Pedestrian's Official FULL Collection and Pickups Thread

I've made a couple threads in the past that included pics/videos of various pieces in my collection, and many people requested I post pictures of my collection in its entirety. So, rather than making a new thread every time I buy a new piece (which happens more often than it should) or have a new photoshoot, I decided to adopt the idea several members on this forum have implemented and just have one main thread that I continually add to every time I have an update.

I got my first piece about a year ago, and my interest in glass quickly progressed to an obsession, and now I'd consider it an addiction. So far, I have 40 bongs/bubblers, and have invested a little over $30,000 total, and though I could have easily bought a very nice car or something for that much money, not a day goes by where I don't stare and smile at my babies and think "yeah, it was worth it." I would even go as far as to consider myself an art collector, except the art I collect is much more functional and enjoyable (to me) than a painting or sculpture. I get just as much enjoyment out of looking at them and watching my friends enjoy them as I do using them myself. I truly respect and admire the work and artistry that goes into all their amazing detail, and I try to clean each one thoroughly after each use. And to this day, I have not broken a single one (knock on LOTS of wood).

So, to start off my official collection thread, I took pictures of every piece I currently own (as of 1/15/2011). Though it's almost impossible to pick favorites, I did my best to arrange the pics in order of my favorite piece to my least favorite (the ones near the bottom of my list I bought before I really knew much about glass, so you can see the gradual progression in taste and quality).

I hope you enjoy!


First, a couple pics of the whole gang:








And what I've dubbed the "reject table", lol:





A compilation video of some of them in action I posted a little while back:

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mkuH2ST4ev0]YouTube - Amazing Bong Collection (Over 40 Bongs/Bubblers)[/ame]




And the individual shots:



1) Tri-Coil Illadelph w/pyramid perc and matching ash catcher -



2) Worm/Big Z Collab:



3) Hamm piece with 14" handblown inline:



4) Fathead/Unknown Artist Collab:



5 & 6) Two bubblers by Matt Beale (the bigger one is about 2ft tall- the game box is there for size comparison):



7) Hamm Scientific Bubbler:



8) Zob w/ 4 adjacent 8-arm tree percs in one chamber (32 arms total) and 25/mm downstem:



9) Nate Dizzle Swiss Perc Bubbler:



10) Custom stemless tube w/"straw" perc and two disc percs:



11) Fathead "Calm Series" Inline Bubbler:



12) Toro w/two shower-head percs:



13) Olympic stemless w/disc perc and "pinch" perc and "separator" perc (the only names I can think of for them):



14) 9mm Illadelph w/ash catcher:



15) Name Brand bubbler w/shower-head perc:



16) Amsterdam Design Studios "Hookah-Bong":



17) PURE Glass stemless w/inline ash catcher (my first bong):



18) Zob w/10 arm downstem:



19) 9mm Heavy Glass w/8 arm perc:



20) 7mm Heavy Glass "artsy" tube w/8 arm perc:



21) Sherlock Bubbler by unknown artist:



22) PHX stemless w/honeycomb diffuser:



23) Bubbler w/handblown inline and shower-head percs (forgot artists name):



24) Carbonite tube w/3 arm perc and removable carbon filter:



25) Royalty w/8 arm perc:



26) Roor (no idea of its authenticity, but it hits very nicely):



27) Royalty stemless vacuum w/inline diffuser and double 8 arm percs:



28) Phire w/16 arm perc:



29) Phire w/inline diffuser and double dome percs:



30) 7mm Hydro Glass tube with 4 stacked 6 arm percs:



31) "Nessy" double bubbler:



32) Phire bubbler with removable triple downstem:



33) 10mm Royalty:



34) Inline Bubbler:



35) Stemless Bubbler:



36) Simple Bubbler:



37) Hammer Bubbler w/diffused downstem:



38) Royalty curved tube:



39) 7mm Royalty w/double spiral percs (I never use this thing, it's a drag monster):



40) 9mm Kong Saxaphone (this thing is fucking stupid; it functions better as a weapon rather than a smoking device):



Ash Catchers, Concentrates Skillet and Carbon Filters:

Edited by Pedestrian528, 17 January 2011 - 05:14 AM.

First!
There is defniately a reverse prograssion in your taste in glass.
im interested in seeing the straw perc in a milkvid. that angles you shot the picss from is amazing by the way. which jetpack a/c do you feel creates a smoother hit?

Edited by zxzDarkCloudzxz, 15 January 2011 - 08:37 AM.

Sweet collection.. This is so random but I'm pretty sure I have the same exact bowl as the one on the PHX stemless honeycomb diffuser. Did it come with an Illadelph tube?

