Yeah, the only thing I'm wondering is if it still sounds good without the pickup. I mean, I do have a pickup for an upright bass already, but with an awesome instrument like that, I'd probably want to use it acousticly (like playing on street corners with friends).

It is really cool. I'm sure that when I show the video to my dad he'll help me make it.

Here's my homemade hookah. It hits great.
[url]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v428/BPMead007/08-26-06_1354.jpg[/url]

We got a vase at goodwill and stuck a cork in it, punched 3 holes in the cork, stuck this weird funnel used to pour wine into bottles into one of the holes, put two segments of stainless steel piping into the other two holes, and attached plastic tubing to the steel pipes.

[QUOTE=Led-Zeppelin]Here's my homemade hookah. It hits great.
[url]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v428/BPMead007/08-26-06_1354.jpg[/url]

We got a vase at goodwill and stuck a cork in it, punched 3 holes in the cork, stuck this weird funnel used to pour wine into bottles into one of the holes, put two segments of stainless steel piping into the other two holes, and attached plastic tubing to the steel pipes.[/QUOTE]Hahaha. Potheads. :thumb:

That's awesome. Nice job.

Lol, a guy got mad at me on a cannabis forum for smoking weed out of a hookah instead of flavored tobacco. I told him I chewed bubble gum while I toked it and that made him especially mad.

[QUOTE=Led-Zeppelin]Lol, a guy got mad at me on a cannabis forum for smoking weed out of a hookah instead of flavored tobacco. I told him I chewed bubble gum while I toked it and that made him especially mad.[/QUOTE]

Awesome. Hey, could you write a proper instruction-post on how to make one of those? It sounds awesome.

So I've been using spray paint for all my stencils up to this point but I"m think of swithching over to fabric paint but the only thing I don't know is how well will it show up on black fabric?

Will it be as bright, or will it be blended in like spray paint gets?

i almost always use white on black with fabric paint. just it needs a couple of layers before it wont see through.

What colours should I use to make stencils for a camo jacket?

I want a big Johnny Thunders one, for starters. I'll probably use this image (but without the text, that was just the first version of it I found):
[url]http://www.cherryred.co.uk/books/images/johnnythundersincold.jpg[/url]

No idea what colours to use to make it stand out on the camo though..

Some things on this site are good for DIY. [url]http://www.wikihow.com/Main-Page[/url]

[QUOTE=coheneran]Awesome. Hey, could you write a proper instruction-post on how to make one of those? It sounds awesome.[/QUOTE]
It's pretty much all there in my first post. Should I make a diagram or something?

EDIT: Here:
[url]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v428/BPMead007/psychedelic/hookah.jpg[/url]

Materials:
Vase or other large class vessel
Cork
Something for the bowl (we found an oddly-shaped metal funnel at Goodwill)
Two stainless steel pipes
Two segments of vinyl tubing
Marywanna

Avoid using plastics, copper, aluminum, or other cheap metals. My friend and I actually argued for a while about whether that vinyl tubing was okay to use. I would have preferred some stainless steel braided tubing but eventually gave in due to the cost, and the fact that only cooled smoke would be passing through them. Glass is the best possible material for any part.

These should all be easy to find, the only places we went for this were goodwill and the hardware store, so you should be able to build one wherever you live. I believe the total cost came to about ten dollars (except for that nice 1/8th of purple haze ;)).

That's a very large cork. It looks real good by the way. I'd love to have something like that, but it's difficult to conceal.

Yeah, we're keeping it in a chest in the woods.

just steal some stuff from chem lab. believe me it is worth it to have a pyrex beaker, a stopper, and a few straws

Well, I was really thinking about that last year when I had chemistry. You and your lab partner have a designated drawer with all the stuff you use (except chemicals) in it. There was a time when the people next to us weren't there, so potentially I could have taken an erlenmeyer flask. I wish I had.

Florence flasks though, if you've seen them, are so perfect for bongs. They literally are bongs, except without a hole drilled for a bowl.
[url]http://img5.ranchoweb.com/images/flowerdew2/f.flask.jpg[/url]

yeah but they are incredibly expensive to buy. we just grabbed an erlenmyer and we also grabbed a metal peice. luckily there was no camera in the room and w just pushed it in our bags while our pot smoking teacher was not looking. i am sure he would have figured what we were doing if we had gotten caught.

Would he have cared?

[QUOTE=Jon]What colours should I use to make stencils for a camo jacket?

I want a big Johnny Thunders one, for starters. I'll probably use this image (but without the text, that was just the first version of it I found):
[url]http://www.cherryred.co.uk/books/images/johnnythundersincold.jpg[/url]

No idea what colours to use to make it stand out on the camo though..[/QUOTE]

That'll look cool. Johnny Thunders is awesome.

Don't people know that a hookah is just a fancy water bong? with tubes.

