Definitions- Bong,Hookah,Pipe,Bowl,Gauze,Screen,Lung,Waterfall, Gravity Bong

Hey all. ive heard lots of tall tales about smoking devices and from i hear...some ppl dont give things the same names as ppl here in the uk give them. Here are the definitions as i know them, anyone who has different explanations please do tell.

Gauze - bought in packs of 5 over here for 50p. they are metal grids that hold ur smoking material for use in bongs and pipe etc

Bong - Water chamber (like a fizzy drinks bottle) with a tube coming from the bottom, out and up at a steep angle. It holds the gauze with all ur dope/gange/pot. You light and suck out from the top of the bottle where u normally drink from. water cools the smoke, lovely.

Pipe - Usually a small wooden,metal or ceramic device for smoking dope. has a space to hold the gauze and subsequently, the gange.

Hookah - I keep reading that this is just like a bong but instead of a mouthpiece and metal straight tube, there are flexible plastic tubes. We call a Hookah....a double bong. instead of normall sucking out of a bong. there is a tube which goes to another bong base.....giving 2 chambers of water


Screen & Bowl - we dont call it a screen....i think its a gauze. A bowl is the same thing i think. we also dont call it a bowl.

Lung -Top of a bottle with plastic bag lining the inside, u light the dope on top and pull out the plastic, therefore filling the bottle with smoke. remove the dope and suck.

Waterfall - Place top half of a bottle in water. put dope on top. light and lift bottle out of water. the water leaving will create a vacuum and suck dope in. similiar to lung.


Anybody wanna add anything then go ahead amigos :D

here in chicago( not all of chicago but my immediate surroundings)

we call gauze "screens"

and we dont put screens in glass pipes.

pipes are also called bowls, or pieces

and I've heard of waterfalls being called buckets but here we call them "Gravity Bongs"

cool huh

does anyone use budbombs?

In Washington we call a waterfall a gravity bong and a double bong a double perk and a hookah is a bong with 2 or more plastic tubes coming out of it. I used to have a really cool mushroom shaped hookah that lit up with 4 tubes on it:D

waterfalls and gravity bongs are 2 different things

waterfall

gravity bong

Ahhh I c the error of my ways thanks 4 the enlightenment gs :D

yeh, I always wind up fucking up with a gravity bong though. I get too stoned and lift the bottle out of the water and the smoke escapes. My friends and I made a massive one out of a poland spring water bottle and a garbage can. That thing could kill an elephant :D

Well, southern Ontario is a little different:

Everything on your list is called a "beaver".

This leads to much confusion, especially among stoners. "Pass the beaver, man...No, the other one..."


heh heh...I'm so high


Alright, its almost the same as your list...but:

Never heard of 'gauze'. Screens are the metal mesh\grid to keep the pot in the bowl, also about $1 for 5.

A bowl is typically circular, round, with an open top and a hole in the bottom...its what you put the pot in. The screen goes in first to hold the pot.

A bong is anything to do with water/liquid filtration and a bowl; a pipe is anything with a bowl but no filtration. Therefore, a bong can be: a waterbong, a hookah, a gravity bong, a waterfall bong, double-chamber waterbong, triplechamber waterbong. Probably more, but I'm too high to care. Note: All of these are different. Similar, sure, but different.

A bong can be used by 1 person at a time; typically without a screen, the burned weed falls into the water. No cleanup!

A hookah is a bong for 2 or more people, typically with hoses just cause its easier. Same principle as a bong, but the bowl is much bigger so more people can smoke at once.

A double (or triple) chamber bong is just that...it has 2 chambers of water filtration before the smoke is inhaled. The smoke goes in this order: bowl, through water, into chamber 1, through tube, under different water, into chamber 2, into your lungs.

What you call a 'lung' sounds like a parachute...pull the plastic bag down to fill the chamber with horribly evil darksmoke...god those things hurt my lungs. But still, so VERY very high afterwards.

And now to finish this impossibly long post, I like cookes.

OK well gauze is something different. A screen is what is used to hold your marijuana while you light.

SCREEN=FOR ALL BONGS---A MUST for most new pipes

A waterfall is in fact something different my friend. A waterfall is more of a bong than the gravity bong you were talking about

there are different varieties of the gravity and the water-bong.

The "waterfall" he mentioned is the commonly known "Gravity Bong"
A nice variation of the gravity bong is the

bag bong:
Instructions to make:cut off the bottom of a 2 liter pop bottle and duck tape an airtight bag with no holes to the bottle. Make sure the bag surrounds it and makes it airtight
then push your hand inside of the bottle surrounded by the bag.

For the top of this you need a 5/8" socket and some filters out of your kitchen sink(they got hundreds) stick 1 filter inside of the socket and then cut a hole on the top of the bottles bottlecap that fits into the socket. Duck tape the socket to the cap making sure its airtight. Then you screw it on the bottle, Put your cannabis powder or small pieces into the top of the socket. You can see here that the screen makes sure your weed doesn't fall through the socket and into the bottle.

Now Just put a flame too it while u pull the bag back out of the bottle. (thats what creates the suction)

Now personally I much prefer the TRUE waterfall. A waterfall is a water-bong, however A water-bong is not necessarily a waterfall...

Now just take the cap/duck-taped socket off the bottle, Get a new bottle and cut a little hole at the bottom that you can cover with your thumb. Fill that up with water while keeping your thumb on the hole. Next screw the cap/socket(this is called a bowl)SO screw the bowl onto the bottle(bong) Put your weed in, and then take your thumb off the hole. Next before too much water escapes put the flame to the weed. The smoke will be sucked right into the bottle and will fill it up. When the last of the water leaves.(you can leave some water in if u want a bubbly noise when you toke) Then you put your thumb back over the hole,

Next You have to unscrew the bowl and before too much smoke escapes(it shouldn't if your thumb is on correctly) Take the biggest toke of your life, or choke and cough and want to die. :rastasmoke: Or if you're a wuss you can just take dainty tokes and cover the top of it with your hand in-between.

A good alternative to the 2 liter bottle is taking 2 or 3 watterbottles and cutting the bottoms/tops and duck-taping it into a big ass bottle that flows smoothly. If you do it right it actually looks pretty sick. Make sure to take labels off so you can see your smoke.


Rasta Ronin

The definition of a traditional hookah is more than the multiple tube.

The way a hookah smokes up tobacco (Shisha) is by having a hot coal over the top of it. Many hookah's have only 1 tube. They also filter through water like a bong but it's really the ignition process that makes a bong a bong and a hookah a hookah. I've seen bongs that look like hookahs but have the wrong type of bowl on them for that long smoke that you get from a hookah.

I wouldn't smoke weed out of my hookah. MAYBE blend some hash into the shisha.

As for screens, Gauze I find is actually a metal screen while a glass screen (AKA Jacks or flowers) are for glass pieces. I use screens with everything because you lose a lot of smokable material into the water of a bong otherwise, plus cleaning out a bong full of ash is far worse than keeping an ashtray and a poker around.

You did miss Ash Catcher, the optional precooling chamber that separates ash from smoke by gravity for use in a bong. It replaces the slider.

And Glass Wand, the piece of glass you get glowing hot and stick into the bowl to keep the butane out.

And the waterfall is great but if it's a large piece it takes a long time to fill up and makes the smoke kinda stale by the time you get to puff.

My favorite gravity bongs are the ones that use really super-long downstems and water filter the smoke with the same water that's reducing pressure. That's brilliant to me.