14mm vs 18mm Joint Size?

A little background first. I smoked my first joint in the 1960's, but I can"t ever recall smoking out of a water pipe, tho I"m sure I have. I recently became interested in water pipes, and picked up a low cost beaker pipe. It has the old fashion rubber gaskets and no diffusion. First time I used it was probably more about learning how to hit a water pipe as I wasn"t successful and it was super harsh on my throat and the high wasn"t anything to write about. Yesterday I took some good hits off this pipe that got me higher on weed than I can Ever remember being. Too high actually. Took me by surprise. On the third and last hit, I picked the bowl up by the bowl, and not the handle. Needless to say, it burned me and the shock and surprise led me to drop the bowl on a tile counter top breaking it into 3 pieces and losing a bunch of weed that ended up in the sink. Bummer. The bowl and stem were one piece, and if I can get a replacement, I will. Ever since I got this pipe, I"ve been looking for something a little fancier, but breaking the bowl has put a little more urgency into buying a new pipe.

I"m looking at a bent neck, stemless female water pipe. Since I can"t post links, one of the pieces I"m interested in is the Thick Ass Glass Bent Neck Matrix Diffuser to give an idea of what I"d like. It is 11.5 inches tall. A little taller than I want, but I"m starting to dig the TAG glass. I"m thinking a 14mm joint would be easier to hit for this old guy vs an 18mm joint. So what are the experienced peoples opinion on 14mm vs 18mm joints? 14mm easier on the lung power?

I lean towards 14mm, but no matter what I go with, it seems like a good idea to stick with the same joint size for future pipes so that bowls/slides and even an oil rig would all be interchangeable.

 

Thanks. I"ve done hours and hours of research in the last couple of weeks, but since I won"t have the opportunity to try each size out, it just seems like drawing from a 14mm stem would be easier, but looking for opinions from those with experience to help me make the decision.

 

Thank you. That"s the kind of info I"m looking for. My one water pipe I own, that I just broke, seems to be 10mm and I didn"t feel air flow was restricted at all. I have noticed, now that I"ve narrowed my search down to the stemless bent neck pipes, most seem to be 18mm.

You bring up another question I have. All pipes seem to be 14mm or 18mm, but when I look at bowls and stems, I see 14.5mm, 18.5mm and now 18.8mm. How does 14mm and 14.5mm relate to each other and the same with 18mm, 18.5mm and 18.8mm.

 

Thank you again. I just looked at 3 different sites and they all say 14mm or 18mm and never mention decimal places.

Another question. If I went with a 14mm Female stemless pipe, wouldn"t the bowl/slide be 14mm also?

Had to ask that as I saw this on one site and it totally confused me.

Joint: 18mm
Slide: 14mm (style will vary)

 

Had to go back and read the forum rules about posting links. I thought it was a no no, but as long as it pertains to the subject of the thread, it"s ok, so here is a link to the pipe I was talking about. It is not on my wish list, but I"d sure like to understand what "Joint: 18mm Slide: 14mm (style will vary)" means.

http://www.brotherswithglass.com/HVY-Glass-8-50-In...

 

This is where it gets confusing to me. If I look at bowls on a site, it is always called bowls/slides. Here is a link to what looks like a bowl to me, but it called a "Replacement Character Slide”

http://www.brotherswithglass.com/Greenlite-Glass-1...

 

If I read that link correctly, it is a 18.8mm downstem that allows one to use a 14.5mm bowl on an 18.8mm pipe?

 

Thank you. Looking around on that site, and I don"t see any replacement slides that look anything like that. Are slides like that hard to find?

 

Well, the sale at the place I’m going to order the pipe ends in two days plus I have a 10% off coupon and I’d like to place the order tomorrow and I still have not made a decision on 14mm or 18mm. It will be a bent neck rig. It seems to me (keep in mind, I have zero experience here) that 14mm would be easier to draw thru. Less lung power, and I’m no spring chicken. So I welcome anymore experienced opinions on what kind of difference there is drawing thru 14mm vs 18mm.

 

It didn’t look like I was going to get anymore replies, so I ordered the pipe this morning. It is a Thick Ass Glass 9.5" Bent Neck Honeycomb with Spinning Splash guard. It is 18mm. Here is a link. I got the green one.

TAG - 9.5" Bent Neck Honeycomb with Spinning Splashguard* | Thick Ass Glass

Their site lists this pipe as a flower rig and an oil rig. I can get a reducer stem and use it like a 14mm pipe if I want to and also use it as an oil rig if I want to. Know nothing about oils yet, but it gives me the option and it also gives me the option of using it as a 14mm rig also.

Nice to see someone on this site my own age. Probably very few of us. I have picked up 3 cheap water pipes in the last 3 weeks and enjoy the extra high I get from them, which is why I want one, and I wanted a quality piece of glass. I also have a GRAV Hammer Bubbler that I’ve only used once and haven’t formed an opinion on yet. I’m looking forward to getting this pipe and using it.

As for vaping. I know little to nothing about vaping. It’s only been in the last week or two that I’ve even been trying to learn something about vaping. It is definitely something for me to look into. I watched a review on what a guy called a Wax Rig” this morning, but since my knowledge on concentrates is nonexistent, I have to ask if oil would also work? Here is a link to that. SOURCE 10cig | SOURCEvapes Even that site calls them Wax rigs and makes no mention of oil. Confused...