The Perfect Smoking Piece

Hey,

I'm new here, some quick background...

I was introduced to smoking via a joint, didn't get high.
Started smoking years later with a hookah, and then water bong. Love them.
In the past few months, I've been using joints, blunts, hookah's, pipe, and I bought a hookah-like piece:

http://img280.imageshack.us/img280/6453/yum24ae.jpg

Not this exact piece, but the closest pic I can find on the internet. Anyway, it looks beautiful, as you can see.. but it's weak. After just one use, the glass by the bowl is a filthy, uncleanable brown. It hits slightly worse than water bongs (still worked though), and it's pretty wasteful.

I'm trying to find the perfect smoking method or piece. So far, this is my humble, novice evalutation.

Joints & Blunts

Pros: 1) Burn really smooth. 2) Depending on how you roll, they actually save weed. 3) Can be stretched or laced with honey, shisha, etc. 4) Great to pass in a group. 5) Black & Mild plastic filters are fucking excellent. 6) Brief sense of esteem and accomplishment from rolling the perfect joint/blunt, that you just can't get from packing a bowl. 7) Gets you high.

Cons: 1) If rolled improperly, all of the "pros" go out the window. Basically, they're just inconsistent. The quality of the joint/blunt depends on who rolled, what papers, etc. 2) Bits of weed can get in your mouth when you pull. 3) You have to keep buying rolling papers or blunts.

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Pipes

Pros: 1) Small, easy to hold. 2) You can salvage unused weed easily. 3) They're often very pretty. 4) Gets you high.

Cons: 1) Wooden pipes taste disgusting after less than a week. 2) Very difficult to clean. 3) Glass pipes are cool, but you have to keep re-lighting the weed, burning all kinds of THC I assume. 4) One bowl is never enough, especially if you're sharing, so you have to keep repacking. 5) Hits/pulls the weakest, easily... especially if not cleaned thoroughly and regularly. See #2.

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Hookahs

Pros: 1) The smoke goes down soooo fucking smoothly. And if you put ice water in the hookah, that's a wrap. Nothing I've ever smoked comes remotely close to the feeling of a hookah pull. 2) Passing a hookah hose in a group is even easier and more fun than joints (and no droppin ashes on people). 3) So damn pretty and cool looking. 4) You can mix your weed with shisha, to stretch it and flavor it. Mint, peach, apple, etc. 5) Gets you high.

Cons: 1) Cleaning it is a bitch. 2) Charcoal is perhaps the least convenient way of lighting weed. First you have to spend minutes lighting, preparing it, and God forbid it goes out. It's great when it lasts as long as the weed, but even then, relighting more and packing another bowl is somewhat inconvenient. 3) Sometimes I taste the foil in the smoke. This may be the type of foil I'm using, or how I pack the bowl, but it's starting to disgust me.

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Water Bongs

Pros: 1) Burns really great. Not as good as blunts or hookah's, but better than pipes, imo. 2) Little to no weed is wasted. What you packed gets smoked. 3) Good for solo use. 4) Get you high.

Cons: 1) The bowl is somewhat small, just like pipes. Lots of repacking involved. 2) Not very convenient for group use.

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I've been searching these forums, and googling some pros and cons. The piece probably has to be glass, because the taste of wood and metal are starting to annoy me (they're not as safe either). And it has to be easy to prepare and clean, so that rules out hookahs (though I love them).

Here are some pieces that I'm considering. Let me know if you have any good/bad experiences with these, or any other pieces to recommend.

- Swan necked Glass Bubbler Bong
- Glass Pipe
- 8 Glass Spiral Pipe
- Boxed Glass Pipe
- Bushmaster Mini Glass 2 Bubble Bong
- Medium Glass Waterpipe

Thanks,
Decent

Welcome to the boards. Great way to get started! I have an addition or two.

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One-Hitters

Pros: 1) Green (fresh) hit every time. 2) Small, so they're easy to conceal and hide. 3) Looks like you're smoking a cigarette at a distance, and some are even disguised as such. 4) Great for hiding smell. If you get in the habit of packing perfect onies and blowing into the spoof, smoke is reduced 100%. 5) They conserve bud.

Cons: 1) The bowl is incredibly small. This can be a curse or a blessing. 2) Impractical for groups. 3) Some people need to pack it many times.

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Personally, I'll smoke anything, but I've grown to love bongs, and now glass one-hitters.

GB's, lungs, steamrollers, vaporizers, waterfalls, chillums, spliffs, and others still need to be evaluated. If everyone made a contribution, we'd have a comprehensive piece guide for every novice. :)

I guess I have a similar ranking just with a different flavor. Mine would go something like this.

Joint - when shared in a group, seems to always fail to satisfy fully. When smoked solo, it's a nice high but it always burns at the end. Damn near impossible for me to roll well with any thin papers. I'll resort to joints when I want to get one into a concert sometimes, or when I don't have my chillum and want to take a stroll somewhere.

