First of all, This project is ridiculously easy. The thing can look really artistic and beautiful or really really awful, depending on what kind of bottle you use. I lucked out and found this "Sofia" bottle my parents left at my apartment last summer, but any bottle will work. The more common design on the internet is based on a Goldschlager bottle. Where i live, a single hosed hookah runs around 50 dollars. I wanted to derail that cost and see how cheaply I could make it. This thing totaled fifteen dollars.
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To make this, go to your local hardware giant and bring the wine bottle you want to use. Get a section of copper pipe that fits into the neck of the bottle as close to snugly as possible. It needs to be long enough to come near the bottom of the bottle, so the water stays as far away from the hose as possible. I don't even know what diameter my pipe is because I tested a few and chose the best fit. This size will differ bottle to bottle. Also, get a 1/2 inch glass cutting drill bit. They're a little expensive, so try to find someone to borrow one indefinitely from. You'll also need a drill. You'll obviously need a wine bottle, but try to get one whose mouth is nearly the same diameter as the bottom of your bowl, to make putting everything together a little easier. This can be worked around, but it will look best if you do it this way. If you follow my 1/2 inch glass bit directions, get 1/3 inch nylon tubing, also available at your preferred home improvement warehouse.
The friend who gave me the idea to build this in the first place said he knew of a way to make a bowl, but then described some pretty sketchy sounding engineering involving clay pots and hemp thread. I bought my bowl for 5 dollars from a faux hippie store in the mall. It was the most expensive part I paid for. You'll also need a rubber nipple, termed a "sleeve" that is sold either online or at a smoke shop, that serves as a seal between glass hole and nylon tube. You'll also need a plumbing piece found near the nylon tubing called a brass hose barb or hose mender, if you want your mouthpiece to look like mine. You'll also need a roll of electrical tape. Here's all that in list form.
-(1) Glass bottle
-(1) length of copper pipe that fits into the bottle snugly.
-(1) length of 1/3 inch nylon tube
-(1) rubber hookah sleeve
-(1) ceramic hookah bowl
-(1) roll of electrical tape
-(1) 1/3 inch brass hose barb
-(1) corded drill
-(1) 1/2 inch glass cutting carbide drill bit
-(1/2) brain
The friend who gave me the idea to build this in the first place said he knew of a way to make a bowl, but then described some pretty sketchy sounding engineering involving clay pots and hemp thread. I bought my bowl for 5 dollars from a faux hippie store in the mall. It was the most expensive part I paid for. You'll also need a rubber nipple, termed a "sleeve" that is sold either online or at a smoke shop, that serves as a seal between glass hole and nylon tube. You'll also need a plumbing piece found near the nylon tubing called a brass hose barb or hose mender, if you want your mouthpiece to look like mine. You'll also need a roll of electrical tape. Here's all that in list form.
-(1) Glass bottle
-(1) length of copper pipe that fits into the bottle snugly.
-(1) length of 1/3 inch nylon tube
-(1) rubber hookah sleeve
-(1) ceramic hookah bowl
-(1) roll of electrical tape
-(1) 1/3 inch brass hose barb
-(1) corded drill
-(1) 1/2 inch glass cutting carbide drill bit
-(1/2) brain
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Were can i buy one online?
Water comes out of copper pipes and the
Copper would not get hot enough to leach any
Toxins .
As for rotating your pictures, any photo/image editing software will do this, or try visiting a site like http://www.resizr.com which allows you to edit your images online. Then upload the rotated versions to your Instructables "image library" and replace the images in the i'ble with the rotated versions.
Thanks for this one.
L