About our products

Bongin brand - a guarantee for quality glass pipes & bongs

You can find out for yourself. We offer the best quality for affordable prices. As we are the producers as well as the distributors of our pipes, there is no additional cost and our prices remain very reasonable.

Main features of Bongin products

• Used material - Pyrex (Simax) is extremely hard and absolutely health-safe.
• Beautiful color changing effect - silver or gold fumed glass
• Perfect usability, original designs, long durability
• Carb holes or glass on glass easy removable sliders makes our water bongs really the best devices for smoking.
• Only fine double glass sliders - slider surfaces are more heat resistant and remains cool.
• Big variability of water bongs - ice catchers, different sizes, shapes, wall thickness, colors, decorations...
• Every single piece is original, there will be little differences on each and one of them.
• We can modify your product on demand - adding/removing carb hole or makeing glass on glass slider, changing size.
• Only skilled and experienced glass blowers - every piece is made with extra care.
• We using special cooling ovens to ensure slow cooling process. That make glass more durable.

Color changing effect of silver or gold fumed glass.

All our water bongs and some of the pipes and the bubblers are made from silver (or gold) fumed glass. Small amount of the raw material (silver or gold) is dabbed on the glass surface. This process creates special and inimitable color changing effect.

As you can see on the pictures, the color of the glass can change according to the light conditions, e.g. against the dark background the color turns blue and against the light background the color turns yellow.

Also the usage changes the colors and the general look of of a pipe or a bong. The insides of the glass get dirty with usage and that creates different reflecting effects - your piece gets a beautiful unique look.

References on our products.

We are always pleased to present our products to people of all countries and nationalities. We are the sponsors of some 4:20 related sites and in the future, we would like to present our products in magazines, competitions on web sites, radio and wherever it is possible. You can learn about our activities in our "Hot news bulletin board"

Manufacturing process - water bong body

At first the glass blower must prepare his material. This includes cutting the glass tubes into smaller pieces. There can be a different thickness, a diameter and a length for each product. The glass blower also needs to prepare the glass rods with colors and raw materials for glass fuming, and many other things.

Preparing material

 

The glass blower is using various tools for his work and a gas-burner for heating-up the glass. The first step is to put the small amount of silver or gold into the glass. We call this process "fuming" - "silver fuming" if using silver and "gold fuming" if using gold.

After this the colors can be added on to the glass. This could vary and depends on the product. Some products are heavily fumed without additional colors, some are fumed less with lots of colors.

Gold fuming and glass coloring

 

The deposited colors are processed in several different ways and techniques. This creates the original colored patterns.

Creating color patterns

 

Glass blower is using his breath to blow out the bowls and to create the shape. The bigger bongs with double bowls are processed in parts.

Blowing-out the bowl

 

Once the basic shape is blown out, other surface glass decorations can be added. Eg. decoration of the water bong mouthpiece or slider holder. Also the holes for a slider and a carb are heated-up and blown out and ice catcher is made.

Creating the plastic glass decorations on the mouthpiece of a bong

 

After a while, when the bowls are little cooler, the rest of the material is cut off and the edges are softened and adjusted.

Cutting off the rest of the material from both sides of a bong body

 

The cooling process of each glass piece is also important. The heavier the product is the more time is needed for its cooling.

We use special ovens for slower cooling of the freshly made products, which makes the glass more durable. If the glass is cooled down too fast, it can crack in the future even if it is just resting on the shelf.

Cooling oven and blown bong parts

 

Manufacturing process - slider