Swim made a homemade hookah the other day and since it cost him next to nothing to make figured he would post.
Materials:
Huge plastic pretzel jar (Utz's, etc.)
4 or 5 feet of vinyl tubing (can be found in plumbing section in various sizes)
Some type of bowl piece (swim got his piece from a broken bong, r.i.p.)
Swim's step by step:
1. Cut tubing into three pieces. One long enough to reach the bottom of the pretzel jar from the lid and two longer ones for the hoses of the hookah .
2. Created hole in center of lid to pretzel jar wide enough to fit the stem of the bowl piece.
3. Created two holes parallel from each other on sides of pretzel jar, inserted hoses and sealed with gorilla glue (stuff is amazing for just about anything).
4. Lightly glued bowl piece to lid of pretzel jar.
5. Took first tube and fastened it to the stem of the bowl piece (swims tube fit snugly over the stem, which was great cause he didn't have to glue or tape anything).
6. After all glue dryed, swim filled with water up to the tube, called up his bud and they smoked bong load, after bong load out of the new and extremely efficient hookah.
Swim hopes that someone finds this useful.
On a side note, the plumbing section of your favorite hardware store can give one a lot of ideas for homemade pieces.