In the spirit of the Show Your Pots and Cups thread, who's willing to show off their yerba enjoyment apparatus?
My latest set, done in gen-u-ine silver.
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The gourd is beautiful
... but what's the name of that color your hand turned to? Chartreuse, mauve, magenta, pomegranate, violaceous, purple? And why is it that color? Is the rest of your body also that color? Is this pigmentation the result of camellia sinensis consumption or the result of yerba mate consumption? Is "the change" inevitable for the rest of us too? Or do all white people in Mississippi look like this? Did you emerge from a pod?
It's people. Soylent Violet is made out of people!
... but what's the name of that color your hand turned to? Chartreuse, mauve, magenta, pomegranate, violaceous, purple? And why is it that color? Is the rest of your body also that color? Is this pigmentation the result of camellia sinensis consumption or the result of yerba mate consumption? Is "the change" inevitable for the rest of us too? Or do all white people in Mississippi look like this? Did you emerge from a pod?
It's people. Soylent Violet is made out of people!
Compared to Padre's gourd, mine is like a gourd picked up off the ground with a pop can melted to the rim.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v247/ ... egourd.jpg
The site says that it's a 4 oz gourd which means that 4oz of dry yerba by volume will fill about 2/3 the gourd. It probably holds 5oz of water.
The finicky wooden mate: http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v247/ ... enmate.jpg
I boiled it like a yixing pot, the sap came out, and now it seeps out the side, but it's been slowly sealing up with every brewing. Holds about 4 oz of water.
And the retired bamboo mate: http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v247/ ... ogourd.jpg
Soaking and drying out causes bamboo to crack, and this one is on the last fiber before it splits. So, it just serves as a pretty bombilla holder. It once held 4oz of water.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v247/ ... egourd.jpg
The site says that it's a 4 oz gourd which means that 4oz of dry yerba by volume will fill about 2/3 the gourd. It probably holds 5oz of water.
The finicky wooden mate: http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v247/ ... enmate.jpg
I boiled it like a yixing pot, the sap came out, and now it seeps out the side, but it's been slowly sealing up with every brewing. Holds about 4 oz of water.
And the retired bamboo mate: http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v247/ ... ogourd.jpg
Soaking and drying out causes bamboo to crack, and this one is on the last fiber before it splits. So, it just serves as a pretty bombilla holder. It once held 4oz of water.
Last edited by Warden Andy on Mar 12th, '08, 13:22, edited 1 time in total.