Apprentice Toker's Guide to Bongs

yeah that's true, except i dunno who would make it, i am not experienced enough with all the brands/styles of any of the different smoking methods to write a sticky on them.

but it would be nice

 

for the different shapes of bongs and the different types of pers

Least Drag
Beaker
Bubble
Straight tube
Most Drag

For percs

Least drag
Many arm tree percs, the more arms the better
Hook Percs
Dome percs, i personally wouldnt even buy a dome perc they drag alotttt.
Most Drag

For ash catchers

Least Drag
Illadelph style inline
Many stemmed a/c
Single stem a/c
Inline a/c
Most Drag

This is what i can tell from the different peices I have.

Personally i wouldnt go taller then 18" or more then 2 percs or 1 perc with a/c

 

definitely sticky worthy

I was looking for something like this when I first joined. Glad someone took the time to do it well.

 

mad man, real good info

 

The bigger the whole.... the more air moves through it. Hence a pencil size hole will be harder to move air through than say a coke can size hole. Thats why I love my "Wet" Steamroller. Its like a bong on its side that has a rush the size of the tube....

 

im still new to smoking but i definatly prefer a bong over pipe or joint and i wish i had one, the last one broke . i checked out a local headshop but the cheapest they had which was 30 bucks was missin the bowl and the next up was 70 bucks im lookin for a price range anywere from free to 50 or 60 bucks tops is that an unreasonable range or should i just keep looking?

 

great guide. i would go online and find vids of bongs with percs and a whole bunch of mess i didnt get. thanks to this, i know what im looing for when i purchase my first bong.

 

i don't know if it's just me but that list relating to drag seems a bit inaccurate according to my experiences. this is how i'd list it.

Least Drag
Straight tube
Beaker
Bubble
Most Drag

For percs

Least drag
Many arm tree percs
Hook Percs
Dome percs
Most Drag

For ash catchers

Least Drag
inline a/c
Many stemmed pill bottle a/c
single stem pill bottle a/c
Most Drag

for bowls

Least Drag
pinched bowl
turbo bowl
regular single small hole bowl
Most Drag

for diffusers

Least Drag
slitted
D cut
puncture
Most Drag

 

Thanks, this was really helpful

 

Agree fully

 

anyone ever hear of pulling the downstem out to clear a bong hit ?

 

Um, I am pretty sure the downstem is attatched to where you cant use it as a slider, unless your slider broke, you don't have money and rig it up. When i tried rigging, it never ammounted to anything worth even using. I ended up just buying another slider. When someone mentioned why bongs clear better with sliders, than if the bong had a carb, i would say its because of there is more of a water/air flow. Usually carbs are small. Who knows i could be wrong.

 

Because you just want to inhale the air that's in the bong, and with a hole letting more air in the smoke is more diluted, and it takes longer for you to "clear" the bong of smoke.

 

nice guide.... gotta teach that ettiquete.

 

haha yes

 

What type of glass for bongs should I stay away from when buying a bong and what are hard to break kinds of glass?

 

I agree fully with this, OP should have this one, not jeff's

generally speaking, the thicker the glass the better off you are. A friend of mine bought the mad scientist (the bong that is almost always featured on GC), which, was a great piece of GonG work. The big problem with it, though, is that the glass is super thin like 3 or 5 mm. I just bought an illadelph straight tube that is 7 or 9 mm thick.While this doesn't sound like a huge difference, it definitely shows. My friend's Mad Scientist broke after two uses while it was in the box, and bubblewrapped. All I can say to you is that if you go to your headshop and find two bongs that you really like, with comparable prices and quality, go for the one that is heavier/has thicker glass.

smoke on
- J

 

+Reps. sweet, thanks for the info everyone

 

if you need a step by step on how to rip a bong...then..well i dont even know what you should be doing. not smoking probably.