man i threw the exact same pipe together out of tubes i found in the scrap bin in manufacturing class and they looked exactly like that and i used an actual head shop pipe screen and it still tasted like ass and made my throat sore i also did the soaking in alcohol method, since its a staight tube the hits arent that fat because the smoke doesnt have time to build up or cool down in a chamber, unlike a glass pipe in witch all the holes are really small and you get fat hits, so yeah trash that ghetto pipe lay down a 20 and buy some quality glass