Some companies are making silicone or 3D printed ones to sell to the clumsy crowd as indestructible. Others are moving toward aluminum and other metals with new designs to help cool down hits before they reach your lungs. Other companies are making hand pipes that use the sun for combustion or have a built-in heating element, glass pipes meaning no lighter, no problem. People of all shapes, sizes, colors, religions and cultural backgrounds have a relationship with smoking that does not seem to be going anywhere any time soon. Dry glass pipe styles include chillums, glass blunts, one-hitters, sherlocks, spoons, steamrollers, and specialty pipes.
This is typically where you would add any design elements, like a twisted body, colorful rocks, fuming, or anything else like that. Factory pipes on average tend to break easily, don’t work as well and just feel cheap — but not ours! All Fat Buddha are handcrafted from the start to be the best. No single style is the best because everyone has their own preferences and needs for a glass pipe. To decide which option is right for you, it’s important to try out several different pipes.
Sherlock – These increasingly popular pipes are aptly named after the famous detective, Sherlock Holmes. With their long, vertical handle, these are just plain fun to hold and make addition to any collection. Some sherlocks have a flat base which allows them to stand upright, preventing your herbs glass pipes from falling out. The Gravitron creates big, efficient hits through gravity and pressure. Then pack the bowl with dry herb and insert it into the joint at the neck of the bottle. Once the bottle is full of smoke, remove the bowl and place your mouth over the neck, inhaling as you lower the bottle.
That leads us to believe that while it may be the oldest way of smoking, it is still one of today’s most popular ways. Named after Sherlock Holmes, this iconic style pipe has been in style for more than a century. The classic long and curved neck makes these glass pipes an elegant choice.
As time passed and smoking remained a popular activity in many cultures, different styles and pipe-making materials came about. Even as recent as a few decades ago, it was not uncommon to see people smoking tobacco and other dried herbs from hand pipes carved from stone, made of ceramic clay, corn cobs, or even metal. These days, the preferred material to make hand pipes out of is borosilicate glass. Our artists use a meticulous process to carefully craft each piece of our glass pipes to perfection. From the structural aspect to aesthetic considerations and all of the fine details that go into ensuring the finished product is of the highest quality — it’s an intense process!
Most of our selection of glass hand pipes has the traditional spoon shape with a round bowl and straight stem and the bowl on a spoon is slightly larger than a chillum or one-hitter. You can pack enough herb to smoke for a session on your own or to share with friends, but if you want larger hits, the steamroller pipe is the way to go. Our glass pipe shop features a variety of styles and brands, so you can get the perfect pipe no matter the budget. The process of making cannabis glass hand pipes by machine is much the same as the process for making glass weed pipes by hand, except the process is automated. Essentially, automated machines mass-produce glass weed pipes by applying heat to a tube of glass as it’s spun and maneuvered by another set of machines to create the desired shape and size. If the glass pipe was not constructed properly, it may contain internal stresses that are naked to the human eye.