Elmas 628 got pretty tarnished in a little over a year - not awful, but def not shiny anymore, and it took a lot of elbow grease with some toxic smelling metal polish.
[b]Price:[/b] Shipping + another hose was about $150 from Turkey. The pipe itself was about $75
[b]Purchased From: [/b]nargilestore.com

[b]Overall:[/b] 10/10 This is the taller version of the 618, and is called Büyük Tuğralı (which makes sense, as it means "large tuğralı") by Nargilestore, or "Dünyalı Tuğralı" by the Elmas website, which doesn't make sense since it means "spherical tuğralı." It looks beautiful, and is perfectly proportioned with the oversize Elmas glass, more so than the 628 or the 618, which look a bit small on the glass. The glass itself weighs almost 3 pounds, the stem almost 4. The hose is about 2. When it's filled with water and has everything on it, it's over 10 pounds - heavy stuff!

The smoke is basically the same on all the Elmas nargiles, it's really just an aesthetic and price thing which one you go for. Something about the pipe and the hose creates the smoothest smoke - it's restrictive, but it pulls so easy and concentrates the flavor.

Awesome.

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