Blunt - "the smoker's joint!", when smoked in a group, the effects are felt by all. and in fact doubled if hotboxing. when smoked alone results in a solid stoning. Better tasting than joints, and slower burning. Papers are easier to roll. Everything I said about joints is bullshit because to be honest, I don't think I've smoked a joint since I started rolling blunts. always have a few wraps on hand. But it remains special occasion sort of thing. A blunt occasion that is.

Hookah - delicious and exotic. Always fun. A great social setting, I've never smoked a hookah alone, and I'm not sure I'd want to, but being able to sit down with a group of friends and have a great conversation while listening to music and smoking from the hookah is a life experience everyone should have. for me, a social event. Another special occasion, because even in my group of friends its rare we come together to smoke the hookah more than twice a month.

Pipe/Chillum - I have a great glass chillum. It's one of the workhorses of my collection for sure. When smoked solo, it's a great high and it's easily repacked. When smoked in a circle will make it around at least twice and again, is easily repacked. Sure easier than rolling a joint. Easily concealed and carried. An adventuresome piece if you will, and I find that important.

Bubblers - Like bongs, only smaller and much more portable. Way more of a bitch to clean though. And precious few stand comfortably on their own two feet (two feet?). The quality bubbler is a prize indeed. Capable of satifying a group or a solo smoker. Repackable with all the ease of a pipe. I find Bubblers used in situations where a full sized bong would be awkward, and yet its enough of an event that it warrents serious smoking. Or for ease of use in the home.

Bong - The standard. That to which all others are compared. A good bong is like a friend. Or at least like a pet dog. Seems like by the time someone has a bong, they've started naming their pieces even if they didn't before. This is perfectly natural. Bongs do the job, regardless of the job. And do it well. The only weakness of the bong is that it's rarely portable. When bongs are thought of as highly portagable, they also seem to correspond with being fragile. If couchlock is your thing. You need a bong. Even if couchlock isn't your thing, you should probably still have a bong. When there's a bong in the house, barring some more intriguing option or "special occasion", it's usually the piece of choice while home.

Exotica:

Vaporizors - like bongs, and yet, not at all like bongs. Similar concentration, different "flavors" of thc almost. Potent, and perhaps a healtier option. Requires electrical outlets and so again, is a location-locked piece (anybody have an opinion on the VaporGenie by any chance?).

Gravity Bongs - Solo use. Good for feeling retarded. In a good way. If you enjoy being retarted that is. This has turned into a blue moon event for me. But I wouldn't rule it out.

Misc. (apples, carrots, coke bottles, etc) - It's nice to be able to feel like MacGuyver sometimes. When you and a friend have pot but have both forgotten a piece, and you can just be like "wait, I'll just take this can, and crush it a bit, and then poke some holes thusly and voila! a Steamroller!" But realistically, this is always an act of despiration. I don't keep cans lying around the house because I love the sensation of smoking misc. items.

Experiences of the author may not be shared by all individuals. Personal experiences may vary.

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Originally Posted by Decent

Pipes

Pros: 1) Small, easy to hold. 2) You can salvage unused weed easily. 3) They're often very pretty. 4) Gets you high.

Cons: 1) Wooden pipes taste disgusting after less than a week. 2) Very difficult to clean. 3) Glass pipes are cool, but you have to keep re-lighting the weed, burning all kinds of THC I assume. 4) One bowl is never enough, especially if you're sharing, so you have to keep repacking. 5) Hits/pulls the weakest, easily... especially if not cleaned thoroughly and regularly. See #2.

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Actually, when it's not burning it's not wasting THC. One bowl is always enough of some good shit. They're not that hard to clean =/ The perfect smoking piece can't be a vaporizer i guess coz it's not smoke. I'd say it's either a bong or a blunt.

hey i liked reding the first post very much!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! oh and welcome decent

You forgot bubblers!

Bubblers
Pros: Smaller than a bong. Water makes for a smoother hit. There's always something enjoyable in the mere tactile sensation of hitting a pipe (as opposed to a joint). Don't waste much weed. Often very pretty.

Cons: harder to conceal than a pipe. Don't allow for huge bong rips. For some models, not spilling the water can be difficult.

Overall, my fave piece is a really large glass on glass bong, but that aside, I love my bubbler!!

This is my favourite smoking piece
http://www.bongsandpipes.willybanjo....18_lizard.jpg&
Mines does not have the same finish but you get the idea... This baby will get you higher than a damn kite :dance: :rasta:

this my friend is the best thing to smoke out of

I went to a party at a friends apartment and they went outside on tha balcony to smoke a cig and I heard someone start laughing and someone yelled for me to come outside and hit this hookah. I walked out there and the dude in the apartment above us had his hookah out on his balcony and he was letting us hit it. It was funny all you could see was tha tube hanging down from his balcony. We had to get a chair so we could stand on so we could reach tha tube to hit it. MMMMMM...goodness.