Who makes the best water pipes? Ask around in the glass community and Sovereignty Glass - sometimes abbreviated to SG or Sov - will be always be among the first responses. Steve is the mastermind behind many popular designs including the stemline, the pillar, and gridding. Sovereignty glassware puts out some of, if not the cleanest and most consistent production work in the industry, with perfect welds, clean lines, and sexy curves. As this is our first glass appreciation thread it's important to lay down some ground rules. Appreciation means exactly that, and this thread is about Sovereignty. Posting in here to say you don't like SG or to push other brands will likely be considered trolling and met with a warning. Since SG owners may frequent this thread it may be a good place to get answers from people who know, but please keep the overall vibe appreciation rather than Q&A. Pictures say it better than I can so let's get this started! Be sure to check out the SG threads on Tokecity and elsewhere to see some of the amazing work and progression over the years. I don't own a lot of glass compared to many, but the 60mm stemline with natural or 'natty' splashguard is an easy standout to me with its satisfying pull, ideal volume, and attractive shape. A great example of the beautiful marriage of form and function that Sovereignty is revered for. I was lucky enough to find one that works with the VXC sans adapter. A worked version of this specific stem12 is one of my top 3 dream tubes. Clearly I'm not the best person to start this thread, but someone had to do it!
Here are the 2 vids of my king stemline I filmed before I traded it for another piece. It was nice, but it was a bit tall for me, so I'm planning on picking myself up a natty splash stemline at some point. King stem with gnome & supreme: (it's blocked in some countries because of the music, sorry.) King stem with LSV: The heater cover needed to be changed, so the clouds aren't that thick, but it shows the king stem nicely
Looks like there is cork on the down stem joint, and no water inside. If I were to guess he was in the middle of cleaning his piece when he took that photograph.
Thanks, all of you are right! The bubbles are from a vintage bottle of Grunge Off I've been using every day for over a year. Snapped pic with iPhone 5 as bubble evaporated. The cork is something I'm working to bring to market in different colors and sizes especially for glass cleaning. This SG, Swanee, is one of my oldest most revered pipes. Perhaps the most beautiful tube I've ever seen and it hits and clears like Muhammad Ali.
Muhammaed Ali before or after Parkinson's syndrome? I kid, I kid . All pics in this thread are beautiful. I really dig the high end Sovereignty scientific pieces.
https://www.facebook.com/knickertoker http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ex3kO7FBez0&list=UU2aHHX6Kl7HEO32O2tOBV8w&index=16&feature=plcp
^ = best glass collection I've seen online. Anyone looking for some eye candy should check out his thread at glassdisrict. Knicker, if you're ever looking to sell your SG/Burtoni stemline collab... Modnote: No selling or soliciting items on the forum.
+1. You're right man, he has THE BEST glass collection I've ever seen and I couldn't believe it when I first saw it on GD (always had those awesome showdown videos showing the diffusion of several high-quality tubes). Props to you Knicker, I wish I could try out all those pieces with the Cloud. And your SG/Burtoni stemline is just beautiful...really.
Word. Couldn't believe it the first time I saw knicker's LW/Freek squidline bubbler. And now his new Banjo/Hitman Boba Fett oil rig. Sorry mods, the thing about the stemline was purely rhetorical; I'm sure I couldn't afford it if he wanted to sell anyhow. But yeah, about the only thing I could imagine wanting more than that Burtoni/SG is a Maka B/SG stemline or pillar (which has never existed as far as I know, but I can dream, right?)
ALT has a few Peyote's for sale. I rarely ever see them anywhere for sale. I have had one of these on my list of "wants". I'm wondering, Are they really worth the high price? And while I ponder I'm sure they will be quickly snapped up. http://aqualabtechnologies.com/scientific-glass/sovereignty-glass.html
Some interesting looking new designs from SG. Stemline to imperial perc. G-line. Maybe a little less displacement/back pressure than a normal stemline.
A worked Peyote Pillar will be my next and probably last glass purchase (assuming nothing happens to any of my current pieces). It has the most attractive shape of any glass tube I've ever seen. Does anyone know how many holes the peyote perc has and how many pillars are in it?
Never hit a Stem to inverted 4 or the prototype pictured above but I don't understand how the concept works in principle? The ceiling separating the two chambers is so close to the stemline that it would seem to impede bubbles from stacking? That's why I never bought one. MarvC, yo da man!
