Just one quick question before I set sail. Is this http://www.everyonedoesi...mall.cfm?iProductID=2804 glass gauze fine for the job? It worries me a bit that the spice could bypass the holes around the star whilst sucking the pipe. what's your thoughts? use ash? or just a normal metal screen?

That's not suitable at all.
A Glass Vapor Genie with a Volcano Liquid Pad is ideal. Other wise, google "The Machine" or Look at getting a volcano liquid pad to stuff into a "steamroller" pipe.

DMT melts into a liquid before vaporizing, and while a liquid it likes to run into the cooler spots on a bowl/pipe.
Try pre heating any bowl/mesh, before pouring on the DMT to melt it slightly. This helps it stick to the Bowl/mesh while vaporizing as opposed to the powder simply falling through.

I hope this helps.

Just be gentle... your vaporizing it... not smoking it. Smoking it will not be nice at all.

Yes you dont want to light your spice directly, you can, if your using a bowl then just get some steel wool, but what you wanna get is the vapor genie or some kind of vapor pipe.

If you don't have a GVG, and don't want to spend the money for it, simply use a small glass pipe with at least 4 screens on top of each other. Make sure you use a torch lighter though, since you want to vape the spice. good luck!