Wow that’s great to know that the Quartz Quest uses painted glass @divinetribe do you want to weigh in here. Please don’t use painted glass!
hate painted glass, my supplier said it was not painted then when i got it I Found it to be painted and i went off on them, then told all my customers the news, also did a lead test to make sure what kind of paint it was, thank got it there was no lead.Wow that’s great to know that the Quartz Quest uses painted glass @divinetribe do you want to weigh in here. Please don’t use painted glass!
I look at my glass as art and appreciate it as art still doesn’t mean I’ll spend a grand or more for piece. I love my American slyme fab Dino and the purple kraken I got from CCG. To say that those pieces aren’t art would be idiotic. They are awesome I love them and I am able to afford awesome glass art. To get a kraken from wicked glass or mako glass is $3000+ I payed $165 from CCG for my kraken. The fab dino is the same it’s be $3000+ from Elbo and was less than $100 from CCG. I will never spend $1000-3000+ for a piece but I do love glass art. I had an American artist make me a kraken for $350 and i don’t like it. There’s no perc and all the arms are open inside so they get water in them. I have also bought a couple mini tubes from ig and one had a wonky joint and the other the horn broke off just barley tapping the horn. I have gotten better quality from China lately than I have from American artists.
The most I have ever spent on glass is $500 for a hand blown rig in the 90’s and I still have it. I had a couple of Jerome Bakers that were 350-400 and ended up breaking them. Now I really try to keep my glass purchases below $100 but I will splurge once in awhile.
I won’t go into a local head shop and buy China glass, you are right they do mark it up 5-10x what you can get it from dhgate for.
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And most of them stink.
I just looked at this `art' (ET with his dick hanging out?) and would not use any of it due to how hard they would be to clean, not to mention all the little bling bits that could get broken, reminds me of how people buy Harleys instead of rice burners, all show and not much go.
Daily smokers?
I am a daily vaporist and have zero concerns about using my Chinese glass. In fact I think I will order some more 
Yes they do. But remember, China never designed it as it was completely designed in Cupertino. Was only told how to assemble it. They cannot come up with good ideas. Translate that to glass, China will never innovate and create new styles and percs. They will wait to see how someone else makes it and try to copy it and sell it.Funny, doesn't China make Apple's iphone? U.S. Corporations willingly gave their business and factories to make quick profits by selling cheaper 'made in China' goods to the American people. China was paid to do what they do by GREEDY American and global capitalists. The 1% love everything china has been for them...just ask the Waltons.
I have a nice mobius piece and there are several chinese glass pieces I prefer to use. It is nice to have functional glass that is affordable. Out of all the things I appreciate 'made in china' cheap weed tools make me the happiest.
Funny, doesn't China make Apple's iphone? U.S. Corporations willingly gave their business and factories to make quick profits by selling cheaper 'made in China' goods to the American people. China was paid to do what they do by GREEDY American and global capitalists. The 1% love everything china has been for them...just ask the Waltons.
I have a nice mobius piece and there are several chinese glass pieces I prefer to use. It is nice to have functional glass that is affordable. Out of all the things I appreciate 'made in china' cheap weed tools make me the happiest.
Exactly. I'm Chinese and I lack the critical thinking skills as you say. Im right on point.China is a nation made up of human beings just like all other nations. To say there is something wrong with the Chinese people's ability to innovate, design, and create could only come from a person that lacks critical thinking skills.
Think about it for a minute and once you get past the racial undertones of your comment maybe you will be able to see what I mean.
Those supercars are all but useless in the real world, good for posers on the weekend if the weather is fine and the road is perfect, just sayin most people with common sense would not buy a Ferrari as a daily driver(except maybe that guy with the comb over going through a mid life crisis)
But hey, if you have J Leno`s budget, why not drive ChittyChittyBangBang everyday
