Small bong or large bong?

I'm contemplating which will be more efficient with the weed. which are more efficient and get you more high, with the same amount of weed and assuming the same size of the bowls?

 

Technically a larger bong will get you higher with the same amount of weed, as the larger volume will expand your lungs more and thus thc will be exposed to more surface area. There is a perfect medium though, as too big of a bong will make the smoke go stale often before you even clear it. The practical limit on a daily driver bong should be between 22-24".

 

depends on what your looking to spend. usally when im looking for a bong ill start with 100 min, most good bongs are going to cost you anywhere from 40-100$ for your adverage glass on glass bong.

i have the same mediuam sized one in red, its pretty decent sized. i dont see any need for any bigger because this one gets me pretty fucked up and it was free.

 

To each their own, but I personally hate festival glass bongs. They chug like no tomorrow and are far more prone to nasty stale smoke than a proper glass on glass bong. I have also NEVER seen a festival glass bong that was glass on glass, they all utilize rubber grommets and have thin stems which are way too easy to shatter. They certainly are nice for free though haah.

 

smaller ones are easy to maintain and are portable. get a large one for your house and kickbacks after you get the smaller.

the last smaller bong i got had too narrow of a chamber and it wasnt comfortable on ur lips to use, so look out for that i guess?
like on the pic floes posted, i would not pick the one on the right

 

The amount of burned material that ends up in the water usually depends on the type of slide you are using/the consistency of your weed.

A Luke Wilson disk slide provides an amazing amount of airflow thanks to its disk, and on top of that, the ash doesn't suck through ever.



The perfect size bore on a bong in my opinion is 38mm for the mouthpiece, with a wider bottom that can be 60mm and up. I love investing money in glass though, and that isn't what most people really do. For most people, the festival glass bongs will do fine, or like Skip said, bubblers are awesome.

A need for heady glass is both a burden and a reward.

 

I like smaller bongs. I don't take huge rips or bowls in one hit, so the chamber size doesn't matter all that much to me. They're easier to hide, carry, and clean. One of my bongs is about the size of 1 ½ lighters stood up.... way too small, don't get one like that lol.

 

that just means the slide has too big of a hole. you can get a glass screen to prevent suck through too. i always make sure the slide has a small hole to prevent that, before i buy it. same thing for bowls when i bought them.

i prefer a smaller bong, but nice quality. the stem is big around enough to put your lips in. it's all glass on glass. has a percolator and ice catcher, as well as a diffused and removeable downstem. all for $80 i think it's about 11" tall.

 

I say a bong in the 12-18" range is a good sized bong.. anything beyond that is just for show.. but if you plan on using it a lot.. constantly pulling 24" of smoke each time is gonna suck.. and you're gonna burn through so much weed.. that poster above who said you would burn the same amount of weed in a small or big bong is obviously mistaken

 

Actually, while there's obviously different mechanics to using different sized bongs, and different techniques, which may cause some to prefer a larger or smaller tube, they can both be equally efficient. It depends on individual design and build quality, really.

For a daily driver that's very pleasurable to smoke (VERY easy on the lungs, too) I would personally suggest one of the older RooR "zumini"s. I used to have one, until my sober stupid combined with a drunk asshole broke it, and what was left had to be disposed of instead of repaired for legal reasons due to my exact situation.

One of the 5 arm zuminis with a nice diffuser and a push slide (less finger burning capacity) is a really wonderful smooth smoke, and it's large enough that you can also take amazing show rips with it. I like the large bore size combined with the smaller perc size, which gives a very nice grip as well. It's full featured, with 18.8mm and a splash guard, the works, but not so large that it's not easy to clean with alcohol and table salt.

So: I strongly suggest a roor zumo mini perc. If you look around in the right spots (cl, for a start, but theres other online glass markets) you should be able to get one for under 200, that's what I paid for a mildly used one in good shape with 1 fleabite about 3 years ago.

Also, I've owned another roor.us tube, a 35mm bore (zumini's 45, I think) non perced tube, one foot I think, later US flag label. It was a fine bong in it's own right, but compared to the zumo (especially considering I paid about the same, though I got it new) it SUCKED. Smoking out of it for long periods of time, as with a daily driver, RAPED your lungs, while the zumo babied them, and it only had a fraction of the zumo's volume. That one now belongs to the local PD though.

Both of em looked pretty pimp, clean, side by side.... RIP RooRshacks RooRs

*edit* to joker man and others, no, a big bong doesn't use more weed. It take more to fill it, but no one's making you fill it all the way. The way to get the most of your weed is through a good bong design, a quality downstem and slide, and proper lung technique. There are tiny bongs that tear through weed, and huge bongs that consistantly get more smoke than you'd ever imagine out of little bits of weed. It's all down to the individual bong, and individual smoker.

 

A) It's not going through more weed, it's just going through it quicker as with the added volume you can actually take a full bowl's worth in one hit.

