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Bongs, pipes and other wonderful contraptions
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All bongs and pipes in this FAQ are ones that I've personally constructed
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and used. I'm sure that there are many many more designs out there, but
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these are the ones that I've found to work for myself.
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ESSENTIAL SUPPLIES
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Anybody planning on building any of the various forms of pipes will need
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a few essentials. I buy mostly everything from the local hardware store.
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You'll need some screens (faucet screens are perfect, if they don't
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contain aluminum), various pipes of different lengths, some sealant, and
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a way to drill holes. Just go into the plumbing section of your hardware
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store and browse. Use your imagination. There are all kinds of different
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pipes with valves, copper pipes, surgical tubing, blah blah blah... you
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can get quite creative. One of the best pipes to buy is a toilet pipe...
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it's usually a 3/8" diameter pipe a couple feet long, and one end widens
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and holds some kind of plastic attachment. Rip off the plastic piece, and
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that end makes a PERFECT bowl. You'll also need bottles. For most purposes,
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plastic bottles (especially 1, 2 & 3 litre bottles) work quite well.
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Mason jars are a standard for bongs. If you want to use glass, you'll
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have to figure out how to drill holes into it (something I haven't done;
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I simply don't have access to a drill press). For sealant, the only
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really reliable one I've found is a good silicone sealant. I use a
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caulking-gun type that's resistant to temperature extremes from -50 to
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300 degrees F. and is also a water sealer. For a temporary seal, mostly
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used when testing designs because the silicone takes a day to dry, hot
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glue works well, as does 5-minute epoxy. On some pipes, lead-free solder
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is also useful, although I tend to avoid using even the lead-free in
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areas where it may be heated. Other supplies can include a various and
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sundry number of spray paints, glitter, model paints, etc., for
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decorating your bongs. I love to use that simulated granite-cast
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spray paint and other textured paints, and I've also made good use of
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sculpting stuff such as Femo and clay (don't make pipes from Femo,
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incidentally; fumes are highly poisonous) to decorate them. Once again,
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be creative.
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JOINTS
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A joint, as you all should know, is chopped-up weed rolled into a
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cigarette. When a joint is almost finished, it's called a roach and
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there are a variety of methods of holding the roach to smoke it without
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burning yourself such as tweezers, tie clips, alligator clips, small
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pieces of cardboard, cigarette holders, and so on. Eating the roach is
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considered bad etiquette in most circles, and I usually keep the roaches
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to put in a pipe. Piped roaches are very potent, as all the smoke from
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the joint was drawn through that little bit at the end, and both the bud
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left and the paper are soaked in nice amounts of concentrated resin.
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I rarely smoke joints these days. No denying they're highly portable and
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convenient, but I do find them extremely inefficient. However, Marley and
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joints just have to go together. =)
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PIPES
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A pipe is a simple device to smoke ganja. It (and any other devices
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working under the same principal) doesn't require you to chop up the
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weed, as with joints, and you get the added bonus of resin accumulation
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in the bowl. A pipe is essentially a mouthpiece, a bowl with a screen
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for the dope, and a pipe connecting the two together. You put the dope
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into the bowl, light it, and suck from the mouthpiece. Standard tobacco
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pipes work fine if you add a screen, and screened corn cob pipes work
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well, as the resin soaks into the cob (which can later be chopped up and
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smoked), just make sure it's screened and fairly heat resistant. Some
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pipes have a heating element (usually a car cigarette lighter element)
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that heats the dope up to sub-flammable temperatures and releases all of
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the cannaboids without destroying any, as direct flame tends to do.
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These are called tilt or vaporizor pipes (or bongs, if an element is built
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into one), and I've yet to rig up a reliable one. If you can make a metal
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pipe, you can drop some dope onto a heated up cigarette lighter and
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draw, or drop some on and collect the smoke in a 2-litre bottle with the
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bottom cut off and inhale from the top (similar to hot knives, below).
