New piece, need advice

EDIT can take awhile...careful...you want to smoke before Palin takes office, right?

 

If it's not listed as a bubbler your gonna be taking a lungful of dry smoke with that chamber! do not buy it assuming it is a bubbler....also, DON'T buy a bubbler online, unless you can see the stem...I've gotten bubblers with stems that go HALFWAY down the chamber...think about it...you don't want that shizz...

 

Well...it's not really deceiving. some people like big dry chambered pipes. it's not advertised as a bubbler...60 bucks for a bubbler isn't bad, though...Mine was 200...remember that making a bubbler vs making a dry pipe is much harder...And my best advice for people buying pipes is to forget about the looks. it might be hard, but if you can, completely forego getting something with sick swirls in it...one of the best peices I've smoked out of had one layer of color (the cheap looking spider web things) and was colorless about halfway through. it's great because you can see the smoke, something that I've only recently realized i actually want out of any peice. conversely, i am always annoyed at my super thick colorful bubbler, as even when i hold it up to the light, i can barely see through it. getting the water level right is a repeatedly an experiment, and cleaning it gets weird, too...it's about preference, obviously, so if you need sick colors get em. OH! one last hint...sometimes headshops will have some product (usually a bubbler or otherwise "special" item) that they can't sell. it's been sitting on the shelves forever, and that's for one of the following reasons...
1. it has a sports or other logo on it (i say who cares if an LSU tigers bead is sitting outside of the chamber, if a big bubbler is going to go out the door for 50 bucks, GO TIGERS!!)
2. it's shaped like a skull or demon...(I'm not into the satanic arts...I'm not religious at all, but I thought I'd found God himself when the guy offered me a dual inline percolating bubbler for 80 bucks)
3. it really sucks...(this pipe will look normal, but there is SOMETHING wrong with it...)

There are other reasons, but they are similar to 1 and 2...they are aesthetically unpleasing to the shoppers before you. enough people have not wanted these pieces to make the store owner discount them, and sometimes greatly. they won't put these in like, a discount bin or anything, but look for anomalies in placement. a bunch of little spoons sitting next to a bigger piece, for instance. often times shops will divide the cases by price...happy hunting!

 

hit up a few convience stores, I got a nice sherlock for $20 was a good first piece