sorry to rain on your parade but personally i dont like soft glass bongs at all. an ex girlfriend of mine had two of them and i just dont like the way they hit. i perfer some pyrex or something better like that Borosilicate glass. i think the idea of soft glass (its basically recycled glass melted down then blown into something new) but a few things i dont like is one, those defualt martini bowls you get. if i were you buy a new bowl, spice it up. also two, i perfer to see through my piece to an extent and you may be able to if you hold that one up to the light but still if i cant see the stem and water line it bugs me ha. also for some reason everytime i hit those type of bongs it seems on that shape that the smoke never clears. anyways i know all i had to say was negative but haha atleast i was honest. for 80 bucks i would have gotten a nice clear worked out pyrex piece. just me though...