Building My New Hookah

[jr215]

As some of you have seen posts of.. I have recently started with my next hookah build. This is a ground up, 100% custom hookah made to my likes and personal taste. That said I want to hear you guys opinions on what is best and will look best.

This whole build started when I ordered a vase. Now this vase is a 10" blue bohemian crystal vase with gold leaves painted on. [url="http://imgur.com/3TfXM"]http://imgur.com/3TfXM[/url] thats what it is going to look like.

My next steps include (in order): a stem, a tray, a bowl, a windcover, and lastly my hose.



For stems I have a few choices that appeal to me

KM original trimetal
The El Nefes Pasha



Next will be my tray. Now to set my hookah apart I plan to not buy this tray, but rather make it out of a middle eastern metal plate. Here are a few of my favorites so far

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-engraved-and-painted-copper-Turkish-plate-/330796551622?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item4d0502cdc6
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Syrian-Hand-Etched-Solid-Metal-Brass-Plate-10-/280970581734?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item416b26d6e6

The bowl will come next. A phunnel of some sort. possibly the blue surfer alien phunnel

For a windcover thats pretty plain. It's going to be gold with some design on it. maybe El Nefes brand

Lastly for the hose. Either a KM beast or a Namoor long, wrapped handle with removable glass tip. Blue/black/white in color?



If you read through all that, what are your thoughts, ideas, contributions. After this hookah is built I will be posting pictures for all to see (and if you point me to a great deal or the perfect part you will be mentioned).
I appreciate all of the insight I will recieve!!!

[Skoozle]

If it were me, I would go with the el nefes and the Turkish tray.

A KM on a vase that nice is kind of a waste of a vase. Like putting a high end paint job on a work truck.

The Turkish tray because with the other one, you would have to drill through the important part of the picture.. the Turkish tray is more of a pattern than a specific scene. No one would miss the flower in the middle.

Bowl and hose; ehh, whatever smokes good.

Oh, and go with the el nefes wind cover. I got one for one of my Syrian pipes and it looks great. It's probably usless, but it looks great.

[mustang67n]

also be careful with the stem length. My Km's downstem is too long for a 10" base

[jr215]

As horrible as it may sound, I will take a hacksaw to any shank if I like the stem enough

[KasbahBazaar]

Chopping a downstem isn't a big deal as long as you don't care about it being irreversible. On a side note, I got the call from FedEx that the vases will be delivered at 10AM so you'll get your tracking for the vase sometime during the day

[Chreees]

Well this shouldn't surprise most of you that know me, but I think a nice Syrian shank would look great on that.

[Pavo21]

i got one of those bases from kashba also, its red and gold and im using it with a KM halzone trimetal and the base only needs about 1.5 inches of water or you will almost have a werid amount of water in the base. but its nice

[jr215]

Al Nawras Amirat Al Sham stem on its way.

http://www.google.com/imgres?um=1&hl=en&safe=off&sa=N&biw=1920&bih=938&tbm=isch&tbnid=9ziNAD2ipqngMM:&imgrefurl=http://www.kasbah.us/index.php/31-al-nawras-amirat-al-sham-brass-hookah-w-12-amethyst-bohemian-vase.html&docid=846EF1qkljq6BM&imgurl=http://www.kasbah.us/media/catalog/product/cache/1/image/360x480/17f82f742ffe127f42dca9de82fb58b1/2/0/20120830_122622.jpg&w=360&h=480&ei=Id1fUMP6JpL3yAGnsID4Cg&zoom=1&iact=hc&vpx=176&vpy=120&dur=301&hovh=259&hovw=194&tx=110&ty=135&sig=116847196487994036223&page=1&tbnh=141&tbnw=106&start=0&ndsp=52&ved=1t:429,r:0,s:0,i:74

[Chreees]

Beautiful! You will be most pleased with it.

[jr215]

Now to order a hose, bowl and windscreen and lifes good ;D