Quote Originally Posted by the dude abides
It's my ambition to make a bong out of a small/medium size glass root beer bottle. Not a a shitty temporary one, one i can hopefully keep for a while. I pretty much know what im doing for the bowl and the stem but I dont know how to make a neat hole in the glass without cracking or shattering it. A family member I live with has a wide array of tools, but its not something i feel like asking them about, haha. Any suggestions?
a dremel rotory tool and hot glue gun will do many amazing things.
1st get a good thick glass bottle preferably a old coke bottle
2. clean and dry it out
3.aprox. half way down the side take dremel with a diamond edged tile cutting bit and drill a small hole through the side
4. now take the bit and slowly ream the hole out to a prox 3/8 of an inch
5 go to oposite side and do the same .but make the ho;e abot a 1/4 inch for your carb..
6.get some surgical tubing [ aval at home depot /lowes] and a rubber gasket that the tubing fits snugly through.
7 place gasket with tubing threaded through it in the 3/8 inch hole
8.for the bowl you can purchase clear plastic tubeing to reach below the desired water line you will need a gasket for the upper tube as well you can then either make a wood bowl to slide on & off the tube or get a metal bowl to attach or if you want to spend the $ buy a slider from a head shop .
always wear safety glasses and gloves when drilling glass a hole in the hand is no biggy but a shard of hot glass in the eye is not as easily fixed good luck and let us know how it turns out