B) A new roor zumini that doesn't have a fleabite can not be found for under 200$ in an actual shop, that's a person-to-person transaction price only.

C) If you are looking for something like a zumini, you might as well opt for a sovereignty mini reinforced 8 arm with stock sovereignty gridded diffuser and 4 hole slide, that blows the zumini out of the water and doesn't cost much more new.

Also roor charges far too much for glass that isn't as thick or unique as the competition, which is why their sales have dramatically reduced in recent years.

I also never suggested anyone to get a 22-24" bong, that's just the practical limit for a daily driver, as anything larger will generally produce stale smoke unless it was blown by a glassblower with an actual scientific glass blowing degree.

Don't hate on big tubes, a 22" syn showercap fucks pwns

http://s308.photobucket.com/albums/kk330/newradicalface/?action=view&current=Video4.mp4

Too bad someone broke it recently

 

I realize roor currently sucks dick. Also, they betrayed roor.de. As I understand it, all current roor.us tubes, as well as those for quite some time, are basically stealing the roor name. Which is why I suggested an older zumini. Also, yeah, I'm talking 3 years ago prices, if you read that....

SG WAS expensive as a motherfucker when I was last in the whole glass scene, like 650+ for a perced tube. I just generally like the large bore, small perc design on the zumini, and there's also a point where more arms are NOT good, it's just more shaking when you're cleaning, and condensing out more THC in the water (doesn't matter what it's soluble in, it doesn't have to dissolve, just condense when the smoke gets too cold. (also, if arms up the ass is your thing, again, just last I knew, a wile ago, for the price of a low end non perced sg, you could get a zumini, and for a 5+ arm sg, you could get a dual circ or dual 50 billion arm toro.....)

IMO, a used zumini is just a sweet price/performance spot, and being used, you can get one from a time when roor.us wern't little poser bitches relying on name recognition.

SYN, however, is GREAT quality stuff at GREAT prices, fatmike ftw. Their stuff is a good choice, too.

Did trikky ever get into the game properly? I got banned from GC after being a contributing member for quite a while and quite a few thousand posts (and epic rep), because a mod didn't like me..... So I was sort of burnt out an didn't bother making a new name or anything to go back.

 

Yeah I read the three year ago prices, but you said you should be able to get one for under 200$, which just simply isn't true and you'd look kind of rude low-balling a legit shop with that sort of offer.

8 arm mini's can be had for 400ish standard, though you can usually get them discounted for less. The 650 prices are for stemline to 8 arms.

If we're talking arms, despite the blasphemy in my post, I'd say go ITZA. His designs are cleaner than JP's now, regardless of what JP says about Joey from ITZA stealing them.

I'm not hatin on zumini's though, I love the things, though I like the sheldon black 5 arm mini's better as the percolated chamber sticks out slightly less and is just super clean.

Trikky is producing some of the best oil gear out there. His domes are by far some of the sickest behind Dosa, though his new rigs are even better. I'm admittedly not a fan of his ti curve rigs though, he puts much more effort into the dome ones it seems.

Good to know there is another glass aficionado here :cheers2:

 

a large and incharge illadelph

 

9mm illadelph straight tubes hold a special place in my heart. My first quality glass purchase, too bad skullkidnate broke the joint and I don't have the funds atm to do anything about it.

 

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Yeah, I rember trikky and his first "retro rainbow" stuff, but alas, I've been broke for a while now. Hopefully soon I can start throwing money at glass again, but right now I've got legal troubles and so don't have money or the ability to give glass a good safe home

If you know of 521, my zumini was his, it was his first or second tube I think, and I bought it when he upgraded.

 

Why are you hating on Illadelph? Sure their quality control isn't as good, but their craftsmanship is certainly comparable. Plus RooR never came out with 9mm tubes, why the fuck not? Not to mention I scored a 9mm illa for the same price as a 5mm fairmaster.

 

hittin' my little bong. don't even know how many millimeters it is
the new slide i bought fits though!

 

Don't get me wrong, if someone gave me one I'd be pretty happy. But I don't think I'd go BUY one, with all the alternatives.

I've never seen a bad one IRL, but I've seen some pictures of seriously shoddy looking illy stuff, it's morel like a total lack of quality control

I don't know what happened to them, but I remember "we the people" seemed to be doing okay stuff, with blowers that left illy, when I started running out of money for glass.

Not that it reflects on the rest of their line, but I don't like the coils with a rubber seal, the idea of rubber on a GonG tube bothers me, as does being able to pick up the top of your tube and have the bottom fall off.

However, one illy I'd pay for, without a doubt, would be one of their original perced coils, without the detachable section. I like those

*edit* porky, if you ever need to know for purchasing reasons, it LOOKS to me like your tube's female joint is 18.8mm, and the diffuser downsizes to a 14.4mm, so you would need 18mm downstems for that tube, or 14mm slides for that downstem.