Transparent vs. solid colored pieces

So Ill start off with a lil back story befor I get to the question. I just got a nice new bong, which is solid orange with blue swirls and such, it caught my eye and was cheap since the shop is going out of bussiness,(so sad to hear too) and I really like it, but it causes a problem with me not being able to see the inside. I like being able to see the smoke fill through it, see the water line so I know if I have to much, or not enough. It just has really started to bother me. So, does anyone else have this same problem as I do, or maybe Im crazy. I also dont think I could own a solid colored steam roller, you would just kill your self everytime you hit it.

So the question at hand is solid color, or transparent.

you smoke from a transparent piece long enough it turns a solid culler

sweet the first person to vote solid colors! woot! but i've never used transparent ones and they do sound handy.

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Originally Posted by suhl

you smoke from a transparent piece long enough it turns a solid culler

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Only if you take minimal care of them, and they arent fully transparent.

I love my glass bong, and like you I like to see how much water is in there and its alot easier to see how much smoke is in there :thumbsup:

I don't have a preference, really.
I do like seeing the smoke, and watching as the pipe turns colors after a few sessions, but it's not nessescary for me.
There are some really nice ones that aren't transparent.
It just depends on the individual piece.

Doesn't really matter to me. As long as I get stoned. :jointsmile:

yeah i like when i can see the smoke and tell how much watter is in there

I've smoked out of a solid steamroller and a solid bong.

Both of them annihilate cause you don't know when to stop filling it up with smoke.


Oh.. and the bong is white so it hides the smoke even more.

Option 3.

I like my color changing pipes. I like watching the colors transform the more I smoke out of them, until one day, they become solid colors.

In reference to bongs, which I don't own, I prefer solid colors.

I like mine to have color at the base, transparent neck, and then more color by the mouthpiece.

Translucent for me.

I don't like the clearish pipes, they feel fragile to me even if they're not. My favorite piece thus far is one a picked up recently that's got some nice orange, blue, and green swirling in the glass but is still translucent enough that I can see how much smoke I'm getting.

Completely trasparant glass is my favourite, I like to be able to see my lovely smoke.

I've got a 2 foot translucent darkish red acrylic bong with a glass on glass slide which is a nice bong indeed, but it'd be 100 times better if it was completely clear.

This is one i made outta a glass salad cream bottle - i already had the metal bowl/stem from the red acrylic one [i changed it to glass on glass myself, much better hits]

It's more like a bubbler coz it's pretty small - not for big big hits, but it'll still have you blowing a big ol' cloud out.

LIP I also made myself a small bubbler-sized bong like that out of a straight-sided bud vase.
I like being able to see how much smoke it is holding, and I prefer smaller hits anyway.
For Pete's sake people keep your glass clean! lol! If a previously-clear piece is dirty enough to become nearly opaque, do you REALLY want to be smoking out of it? Mmmm yay for pond-scum bongwater... Blech!

personaly i like Solid colors.....especially for bongs.....i always end up getting a bigger hit then i expect taht way :D

i like colored bowls but i like clear bongs i love watching the smoke

Transparent all the way, i wanna SEE what i'm hittin...

doesn't really matter to me... i know how to get the perfect his outta all my bongs and know what it feels like, so i don't need to see it... and clear pipes/bongs tend to get nasty looking unless you clean them regularly, where as, semi-transparent spoons for example, gain character from the dirtiness...

I dont really care about the color of spoons and bubblers because usually i can feel when i have enough smoke..
But if its a bong i HATE it when i cant see how much smoke I'm getting :D

see i wish semi transparent was up there. i have liek a purple bong but you can see in it . and when u take a hit it gets liek a deep milky purple whioch is nice i prefer semi transparent

word i have a teal transparent and its nice becuase u can see through it EZ and it reacts to my black lights!!! Glowing smoke! ballin' lol and no one mentioned the ice factor!?!?! i love to fill mine with ice all the way to the mouth peice and when it starts to melt u may have to pour some out having the transparent factor helps all the more in seeing the adjusting water level as the ice melts

who likes frosted glass?