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I don't use many pipes these days, except for convenience. The most
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portable type of smoking instrument, you can make them pretty much out
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of anything. Coke cans, copper piping, tobacco pipes... I've even made a
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pipe out of a cigarette package (in a pinch). Coke cans make great
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temporary pipes, just indent it on the side, puncture some small holes
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in it and smoke from the spout. Punch a carb (an airhole that you keep
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covered while hooting and uncover to clear the chamber at the end of
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your toke) in the side if you wish. A rubber hose with a copper bowl
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stuck on the end works quite nicely. Carve them out of wood or
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soapstone. Make them out of clay or ceramics. The only things you need
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are a hole w/screen to put your bud in and a mouthpiece on the other
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end.
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A stash pipe is a pipe with a small amount of ganja held in the stem of
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the instrument. Whenever bud is smoked in the bowl, the ganja in the
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stem is bathed in smoke and coated in resin. The longer you leave it in,
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the stronger it gets.
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ONE-HITS
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One-hits or dugouts are very portable instruments for people who only
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like to smoke a little at a time. It's a small metal tube with a cavity
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at one end and a mouthpiece on the other. You press the cavity into a
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small containter of cleaned, chopped grass to fill it and then it is lit
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like a cigarette and inhaled steadily until the grass is smoked. You
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only get one inhalation per filling, so it's called a one-hit. A dugout
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is a small container which has a space for some cleaned grass and
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another space for the one-hit itself.
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A good design that I use often is a simple 3/8" pipe, about two inches
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long, with a cigar filter stuck on the end, and a small screen pushed down
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at the front about a 1/4". It's very portable, and in a bad situation,
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I've passed it off as a cigarette holder.
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GAS PIPES
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A gas pipe is essentially a regular pipe with a large chamber. The
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standard design is a plastic bottle with the bottom cut off and a small
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bowl mounted perpendicular to the bottle in the side. You cover the
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bottom with your hand, light the bud and suck, which fills the chamber.
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Then you uncover the end of the bottle to rush all the smoke in your
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lungs.
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BONGS
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Water bongs, also known as water pipes (esp. in head shops), are,
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IMHO, the most enjoyable, comfortable and easy way to smoke. The bong
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is essentially a sealed chamber half-full of water. A pipe with a bowl
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on the end goes into the chamber and the water, another pipe with a
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mouthpiece on the end that enters the chamber but stays above the water
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level. You put bud in the bowl, apply a flame to it and suck on the
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mouthpiece. This will lower the air pressure in the chamber, causing
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air to travel from the bowl, through the water, into the chamber and
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into your lungs, pulling the smoke with it. The water cools the smoke,
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as well as filtering quite a few carcinogens from it, and you usually
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get a couple of tokes because the chamber fills with smoke. You can build a
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carb into the bong to drain the chamber, or leave it without (some
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prefer this, as it's a less immediate way than a carb to drain the chamber
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if you just keep sucking on the hose). Here are a couple of designs that
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I've found to work.
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Mason Jar bong
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The standard. I'm no great ASCII artist, but I'll give it my best.
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mouthpiece || \ / <---- bowl
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jar --> | || |
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Classic design, efficient, easy to make and paint. I used surgical
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tubing for the mouthpiece and one of the aforementioned toilet tubes for
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the bowl and pipes (I cut a piece about two inches off and stuck it
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through the lid for the shorter tube, put the tubing over that). The
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carb could be placed in the lid if you wish (mine is carbless).
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Coke bottle bong
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This is a simple design, but the most efficient bong I've found. Take a
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1-litre plastic bottle and put two holes in it, one about halfway down
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the bottle and the other on the opposite side about an inch up from
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the bottom. Take a pipe & bowl (toilet tube is perfect, once again) and
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insert it in the lower hole. Hold the pipe up at about a 60 degree angle
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so that the bottom of the pipe is almost at the bottom of the bottle and
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the bowl is sticking up as much as possible, and seal/glue it in place
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(I use hot glue for this one and change the bottle about every month,
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scraping out the old one for resin, keeping the toilet tube). Fill the
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bottle up with water to about halfway between the two holes. You hold
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the bottle straight up so that the bowl is pointing up and away from
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you. The hole halfway up on the back is your carb, and suck from the
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mouthpiece of the bottle. You can also make it out of smaller bottles
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for more portability, or link two or more bottles together, or use
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bigger bottles for a larger chamber... experiment.
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Triple Chamber Mason jar
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This is a design that has worked quite well for me as well. The design
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is the same as the mason jar bong above, but there are three jars used.
