Who Prefers Tips?

[Hassouni]

Lately I've been finding myself using either my VERY sturdy Elmas* or stiff, slightly larger Lebanese tips* with all my hoses. I never used to use tips at home before, but I find it helps the draw stay focused, almost like using a straw vs drinking out of the bottle. This seems to be pretty normal in Turkey. Anybody else use tips at home when smoking alone? Am I crazy? I'm thinking of getting one of these real amber tips from Turkey...

 

 

 

*like these:

 

 

(I do NOT like the flimsy clear plastic ones)

[mushrat]

Never used anything but the plastic ones my self. Prefer just to use my own hose but....

[Hassouni]

Yeah, I mean what I'm at home, with all my hoses....

[joytron]

I am starting out slow. So right now, it is just the tip for me. 

[Pavo21]

well just any more then just the tip can lead to certain things. 

 

But i do have crown pieces that i like to use, if im not using my elmas 

[â€On]

I am starting out slow. So right now, it is just the tip for me. 

 

Don't want to get too tender, gotta ease your way in. 

[king_lunchb0x]

they look nice, more durable than plastic..wonder how heavy they are and how secure they will sit in the hose. I liked the coco tips cause they didn't restrict the flow. But those elmas ones looks like beefy tips.

[Hassouni]

They're not really that big, but the plastic is VERY tough and sturdy. They don't really restrict the airflow either

[Stuie]

I use them when I cycle through to my metal or wood tipped hoses. Prefer acrylic mouthpeices.

[Hassouni]

I just find the tips easier to smoke from, which I realize sounds odd. Turkish and Egyptian hose mouthpieces are too big for my liking. Lebanese wooden mouthpieces are about my upper limit for comfort - I sometimes use tips in those, sometimes not.

[mustang67n]

I love tips.. I pretty much live and survive off of my tips, without them I'd need a different job, or a major pay increase.

[Bawhee]

I love the default size and shape of the elmas hose cause I smoke off the edge of my lips.

[hookah hippie]

I personally don't use an additional tip on my hose, but I have tried the flatter wide ones and think that they work better if that's your thing

[Chreees]

You're talking about the Coco Tips, Hippie, which are made by Coconara. Those are by far the best tips I have ever used. I keep some on hand for my germophobic friends.

[Stuie]

I love Coco Tips! Best ones on the market in my opinion, but I have big bucket of all kinds, I take whatever I pull out. 

[Fouda]

do you use tips everytime stuie? Ill use em if I'm sick and Sharing a hose or if a friend is sick ill give them a tip that the stick in when the take a hit other wise I don't bother with em

[mattarios2]

I either use my orb crown tip or the small sturdy plastic tips Hass posted. I got a bag of 500 of them for free when I ordered my Kafesli. They should last a while because I re use one for like 6 months easy.

[hookah hippie]

I suppose you could just clean the tips too by soaking them in iso alcohol or perhaps in the dishwasher, thought for all those who are trying to save some dough.

[mattarios2]

I would agree, just worry that after a while the plastic may break down and cause some issues that I think we all would like to avoid lol.

[hookah hippie]

I wouldn't know too much about the decaying of plastics.  Although I have some plastic mouthpiece like items that I clean every once in awhile with ISO and it seems to be pretty solid. 

[HookahAbroad]

I use tips exactly like the one you showed as well as meerschaum tips made by Elmas.  They do help me keep a nice draw and pace to smoking and I also don't feel like my slobber is getting into the wood tip of my Elmas mouthpiece.

 

[Bawhee]

I have to say that I see no problem with the draw on my elmas hose, but Ill try using a plastic elmas tip tomorrow when I smoke and report back :)

[Hookah-burgar]

Hassouni, I have been trying to get one of these real Amber "Tipsi" lately, but buying from Turkey is not easy at all, except with Nargilestore, which does only carry the Elmas made Meerschaum tips or what appear to be false amber ones ("Katalin tipsi"). I hope Hookahabroad will help us... 

I hope to get two decent size pieces of amber so as to have a complete Agizlik mouthpiece custom made (by Elmas) with real amber (like the older ones), but in the meantime I would love to get my hands on a real amber tipsi, at a reasonnable price, like the ones seen on Ketenciler website...

[Hassouni]

Hookahabroad is in the same city as Ketenciler, so maybe she can help us 

[Hookah-burgar]

Yes she leaves in or near Konya and buys stuff from Ketenciler Nargile (besides buying from Elmas in Izmir)...

Now, isn'it frustrating that most vendors in Turkey would offer the possibility of seeing prices in Euros or USD, and sometimes seeing most of the website in English but would not answer your mails, not even in Turkish and, when contacted, through Turkish speaking frineds, would admit that they do not sell or send items abroad!!! I understand ordering from Elmas (Izmir) is not easy at all. I quickly turned to Elmas Originale, their oficial shop in Germany, which is expensive but quite convenient for those of us living in Europe, and I now buy from Nargilestore. But most other Turkish sites (Tokel Nargile, Sultan Nargile Mazemesi and many others are not easy to deal with... in 2013!!!)