jtemes Posted September 15, 2006 Share Posted September 15, 2006 i tried the search engine didnt find much. I wanna know what everyone thinks about wooden iranian hookahs. I finally found some sweet persian stores in Vancouver and one is selling a beautiful wooden hookah for 70$. Not a bad price. Oh ya and i was talkin to the owner and he was tellin me that on each 50gram box of tobacco he has to pay 11$ tax importing it into canada. its ridiculous. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SanguineSolitude Posted September 15, 2006 Share Posted September 15, 2006 not unless the tax is like 300% which would be ridiculous.wooden hookahs? thats oldschool, ive never even seen one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PersianPride Posted September 15, 2006 Share Posted September 15, 2006 Yeah I've seen them in Iran but even there they are being replaced by the metal stems. The wooden ones tend to absorb a lot of the smoke flavour and effect taste down the track. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jtemes Posted September 15, 2006 Author Share Posted September 15, 2006 ya...thats wut i was afraid of. but they have such a unique look. i love it. if i was rich id buy it just for decoration. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
.ryan Posted September 15, 2006 Share Posted September 15, 2006 [quote name='jtemes']Oh ya and i was talkin to the owner and he was tellin me that on each 50gram box of tobacco he has to pay 11$ tax importing it into canada. its ridiculous.[/quote] FYI the PST in BC on shisha is $0.179/Gram, the federal excise duty is $0.0598/Gram, and the general duty is 4% of whatever value they decide to make up. All in all it's about $232.98/kg plus 4% of the total value.For the mathematically challenged that equals a grand total of an arm, two legs, and the shirt off your back. p.s.Don't forget the handling fee! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gumonshoe Posted September 15, 2006 Share Posted September 15, 2006 jtemes: did you happen to go to The Persian Tea House on Davie near Granville?If you haven't... go check it out. He sells some nice hookahs and shisha. Owners name is Hamid. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bleeding_Heart1 Posted September 15, 2006 Share Posted September 15, 2006 Wooden hookahs are the shit. I absolutely love them. They were my first hookah i have ever smoked out of and no other hookah has tasted the same. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skimo Posted September 15, 2006 Share Posted September 15, 2006 couldnt you still have the stem wooden with a metal stem in the middle? i dont see how that would effect the flavor as long as theres a metal stem in the middle of the wood Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Dude Abides Posted September 15, 2006 Share Posted September 15, 2006 Mesquite shisha. That's tight.Yeah, I once thought about getting a wood pipe just for ornamental purposes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DCShisha Posted September 15, 2006 Share Posted September 15, 2006 I think having a wooden hookah would be really cool if you had a particular flavor (maybe 2 but nothing too strong) that you dedicated the hookah too. If the inside of the stem was indeed wood, it would start to develop a flavor of its own--kind of like aging wine/whiskey barrels. You would probably have to run something abrasive through the stem to keep nasty shit from groing inside--especially if lots of shisha juice dripped down the stem. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sonthert Posted September 15, 2006 Share Posted September 15, 2006 Wooden hookahs were designed to be used with actual pipe tobacco. Newer maasel contains alot of glycerine which is vaporized and makes glycerine vapor, which refluxes on the sides of the pipe and stays there, since glycerine doesn't vaporize appreciably. It gets absorbed into the wood and makes the wood expand and finally split since it doesn't evaporate. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DCShisha Posted September 15, 2006 Share Posted September 15, 2006 Hmm, makes a lot of sense. Nice having someone around who knows what he is talking about. [quote name='Tangiers']Wooden hookahs were designed to be used with actual pipe tobacco. Newer maasel contains alot of glycerine which is vaporized and makes glycerine vapor, which refluxes on the sides of the pipe and stays there, since glycerine doesn't vaporize appreciably. It gets absorbed into the wood and makes the wood expand and finally split since it doesn't evaporate.[/quote] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sonthert Posted September 15, 2006 Share Posted September 15, 2006 Yeah, wooden body hoses with metal cased tips have this problem, all the time. The wood swells, splits and the metal tip comes out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jtemes Posted September 15, 2006 Author Share Posted September 15, 2006 [quote name='gumonshoe']jtemes: did you happen to go to The Persian Tea House on Davie near Granville? If you haven't... go check it out. He sells some nice hookahs and shisha. Owners name is Hamid.[/quote] no i havent been there yet. apparently there is a new one on Georgia and Jarvis. Drove past it. looked nice. i think ill have to check out both very soon. What are the prices like at Persian Tea House for shisha? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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