Pay $1,200 for a Water Pipe? Are You High?

The glass glows dull red, like a campfire ember, above the gas torch. The
young artist, sitting on a stool in front of a wooden bench with a metal
top, works with confident, quick motions, creating a tube by fusing white
glass sticks together around a one-inch-thick cylinder of graphite.

James Lynch, 27, has an average build, short, light-brown hair and a goatee.
He's wearing Birkenstocks, a black T-shirt, shorts, and sporty-looking
didymium shades that mute the searing orange and blue light of the torch. He
soon moves on to a spherical glass shape, holding it over the flame by
pencil-thin rods of glass, his fingers inches away from potential
third-degree burns. Gloves wouldn't allow him the kind of control he needs.

"My hands are always a little bit red and cooked by the end of the day," he
says.

One of the rods is hollow, and, at times, Lynch sends a puff of air through
it to the sphere, expanding and shaping it. His workspace is filled with
rods of raw glass, forceps, large tweezers, an old butter knife, rubber
tubes, and other equipment.

Nice article . . . from my home-town of Phoenix! Gosh, I recall a few
"Head Shops" back in '66-'67.

= Judy =

On Aug 29, 6:35 pm, JudithSco...@webtv.net (Judy Scobee) wrote:

Amazing article. sounds hot to me, but that'sjust me.
With head shops disappearing in the East, when we were in Cali for my
sons retirement from the Navy, I told him I needed a couple of new
pipes. He took us to a HUGE head shop on the beach. They had an
amazing aray of all kinds of stuff. Lots of junk too, but I did score
some cool pipes.
My fav,however has such a small opening in the stem that ya can't
clean it with a pipe cleaner. Any ideas?
OH

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Squirt some butane through it. :)

Hmm?! ya might want to try a needle or needle wrapped with cotton to
clean it.

= Judy =