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Three wide-mouth mason jars of different sizes are needed. The second
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largest jar comes first. Mount the bowl and pipe as above, except
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instead of the mouth piece going into your mouth, use a 1/2" diameter
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piece of rubbing tubing and put it into the largest jar, below the water
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level. Then another half-inch piece from above the water level of the
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largest jar into the smallest, below water level, and finally a
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mouthpiece from above the water level of the smallest. When you suck on
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the tube of the smallest, it lowers the air pressure in the jar, and it
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sucks air from the largest chamber. The air pressure in the largest goes
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down, so it sucks from the chamber of the second-largest jar, which then
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sucks the smoke down from the bowl on that one. This is kind of the
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chain:
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Mouth hose (3/8" rubber) - chamber on smallest - 1/2" rubber
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hose below water level on smallest - chamber of largest - below
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water level of largest - chamber of second largest - 3/8" pipe
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below water level of second largest - bowl & ganja.
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That's as clear as I can make the design... it gives a surprising amount
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of suction and absolutely huge tokes. You can work out some kind of
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carburation system for it, but it seems to me that carbs are rather
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pointless with this design. Make sure all seals between lids of jars and
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the hoses are airtight - one small hole will stop it from working.
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If you get the basic principle behind bongs, there's no telling what you
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can do.
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GRAVITY BONGS
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Also known as bucket bongs, beach bongs, and depth charges, this is
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essentially a device that uses gravity and air pressure to draw the
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smoke into a large chamber and then expel it quickly into the lungs.
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This gives much larger hits than most instruments, and it is possible to
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get quite fried quickly with a relatively small amount of weed. The most
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popular method is to take a 2-litre and a 3-litre bottle. Cut the top
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off the 3-litre at the point where it starts to curve into the neck, and
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the bottom off the 2-litre. Attach a bowl to the top of the 2-litre (or,
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preferably, attach one to the lid so it can be taken off). Fill the
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3-litre up with water. Place the 2-litre into the 3-litre and attach the
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filled bowl to the top. Then light the bud as you slowly draw the
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2-litre up. This will create a vacumn in the 2-litre bottle and suck the
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smoke down into the chamber. Once you get near the top, quickly remove
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the bowl, expel all the air out of your lungs, put your lips over the
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top of the bottle and push it back down quickly. This will force all the
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smoke into your lungs quickly.
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You can experiment a little bit with this design, using different sized
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containers and such, but the model above works as well as any other I've
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tried. It's easy to use it in a kitchen sink filled with water as well.
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Another popular method is to just put a small hole in the lid instead
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of a bowl and placing a lit joint in the hole. Draw the bottle up, and
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it's possible to get an entire joint into the bottle to be taken in your
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lungs at once.
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WATERFALLS
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This is essentially a variant on the gravity. You take a bottle (I use a
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2-litre) and drill a small hole (about 3/8") in the bottom, at the lowest
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point.
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Cover this hole with your finger and fill the bottle up. Then, attach a
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filled bowl to the top (I use the same Coke-bottle lid as the gravity) and
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light the
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dope. Uncover the hole out the bottom, and as the water drains out, the
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smoke will be drawn in. Keep the bowl lit and let the water drain out,
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and by the time you're done you have a 2-litre bottle full of
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concentrated smoke. Just suck from the top and uncover the hole at the
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bottom to hoot. This is also an extremely efficient design, as very
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little smoke can escape.
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HOT KNIVES
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Knives are a rather complex method of smoking dope, but also a very
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powerful and efficient method. Although it sounds simple, it can be
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difficult to do them successfully (especially if you're already cooked).
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All you need are a couple of knives (with wood handles, preferably),
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something to heat them with (a propane torch works best), a plastic
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bottle with the bottom cut off, a moderately heat-resistant plate (I use
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a lightswitch plate), and of course, weed. You heat the knives to the
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point where they're glowing red. Then you put the bottle in your mouth,
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take one of the hot knives, touch it to a SMALL bud on the plate so that
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it sticks to the knife, and then use the other one to sandwich the bud
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between the two knives underneath the bottle in your mouth. Plumes of
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smoke will come up into the bottle, which you then draw into your lungs.
