What's your best homemade piece? Here's my personal favorite, it's a mini pipe I made from a brass fitting as a stem and I used a socket wrench piece for the bowl, as the screen I used a little bit of mesh from my screen porch door...
You gotta be careful when lighting some metals with normal lighters,, may seem harmless but more times means more your smoking chrome acrylic if the soket wrench peices are shitty qaulity
Smoking threads don't belong in Pandora's Box on General, please keep them to the smoking sections. This is also a pretty common topic that comes up weekly, I recommend using the search function and contributing to existing theadsl http://forum.grasscity.com/toking-tools-qa/