Scarmouche the Crystal King

[ApoC]

At long last, the final pieces have arrived and the Crystal King of Narghileh Kingdom is finished. BEHOLD!

[img]http://www.acp-products.com/scetch/scarmouche_king.jpg[/img]

The only future plans include a blue flame hose cover, although I *may*
not use it depending on how it looks (these mya hoses look so good with
the gold thread wound into the hose). The hose heads unscrew, so now I
basically have the perfect hose setup. The bowl is a colored pyrex
double from hookah-hookah, thats pineapple in there (smoked great with my new japanese coals, mmm good!)

[ApoC]

*oops that SCARAMOUCHE, typo there. f**kin forum still doesnt have edit function? Come on mods... 

[alen]

Really nice hookah you got there

[ZooJohnnyZETA]

Wow! That is one stunningly beautiful hookah you have there ApoC! 

But I must ask you... how does the glass bowl smoke?

 I have seen companies like Hookah Brothers and so on selling
glass bowls on their hookahs, but I have always been skeptical of
actually using one.

 It seems as if the chemically inert properties of glass help give
you a more flavorful smoke, but I have always worried about the glass
breaking so I shyed away from them.

 All logic would say that having foil pressed against glass and
heating it to a very high temperature could easily cause the glass to
shatter. That being the main reason I have always avoided buying a
glass bowl... well... that and because I always thought of glass bowls
being more of a "marijuana paraphenalia" sort of thing.



So what I was really wondering is, "How does the glass bowl smoke
compared to a standard clay bowl? Is the smoke more flavorful? Does the
bowl get extremely hot? Etc.?"

[cypress]

Congrats. This is a fine looking hookah. Take care of this piece of artwork. 

[ZAP]

Johnny, the bowls are made of Pyrex not glass!  Glass would
shatter but pyrex has been made to withstand high temperatures and
sudden temperature change.  Glass would shatter almost instantly
if you placed a piece of coal on it but pyrex will not.

People even make pyrex screens so you dont have to use foil.  I
would love to have one but I can't find any online.  I really hate
the metal screens.  With the pyrex ones, you'd be able to see if
the tobacco is burning or if you have overpacked easily.

Anyway, back on topic:

That is a nice looking hookah!  Did you build it yourself or did you just paint it?

[TheRevolvingMonk]

Pyrex is a type of glass that's just made specially to be strong and heat resistant.

[ZooJohnnyZETA]

Okay, well, maybe I should have rephrased my question here.

 I know all about pyrex glass... hell, I spent 6 months in glass
blowing glasses a few years back and made several vases and plates out
of pyrex.

 Good thick pyrex is very strong and heat resistant. But the key
word here is "resistant". It resists heat, but under enough heat it can
and will shatter.

 I've seen a pyrex bakeware pan get taken out of the oven and set
on a windowsill to cool, only to be greeted by the sound of exploding
glass 10 minutes later when the winter breeze from outside reacted with
the heat of the glass.


Pyrex is great...but its deffinately not unbreakable and can/will
shatter under certain levels of heat. If the glass is at all thin
(under 3mm thick) and not properly layered I would think the heat of a
coal combined with it being pressed up against foil would cause it to
shatter after enough use.



  So I was just wondering what people's personal experiances with
pyrex glass have been? Have you ever had one of these bowls crack or
shatter? Or have they all worked just fine?

[cypress]

I am pretty sure this type of pyrex has been tested for this type of
use. I am not familiar with the properties of pyrex (the
engineering/scientific ones) but I dont think a coal can generate
enough heat to shater it. My dad has such a rough layer of skin on his
hands he can actually move a Golden Coal around on my bowl with his
fingers. Obviously he dosnt just keep it in one place but its definatly
1 coal is not generating 400 degrees to the whole bowl. I think the
main thing for pyrex is not to cool it too fast or in this case place
it in water to clean it imidiatly when done.

[HAKOOH]

Very nice looking Hookah you got there. Good job on the build. Definately looks like a pricey piece of art. 

[ApoC]

the bowl is very thick, I'm supprised by the quality actually, its
exceptional. I would LOVE a pyrex screen, if anyone knows where to get
one let me know!

[RuarriP]

Beautiful hookah...just ditch the Pyrex.  Where I'm from, the only
people using glass bowls are crackheads.  Besides, clay is the
basis of traditional art, and nothing says classy like art.