oh yeah here's an idea it was my first pipe and it worked just wonderful. take a hulla hoop and you use a lighter and about every inch or so heat it up til it can be bent (right before it starts actually melting) and what you're going to do is a series of this about an inch apart the whole length of the tube, putting it in a pan or pot of water after every heating and straightening....by the end you will have a semi straight tube...doesn't have to be perfect just kinda matter of opinion....now you make a bowl (i took a square peice of a coke can about 1 x 1 inch and formed it into a bowl by making a cone shape and kind of molding it from there then poked holes with a tack) and there you have it a nice sturdy pipe.....i used that for about the first three years of my pot life.