My homemade collection/museum!

Thanks for all the comments so far!

The song was by 'Bliss n Eso', an aussie hip hop group I've recently discovered and gotten right into. That song was called 'Royal flush' and was one off the latest album. If you wanna hear more, I'd definitely recomend 'Zion bash' and 'Woodstock 2008', both hard hitting awesome 'pump up' kinda party tracks.

As for glass blowing, is that really viable? I'm 25 with no career aspects, just a job that pays the bills, so I have wondered if it would be worth paying for training in glass blowing, or doing a course over a couple of years etc. Also i thought, I couldn't invest that much into it just to make bongs could I?! Surely I'd have to make other stuff and try to make money from it... but I'm only interested in bongs, and like i said I've never really had much talent with creating anything... these are just fun, and I'm driven by the end promise: I get to use it to get high!

I also agree with all the tape being a problem. The only benefit really is that if one of the percs gets clogged or the seal breaks etc. It's not that big of a deal to open it up. If it was hot glue or anything like that, it'd be permanent, and if one bit broke I'd have to start again.

 

Firstly, since I'm directly quoting you, thanks! haha.

I better address the elephant, it was Holly who saw that at the shops and put the stem together, so all credit goes to her.

You DO want to hit the enigma, I'm telling you now. I'll film a milk shot later if I get time, but those chambers clear faster than superman at full speed. I used it exclusively for a week or so there once.

Weed laws? I don't know, and it scares me! I know it's INCREDIBLY common, as in since I've started I've found out basically everyone I know either smokes or is exposed to it in some shape or form. I haven't been able to find legal penalties for Australia online anywhere yet, so yeah I'm not sure... just hope I never have to find out! Just from stories of other people getting caught, I think it's fairly relaxed and more dependent on the personality and bias of each individual officer.

The tubes in the multi person bongs are just strips of garden hose. The most common bong in Australia is an Orchy juice bottle, Dare milk bottle or Gatorade bottle with a chunk of that green hose in the side. Classy.

 

Most don't have sliders at all, and use carb holes.

It's a big cultural thing. People I've shown sliding stuff to get really confused. As I said, the usual around here is a hose stuck in a Dare bottle with a carb hole. Even any glass bongs I can find online in Australia are glass with a metal stem and a carb.

The stems I use are $5 at a local smoke shop. There are thick and thin ones, and both have corresponding metal cones that fit straight in.

We picked up a metal cone that has a long wire handle on it, and we use that as a slider. The blue bottle is one of the only bongs I've made not to have a carb. The green machine, it has a carb on the main chamber, but I use the slider cone in the ashcatcher first, and THEN lift the carb hole, to clear both chambers.

It's easy enough to buy a stem, and they usually come with grommets, and just chuck it in a bottle. I've also got the exact perfect drill bit to make perfect holes for the smaller sized grommets and stems.