this was my first KM hookah - I can tell you after a year it hits amazing - I since have bought another KM - my 2nd was a KM oxidized ceramic beast from another vendor - This hookah has a better pull than the beast; however i will say this about the hookah - after a while it looks dingy - be aware this is a pharonie with "oxidation" which is more like paint than a permeant look - that being said if you like the look of it be careful handling it - the middle, where i tended to grab it just began to look nasty - so i decided to polish it the "oxidization" came off like face paint!! I'm not even joking - so i decided to just take it all off - similarly the paint on the base came off quickly - it only lasted a month but i smoked it on the weekends only so imagine it will come with in a week of using it daily - the only thing that stayed was the black paint - so with a basically a pharonie with a mix matching base which i feel as though was just a generic base rather than a KM base - fortunately when i received my ceramic it came with a beautiful KM base! however the grommet and the stem did not fit with it, the phaornie did and my god its a beautiful set up as it matched better than it did the original bases the two came with - if you like the look of the oxidized phaornie clean it with a micro fiber towel thats how i clean my ceramica and it look great - however I'm not sure if the silver will hold up - I cannot give this hookah a bad review as it smoke wonderful and its pretty hard to find a copper down stem hookah so that alone makes the purchase a good one - happy smoking -