I have been rather frustrated lately when I have been inviting people over to smoke. I Have 2 pipes (Mobius stereo matrix and syn triple nested showerhead) that will fuck over my bud when I smoke with mostly anyone but myself. I find the bowl will roll after only the 2nd-4th rip. Why?!?!?!?!?! Because of the double chamber drip down effect. In this video you will see how this tube's second chamber becomes a reservoir of water as the bottom basin's source is pulled up into the second. Depending on the pipe there is an initial amount of drag, not a constant drag throughout that i speak of, but an initial tug if you will. This is where the water is sucked from the bottom reservoir through the percolators into the second basin. What does this mean?!?! 1) If you put the lighter to a packed bowl before you reach the maximum level of water in the upper chamber, during that initial drag all you are doing is drying out your bud and wasting lighter fluid because you start to light the whole bowl wondering why your hit is not yet milking. You begin to pull harder (this whole process can occur in just a few seconds) and once that maximum level of water is reached in the second basin air will finally pull through and if your lighter is right on top of that bud its going to light QUICKLY! (I.e. forget corner hits!) 2) After you finish you hit water is going to drip back down into the bottom chamber once you release your inhale and finish your hit. This means that there is only one way for the air in the bottom reservoir to go -- back through the stem/stemless joint. As the air travels in bubbles when they finally reach the chamber/stem directly beneath your bowl, it will pop. When it pops the air is released directly into your bowl, feeding the ember if it is still ablaze. (I.e. The bowl is going to roll much quickly so wait a few seconds after your rip for all that god damned air to travel back through all your glass before you put the bowl back on!!! Another thing to consider along with this is 1) Diffused bowls will roll quicker when this happens 2) This is all just something to consider when buying a piece 3) Saves money!!! I shot this video so you see how to spot one of these types of multi-chamber tubes. [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GjfJxPO1xiM]How to Save bud When Smoking Your Bong - YouTube[/ame]
or just load snaps... It is of my personal opinion that loading bowls that contain multiple hits is a waste of bud in general and just plain gross. That taste of partly burnt weed gets enhanced by the bong for me for some reason, they don't bother me at all when I'm smoking dry pieces, but in a bong imo its almost intolerable. I would much much rather just load individual hits for everybody, that everybody clears in one hit; even if its a little tedious and time consuming, its worth it if you like to savor the flavors, and be very conservative with your bud at the same time.
I don't not use water pipes, if I am worried a lot about flavor I'll loosely pack my Toro ice pinch slide.
This whole article has me confused. Somehow I instantaneously pull smoke in without drying out the bud. Not sure how someone fucks that up.