[dirtybongwater]

When I saw these bongs I knew I had to share them with you guys. They are really quite amazing. I think these would make for THE best headshop/smoke shop! It really is a shame it isn't legal in America. I'm sure MJ bars would be full of pieces like this as well as the more upscale glass.

These bongs were made by Eric Doeringer. I'm not linking to his site because you can buy the plans to these pieces ($200 a pop); I doubt it matters, but I want to be safe. There's a small blurb about the piece under each picture.

Untitled (Red) is a bong for up to four people. In addition to the smoking appatatus, the piece includes four fake fur beanbag chairs which I designed and manufactured.
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Each smoker has their own acrylic mouthpiece and a personal smoking unit -- a 10" acrylic tube outfitted with a bowl and carb. These are connected to the central unit by flexible red tubing. In the central unit there are twelve red acrylic tubes (24", 40", and 50" -- each smoker uses one of each length) These tubes may be filled with varying amounts of water, depending on the user's lung strength.<o></o>
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Each of the four stations is completely independent. There is no crossover of smoke between the participants and no minimum number of people needed to generate enough suction.

Untitled (Blue and Light Blue) is one of the newer bongs. I recently retooled the design to make it sturdier and improve the water seal. The piece consists of thirteen vertical tubes arranged in a circle, rising to a height of over eight feet. It features two smoking stations which operate completely independently (i.e. smoke is not shared between users). <o></o>

The upper (light blue) parts of the tubes are filled with water. An air pump produces a constant stream of bubbles in the odd-numbered tubes (see diagram at below left). When the pipe is smoked, the user causes the remaining tubes to bubble.<o></o>

The bowls are located in tubes #4 and 10. If the pipe is smoked from #4, smoke is filtered in the upper part of tubes #2 and 6 before returning to the upper part of #4. Water may also be placed in the lower part of tubes #4 and #10 for extra filtration.

This close-up shows one of the smoking tubes (#4). The bowl is in the center tube near the bottom of the photograph. An air pump creates bubbles in the tubes to either side, although the bubbles are too small and fast-moving to show up in this photograph.<o></o>

Untitled (Blue) is designed for up to two users and is the first of my bongs to feature moving parts. It has a remote lighting/carb system controlled by two levers. The acrylic tubes are transparent blue. Other pieces are made out of translucent blue and blue mirror plexiglass.<o>

</o> Users inhale from the two tall tubes at the rear of the pipe. The bowl is contained in the large horizontal unit at the front. There is a second unit at the heart of the piece which has two levers. One lever activates a lighter in the front unit, the other releases a carb.<o></o>

Smoke travels from the long tube in the front unit to the two shorter elevated tubes. Then it moves out of the front unit and into the small upright blue tubes (where it is filtered by water), through black tubes in the central unit, and finally into the tall blue tubes at the rear.

Untitled (Grey) is a water pipe for one to six people. The color (a little difficult to see in the photographs) is a transparent grey. Smokers inhale from the outer ring of acrylic tubes. There are three rings of acrylic tubes and a central unit built of clear acrylic that holds a large bowl which is shared by all of the smokers.<o></o>

This drawing provides a birds-eye view of Untitled (Grey). The blue circles and red lines illustrate the smoking apparatus for one person. Marijuana is placed in a large bowl at the center. Coming out of the central unit, the smoke goes through two flexible tubes. One connects to a 10" acrylic tube in the center ring and the other to a 16" acrylic tube in the middle ring. The smoke is filtered by water in the acrylic tubes and then passes through more flexible tubing into a 32" acrylic tube in the outer ring.<o></o>

Each tube (except for the central unit) is filled with water. In addition to filtering the smoke, the water provides resistance. The resistance is necessary so that if there are fewer than six smokers air will draw through the bowl, not the unused tubes.

Untitled (Purple) is both a gravity bong and illuminated fountain. When the user pulls up on the bowl, water drains out of the top of the fountain, sucking air (or smoke if the bowl is lit) into a large chamber. When the bowl is lowered, water begins to fill the chamber again, forcing the smoke out through the mouthpiece at the bottom of the fountain.

Untitled (Red and Yellow) is designed for a single user. The smoke is inhaled from a horizontal tube which runs the full length of the piece. Smoke is carried from the bowl to the two upright yellow tubes at the far end of the piece. It is filtered by water in the yellow tubes and then travels through the eight red tubes (which can also be filled with water) and into the horizontal tube.

Happy 4/20 Grass City!