The real question is when you want to go pack a bowl which one do you choose? haha

Dude nice collection, i wouldnt wanna get drunk around their, recipe for disaster. I hope you have them stored away and not on the shelf.
My favorites are the Nate dizzle and hamm inline. There all sick thats forsure.

I wanna see the 5 perc in action.

Edited by Hydroriffic, 15 January 2011 - 01:12 PM.

One of the sickest collections here on GC

First!
There is defniately a reverse prograssion in your taste in glass.
im interested in seeing the straw perc in a milkvid. that angles you shot the picss from is amazing by the way. which jetpack a/c do you feel creates a smoother hit?

There is a clip of the straw perc in action in that video I also posted, somewhere close to the halfway mark. It's hard to tell in the video, but when you have the water level just right, it sucks smoke and water up and bubbles it out of the top into the two disc percs. You can see it doing this more clearly after the tube is cleared.

Sweet collection.. This is so random but I'm pretty sure I have the same exact bowl as the one on the PHX stemless honeycomb diffuser. Did it come with an Illadelph tube?

Haha, that would have been quite the coincidence. That bowl actually came with my 9mm heavy, but I have a feeling that wasn't the original, and someone at the store may have just popped that one on for whatever reason.

The real question is when you want to go pack a bowl which one do you choose? haha

This is quite literally the most difficult part of my day. Sometimes I'll just stand in front of them staring for 30 minutes trying to justify which one I should use. Of course, there are many worse problems to have, lol.

Dude nice collection, i wouldnt wanna get drunk around their, recipe for disaster. I hope you have them stored away and not on the shelf.

I actually don't drink, thank god. And I actually refuse to let my more clumsy friends into my apartment at all. Oh well, better safe than sorry.

I'll take something from your reject table if you dont want it (:

I'll take something from your reject table if you dont want it (:

Haha, I guess I was being a little harsh when I called it that. Only a few of those pieces I don't particularly care for, the rest (which I do enjoy) were put there due to a lack of room on the other tables, lol.

I would do terrible things for that 32 armed ZOB

Did you pick up those multi armed downstems from your lhs?

fucking awesome.

I would do terrible things for that 32 armed ZOB

Did you pick up those multi armed downstems from your lhs?

Which downstems are you referring to? And I'm lucky enough to have around 5 glass shops within an hour of me, so all my pieces came from one of them. Sometimes I wish I didn't live around any so I wouldn't always be so tempted!

Which downstems are you referring to? And I'm lucky enough to have around 5 glass shops within an hour of me, so all my pieces came from one of them. Sometimes I wish I didn't live around any so I wouldn't always be so tempted!

Where I live in Chicago there are literally 7 headshops in a two block radius. It's sad though because all but one carry overpriced, shitty China blown glass with fake Roors and Illys and the only one that has real, good shit is incredibly overpriced. You're lucky haha.

ssssssssiiiccckkkkkkkk



any brandon martin?

Damn man congrats that looks awesome

Haha, I guess I was being a little harsh when I called it that. Only a few of those pieces I don't particularly care for, the rest (which I do enjoy) were put there due to a lack of room on the other tables, lol.

oh. would you care to sell any of them?

I hope you smoke sticky dank! Nice tubes I bet you could make lots of money charging stoners admission to enter your place and maybe milk one up haha

any brandon martin?

Unfortunately I don't have any of his work.... yet

Where I live in Chicago there are literally 7 headshops in a two block radius. It's sad though because all but one carry overpriced, shitty China blown glass with fake Roors and Illys and the only one that has real, good shit is incredibly overpriced. You're lucky haha.

Oh damn, I feel for you man If you ever find yourself in New England, let me know and I'll take you on a tour of some of the great shops around here

oh. would you care to sell any of them?

I'm not particularly attached to any of the Royalties, the Phires or that Kong, so I suppose I'd entertain any reasonable offer.

I hope you smoke sticky dank! Nice tubes I bet you could make lots of money charging stoners admission to enter your place and maybe milk one up haha

Oh don't worry, only the finest herbal goodness has ever passed through my babies... otherwise, it would be like buying a Ferrari and only driving it in a Wal-Mart parking lot, haha. And you know what, that admission idea ain't half bad, but they'd need to put down one hell of a deposit to use the tri-coil

I'm not particularly attached to any of the Royalties, the Phires or that Kong, so I suppose I'd entertain any reasonable offer.

Hmm alright how muhc for the phire 16 arm perc?

Edited by tswank88, 17 January 2011 - 05:31 PM.

I have a huge man-crush on that Fathead collab. Fucking sick man! You have quite the wicked collection.