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This can hurt your throat like hell, but it works beautifully. It's also
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the most popular way to do hash, and a reasonably good way to smoke hash
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oil.
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GLASSES
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This is a really entertaining way to smoke dope, and also a pretty good
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party trick. =) First, take a nice-sized glass mug or jar, run it under
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the faucet, and put it into the freezer for about twenty minutes. Light
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a joint and put it into a holder (a Bic pen with the innards removed works
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well) until only the burning cherry and about another 1/4" of the joint
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are sticking out. Then take the burning end and CAREFULLY put it into your
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mouth. Take the jar out of the freezer, stick the end of the Bic pen
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(the end you'd be dragging on if using the pen like a cigarette holder)
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near the bottom of the jar, and blow. The cold jar keeps the smoke from
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escaping, and you can fill the jar to the top (it's possible to get the
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entire joint in). Then take the jar, put it to your lips, and inhale it
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into your lungs by tipping it into your mouth just as you would a drink.
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The smoke will be so cold you can barely feel it going down. It's
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complicated to do correctly, and takes some practice, but it's probably
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one of my favourite methods.
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EATING
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You can eat dope if you heat it first to activate the cannaboids, which
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are also fat and alcohol soluble. This is much more efficient than
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smoking it, as none is wasted, and it gives a longer stone. Also, it
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eliminates the carcinogenic effects of smoking it. The most popular
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method is to sautee some ganja in some butter on medium heat for awhile,
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and then using the butter to cook. You can make anything out of it...
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cookies, cakes, spead it on bread, cook vegetables, and, of course,
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brownies. Standard ratio is one eighth of an ounce of ganja to a stick
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of butter.
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DRINKING
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It is also possible to extract the active ingredients from dope by
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soaking them in a strong alcohol. The cannaboids are alcohol soluble, so
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they dissolve into the alcohol. The remaining solids can then be
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strained out and the mixture drunk, with the same effects as eating it.
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The standard method is to take a bottle of 190 proof grain alcohol and
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put it in a pot on an ELECTRIC stove. Heat it to sub-boiling and then
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add ganja (standard ratio: 1/2 gram per ounce of liquor). Let it sit at
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sub-boiling for 20 minutes or so and then drain it out. This produces a
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green-tinted alcohol known as "Green Dragon", which can be drunk
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straight (painful) or put in a drink. A popular drink using Green Dragon
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is 1 oz. Green Dragon and lemon lime soda served over ice with a dollop
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of honey.
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IN CONCLUSION
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As you can see, bong construction can be extremely creative. I'm going
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to include the plans to one last bong: my masterpiece, the Kong Bong. =)
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Kong Bong
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Take a 20 litre plastic water cooler jug. Drill four 3/8" holes around
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to the top, put in four 3/8" hoses a couple feet long and seal them. These
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are your mouthpieces. Then find a bowl. For the bowl on mine, I use one of
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those large spark plug sockets. Drill a hole in the lid of the bottle and
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insert the bowl. Seal it with silicone or something similarily
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heat-resistant. Then, on the bottom of the cap, afix a rubber hose over
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the bottom of the bowl and seal it in place. This is your main bowl
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w/hose. Now drill a 1" hole in the side of the bottle right at the
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bottom, and put in some kind of plug or pipe with a removable
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water-tight cap. Fill the bong half-full of water and put the lid on the
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top. You now have a bong with a 10 litre chamber and a bowl that can
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hold as much as an eighth of an ounce of ganja that four people can suck
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on at once. A propane torch or similar heavy-duty flame is recommended
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for lighting the bowl, as the bowl is too big for a lighter flame. Once
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we're all nicely cooked, I usually re-stuff the bowl and hold a flame to
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it while I uncap the hole near the bottom and plug the toke hoses. This
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drains all the water out, and as it drains, it serves as a waterfall as
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well, fully filling up the 20-litre bottle (with the pipe & hose, the
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waterfall smoke is bubbled through the draining water) with smoke. Any
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hoses that aren't being used to toke should be plugged (as well, cover the
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end with your
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thumb while exhaling or resting) or there won't be any suction. Or
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unplug a couple hoses and they'll serve as a carb to drain the chamber.
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The ultimate party bong.
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