Actually a proper hookah uses charcoal to keep the tobacco lit, and the advantage to mine is that my friend and I can get high in half the time because we can take simultaneous hits.

A Palestinian friend of mine told me that a nargilla (what you in your ignorance call a hookah:p) doesn't actually need water, it's just a tourist thing to make it seem more exotic. It's an elaborate pipe, okay?

My Arab friend got a hookah from his grandma when he was like 12 or 13. It was pretty sweet.

Yeah, I was pretty sure the water was optional for hookahs. Also, I remember in England, they had these places that looked like restaurants, but when you go in, they just had couchec with big hookahs on the table and signs advertings "shashi" or something, which I later discovered was flavored tobacco.

[QUOTE=Jon]What colours should I use to make stencils for a camo jacket?

I want a big Johnny Thunders one, for starters. I'll probably use this image (but without the text, that was just the first version of it I found):
[url]http://www.cherryred.co.uk/books/images/johnnythundersincold.jpg[/url]

No idea what colours to use to make it stand out on the camo though..[/QUOTE]
Any advance on what colours to use?

I have black and fluro-green fabric paint, I'm guessing they won't show up on camo.

For camo I'd go with a bright red or bright blue.

I'd go red myself.

Just made the stencil and did a quick mockup of how it will look.

I had to do it in Imageready because for some reason Photoshop won't work, so its probably not as good as it will be

[url]http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y194/jondz3003/jt001.jpg[/url]

Do you think its recogniseable as Johnny or shall I go with
[url]http://www.stencilrevolution.com/photopost/showphoto.php?photo=42039&cat=502&si=johnny%20thunders&perpage=8[/url]
?


(I based this stencil off of
[url]http://www.voodoovenue.com/images/DVD/incoldblood.jpg[/url]
instead of the image I said I was going to use)

Maybe glam rock people would recognize him, but I don't.


Although the fact that it says Johnny Thunders right on it, might show people.

[QUOTE=Jon]Just made the stencil and did a quick mockup of how it will look.

I had to do it in Imageready because for some reason Photoshop won't work, so its probably not as good as it will be

[url]http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y194/jondz3003/jt001.jpg[/url]

Do you think its recogniseable as Johnny or shall I go with
[url]http://www.stencilrevolution.com/photopost/showphoto.php?photo=42039&cat=502&si=johnny%20thunders&perpage=8[/url]
?


(I based this stencil off of
[url]http://www.voodoovenue.com/images/DVD/incoldblood.jpg[/url]
instead of the image I said I was going to use)[/QUOTE]

Kickbutt dude, kickbutt.

Would the stencilrevolution link I posted be better?

I like the Stencilrevolution one a lot.

I searched the thread and couldnt find it but does anyone know what shoe companies dont use slave labor. I think new balance doesnt but I'm not sure. I know this isnt DIY related but this was mentioned before.

[QUOTE=Jon]Do you think its recogniseable as Johnny or shall I go with
[url]http://www.stencilrevolution.com/photopost/showphoto.php?photo=42039&cat=502&si=johnny%20thunders&perpage=8[/url]
?[/QUOTE]
I think it kind of just looks like a general face, but the "Johnny Thunders" in the corner should help. The sprayed stencil looked good though.

[QUOTE=Converge#12]I searched the thread and couldnt find it but does anyone know what shoe companies dont use slave labor. I think new balance doesnt but I'm not sure. I know this isnt DIY related but this was mentioned before.[/QUOTE]

Here you go mate:

[url]http://nosweatapparel.com/[/url]

Have fun shopping.

[QUOTE=Jon]Would the stencilrevolution link I posted be better?[/QUOTE]

Yeah, I would go with the stencil revolution one. It's more recognizable.




I have a question. Does anyone know how to fade a pair of black jeans to give them more of a grayish-black color?

Time. Lots and lots of time.

[QUOTE=Ghostfire3]I have a question. Does anyone know how to fade a pair of black jeans to give them more of a grayish-black color?[/QUOTE]
Just get some at a thrift store.

[QUOTE=Converge#12]I searched the thread and couldnt find it but does anyone know what shoe companies dont use slave labor. I think new balance doesnt but I'm not sure. I know this isnt DIY related but this was mentioned before.[/QUOTE]
I've kind of been wondering about New Balance also. Wikipedia says they have five manufacturing plants in the U.S., but the lower-end shoes are made in Asia.

Seem better than average, at least.

Like I said, [url]http://nosweatapparel.com/[/url], [url]http://nosweatstore.com/[/url], and [url]http://www.nosweat.org.uk/[/url] though they seem to be offline for a bit.

Yo Eran, I took a photo today of a vintage Exploited flyer, they were playing at some tiny village hall in Hendon or something. All handwritten and stuff.

You want me to upload it?

Also, Nargilas only need water as much as bongs need water, they do the same job.