How so? My first one lasted years until a friend dropped it on concrete and the bell broke. 2nd one still going strong. They’ve been tipped over on counters and not broken, nor spilled.
Anything cheap/low quality will be fragile. I don’t know how rough you have to be to break these things but I’m no small gentle person.
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I’ll throw in my two cents and a plug for old school grommeted bongs like JBD, johnathan killman, RX glass, or Jay Osiris Blumenkraft. Or a pre op Chong if you’re a goddamn millionaire. I’ve had lots of experiences with ground glass joints sticking and fucking up the rhythm of a good bong rip. Plus the grommeted bongs you can kind of titrate how heavy of a hit you get by applying pressure with your thumb to the slide to get a tighter seal and a milkier hit. Anyone that skulks around the old school heady glass appreciation thread knows that I love the old style glass in general, but the grommeted bongs are where it’s really at in my opinion, for whatever that’s worth to you! 
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Bees wax for your male ground glass joints : )
@LegsMahoney
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The Bottle Bong - Turn Any Standard Bottle Into A Bong – The Bottle Bong Marketplace!
They also make a dab rig version.
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I really like my TAG recycler dab rig, and I bought one of their bowls for my bong. Quality products.
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TAG, thickassglass. I use these because they are the opposite of delicate, as am I.
The super thick pieces are 9mm or almost 3/8 inch wall thickness. It’s almost funny when you hold one.
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Well I saw a cheap one for 20€ that looks decent, obviously is a glass obkect and all care is a must, but for the price diference I can buy like 8 of these instead of a thick one.
Now I have a question, carb hole, with or without?
You’ve all named some great brands but I think for a first time buyer you have to go basic and easy to clean.
Lil sista by RooR.
Can’t really go wrong and if you can get a German made one. hurts me to say it but they really do know thier stuff and haven’t got so big by being bad…
Other than that a nice small grav labs would be next option… Both come in under 100usd. So not really gonna break the bank if you don’t like it…
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I will shift a little bit and ask bong or vaporizer?
Because I seen the go xs vaporizer and it looks decent.
Both will burn weed in a couple hints, what do you like best?
Dhgate has some cheap ones
I looked the roar but prices on the roof, quality material but too expensive.
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I found one bong I like for 15€, I will go with it as soon as I can.
It is a beaker like 10-12in long with carb hole and simple bowl.
It is on a everyday tabacco shop and is probably chinese, I might want to check my usual growshop see what they have.
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Although I prefer them, IMHO bongs in general are over priced - especially designer/name brand units- Remember- all glass ends the same way. One day it will break. Don’t overspend.
Not telling you to buy the crappiest piece of crap that you can, but be reasonable. Even the “heavy-wall” designer pieces of art will eventually meet a hard floor or object that cuts its life short. It’s inevitable.
You can still find something unique, useful and cool without spending loads and you won’t be nearly as heartbroken when it finally succumbs to fate.
Before I’d buy from an expensive online shop with a designer name, I’d explore the page after page of cheaper options on ebay: Bong for sale | eBay
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The checklist for me choosing bongs are color, shape and how easy it is to clean. With that being said, I’m a big fan of illuminati glass. My current bong and dab rig is illuminati.
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Agree, but not on ebay, I have my growshop website with some middle end bongs and some cheap ones made in china, just like the ones I can get in town in most quiosks.
I will go with a chinese one, until 25 in price so I can check for myselft, try and go from there.
Meaning I need to save those 25 bucks in tobacco, rolling pappers, that is one week of tabacco and pappers.
But I will only use it at home so might take 3 or 4 weeks to payoff.
You all use water?
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That’s right, it’s kind of like breaking a mirror, but with a crucial difference. Break a mirror and it results in seven years bad luck. Break a bong, your entire current weed stash will turn bad! 
Lucky for my stash, I’ve never broken a bong body! 
I did, however, break the handle off a bowl once.
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Bongwater is the absolute worst toxic spill ever!
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Yeah… When my favourite from my teenage years finally broke(thank you cat…grrrr.) I was a little heartbroken. Then a great friend found one online for me but still wasn’t the original.
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I’ll resurrect this thread, as I was just in the market for a bong and got this MAV straight.
The 45cm ($150, head shop)MAV is brand new and so far I like it. way smoother than the AFM.
I have had the ($100, head shop)AFM 20cm beaker for over a year. I break stuff. Often. It’s fallen on the linoleum floor that’s broken many ash catchers and bowls, from 140cm. I’m from the US but I enjoy metric nowadays.
. USD is in metric.
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A mobius clone from dhgate is awesome value for a bong. Might have to wait a month for it though. R/ CHINAGLASS on reddit has review on who to buy it off.
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