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Pictorial Nargile Users Guide Turkish water-cooled smoking Pipes A-Z A picture-guide to nargile components and accessories -- showing how to assemble, prepare for use, and enjoy them! Ten Best Nargile Smoking Salons Nargile Nirvana Mainpage Tobaccos and flavors... Turkish rugs, carpets, kilims Ottoman Empire Encyclopedia Illustrated Nargile Users Guide The definitive guide to modern-day Turkish water-cooled smoking pipes -- their components, their assembly and preparation, their use (including nargile etiquette), and their care Unassembled nargile components, accessories, tobacco, and charcoal 'fuel' All items in this users guide are available for sale individually or complete and ready for easy assembly and use [as shown here] in a variety of designs, colors/colours, and sizes. Click to view our price-list of 'easy to assemble' nargile models. The gövde [body in English] is made of decorative glass or ceramic material -- and it's where the filtering water-cooled smoking pipe is housed. The boru [tube in English] fits snugly into the neck of gövde. The harsh unfiltered smoke flows through this tube from the lüle [pipe bowl] to the water-cooled smoking pipe in the gövde, where it is naturally-filtered -- and its temperature greatly reduced. The boru fits through the neck of the gövde. When the boru is fully seated in the gövde, it must form an air-tight seal. These items are the tepsi and the maşa [baseplate and tongs]. The ruzgarlık [windbreak] may be placed on the baseplate near the end of the assembly procedure. The tongs (which may be attached to the tepsi by a thin chain) are used to handle the charcoal [mangır], whenever necessary. Placing the tepsi and the maşa All items in this users guide are available for sale individually or complete and ready for easy assembly and use [as shown here] in a variety of designs, colors/colours, and sizes. Click to view our price-list of 'easy to assemble' nargile models. The tepsi and maşa in place... This is the clay lüle [pipe bowl]. Placing the lüle... When the lüle is in place it must form an air-tight seal. The marpuç [smoking tube] consists of several sections -- a hard section that connects to the nargile boru, a longish flexible section (made of leather) that leads to the nargile handle, and the imame [mouthpiece] section. Inserting the marpuç into the boru. All items in this users guide are available for sale individually or complete and ready for easy assembly and use [as shown here] in a variety of designs, colors/colours, and sizes. Click to view our price-list of 'easy to assemble' nargile models. When the marpuç is properly inserted into the boru it must form an air-tight seal. These items are the imame and the sipsi [mouthpiece and 'reed' in English]. The imame is the hard mouthpiece (cum handle) section of the marpuç (made from kehribar [fossil resin] in fine nargile). The term comes from the same shape of the imame section of Islamic prayer beads. The sipsi is a disposable sanitary plastic device for 'puffing' the filtered nargile smoke. When the sipsi is properly inserted into the imame it forms an air-tight seal. These sipsi devices allow several people to smoke the same pipe -- with each person using his or her own sanitary sipsi puffing device. A box of vacuum-packed capuccino-flavored tütün [tobacco] Placing the tütün in the lüle The tütün in the lüle All items in this users guide are available for sale individually or complete and ready for easy assembly and use [as shown here] in a variety of designs, colors/colours, and sizes. Click to view our price-list of 'easy to assemble' nargile models. Covering the tütün with folyo [tin-foil] is necessary with flavored tobaccos -- which tend to be 'wet'. Foil is not necessary with traditional-style Tömbeki tobacco. Perforating the folyo with any thin, sharp object -- allows the charcoal to burn wet tobacco, but stops wet tobacco from putting out the charcoal. One of these charcoal disks called mangır ['coin money'] is ideally suited for a typical 30-40 minute nargile smoking session. But, just about any kind of non-smelly charcoal is fine for the job. A nargile uzman [expert] holds the mangır (while he lights it) with a maşa (tongs). The lit mangır is placed on the perforated folyo using a maşa. The uzman 'primes' the lit nargile (while an aficionado looks on) with a series of long, deep puffs through his sipsi. Before long, the cooled and filtered smoke is seen above the water-cooled smoking-line in the gövde, and then begins to reach the smoker's mouth. This item is a ruzgarlık [windbreak], and is not always used -- unless it's breezy. The ruzgarlık in place, protecting the smoldering charcoal A fully-assembled nargile, ready to smoke A modern-day nargile aficionado enjoys an ancient tradition... And, it's always 'try before you buy' at our Gümüldür sales-outlet.