Custom Glass Ideas/Designs Thread

Cannabis Connoisseur

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I have agree that I prefer 18mm female joints for my glass pieces. I am biased since I have Cloud+ and a EVO and an EQ and a Solo (with 18mm gong). I also prefer an 18mm female joint because I'd rather use a reducer than a adapter. The reducer doesn't protrude out of the piece for more fragile exposure like an adapter. It just seems more universally accepted.
 
NickDlow

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blankrider said:
Thank you @oli! Looking great!

I also would like to let everyone know that you do not have to spent anywhere near as much money as me to know about glass. All I ask is that you have decent experience with a design before you start pushing it really hard. There is a LHS within an hour of me with lots of high end glass and allows water test with distilled water. It is very nice to be able to feel how a piece pulls workout having to spend hundreds and find out you don't like it. If any of you have a shop that allows water test go there and test things. Things that you could never afford. Some will be more enjoyable then others. Post on here what was good and what was not to help.

Personal experience will always be better than seeing pictures and videos assuming something is worth purchase
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Damn your lucky! I wish my LHS would allow water tests. Those overpriced bastards lol

Nice job @oli!
 
Frederick McGuire

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blankrider said:
I have hit a real full size sg pillar on multiple occasions. Smoked flowers and did dabs. Has anyone else asking even hit one? I tried asking once before but I don't think anyone answered

I already said that I don't know how to use photoshop. I did my best making the 242 and seem to have gotten a pretty positive response. @Dramma Lamma if you think you can do better please post your version.

And I get that some things that don't take off can be great. For example I always found Sega to have better stuff then Nintendo. Game gear was a decade ahead of gameboy. I have never used a betamax but I will take your word that it is good stuff because you are probably speaking from experience.

Has a single person asking for the pillar recycler hit one and it was awesome or are you asking because it seems cool? Because that is flawed logic
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I've never hit a pillar...
They're in a price bracket I've never been able to justify...
 
oli

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So here is one on the side

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Cannabis Connoisseur

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All my experience comes from trial and error. I've bought all sorts of glass and all different. I hated some of them initially that seemed like they'd be awesome,but the pull or function sucked,in a bad way. I would never sale them, and i like them for the atrocities they are. They remind me why the others are awesome. I hit the horrible ones just for a different hit sometimes. I can say,that out of all my glass none are horrible to the point of giving mouthfuls of water or just completely malfunctioning.
EDIT: Also that looks awesome @oli
 
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blankrider

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Yeah I have a friend who has spent easily more than ten times as much as me on glass. I was lucky enough to hit his sg bubble bottom full size pillar. Also some mothership and other crazy priced things. I guess I could own one if I cashed in much of my collection but I rather have a vast selection than one crazy expensive piece.

I find that most people who spend that kind of money on glass will never admit when something they spent a ton of money on isn't that good. Maybe only after they sold it. They also won't admit when cheap glass is equal in function to expensive glass. I think there is something inside them that would make them feel foolish if they were to admit they overpaid.

He had a 4.0 perc in a perc which looked really fancy and cost like 900. It kind of sucked but he never wanted to admit it. He spent like a year trying to sell it repeatedly dropping the price. It wouldn't even sell for 500. He took a huge loss on it and would only admit that it was lame like a year later. Looks cool doesn't it.
 
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Attention my friends. I have pointed out that even though we are a small amount of glass sales in a whole that we bring a lot of other sales in the long run. We are helping advance the Chinese glass market years in a matter of weeks. In return I managed to get us all 5% discounts on this already amazing priced glass. When it is all worked out the coupon code should be FCLOVE in honor of us. You're welcome

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Cannabis Connoisseur

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blankrider said:
Attention my friends. I have pointed out that even though we are a small amount of glass sales in a whole that we bring a lot of other sales in the long run. We are helping advance the Chinese glass market years in a matter of weeks. In return I managed to get us all 5% discounts on this already amazing priced class. When it is all worked out the coupon code should be FCLOVE in honor of us. You're welcome

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Can you please tell us when these pieces become available as well as the discount brother!! Thanks
 
vjt324

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blankrider said:
Attention my friends. I have pointed out that even though we are a small amount of glass sales in a whole that we bring a lot of other sales in the long run. We are helping advance the Chinese glass market years in a matter of weeks. In return I managed to get us all 5% discounts on this already amazing priced glass. When it is all worked out the coupon code should be FCLOVE in honor of us. You're welcome

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fucking amazingly sexy!!!. water test? sheeeesh!!!!
 
EverythingsHazy

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Frederick McGuire said:
@EverythingsHazy, I don't really think the slant at the bottom of the bubbler mouthpiece is going to work how you're thinking...
Sure it may stop a few ml of water from pooling there after a hit if it bubbled up into the neck, but by the time bubbles are in the neck, the connection between the can and neck won't really matter - you'll get splash back unless yo stop drawing...

Just saying, if I got a bubbler with a connection like that, I'd think it was janky, and seriously consider asking for at least a partial refund.

If I saw that in the pics and knew it was a design element I'd seriously consider skipping the piece...

It may just be me, but if any piece is gonna have a bubbler style mouthpiece, I'd say it should keep the traditional straight / 90 degree exit from the can...

Thoughts?
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The point is also to prevent you from having to tilt the piece forward after each hit to let that bit of water flow back into the can. 90 degree connections are a flaw for sure imo. When the water settles, the piece is supposed to "Reset" and be ready for another hit.
 
Dramma Lamma

Dramma Lamma

Looks like a job for!
blankrider said:
Has a single person asking for the pillar recycler hit one and it was awesome or are you asking because it seems cool? Because that is flawed logic
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So you are going to say that us thinking something is cool and wanting to try it, thus asking for it to be made at a reasonable value is bad logic? WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK! HAHAHAHAHAH. So I should abandon something I want to try because 1 guy on the internet said he didn't like it?

How much glass is there in the recent acquisitions thread that people know is not amazing functioning yet still got it because it was cool looking to them? FYI some people buy glass cuz it's cool looking and then consider function second.

Also I'm getting this re-occurring notion you have that if its not a "good value" for a $200+ piece, then it must be also be utter trash even if we got it for dirt cheap. Sounds like you have a bit of a price / value mismatch there. A design could be a ripoff for hundreds of dollars, yet still function legit by $50 dhgate standards.

You get to make what you want here. But if your going to instantly skip over any design that doesn't directly appeal to you personally, then can we rename the thread "help blankrider run photoshop."

Can you expand on your logic as to why the new 242 became a can? (its not broken please don't "fix it.")
 
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blankrider

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@Dramma Lamma no need for the drama. Please move on. If you didn't notice your last post before this disgruntled one didn't even get a single like. Perhaps you stand alone. I am not trying to speak for everyone. I have already said that. I'm just not trying to have novelty pieces produced.

If it is so important to you perhaps you should talk to some blowers about it
 
Dramma Lamma

Dramma Lamma

Looks like a job for!
Eh, all I'm saying is there's a few other "suckers" if you will, that would gladly buy a pillar recycler if it was cheap.


So why did that 242 become a can tho? And can't we make the recycler chamber larger, so its nearly the same size as the perc chamber like the original 242?
 
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Dramma Lamma said:
So you are going to say that us thinking something is cool and wanting to try it, thus asking for it to be made at a reasonable value it bad logic? WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK! HAHAHAHAHAH. So I should abandon something I want to try because 1 guy on the internet said he didn't like it?

How much glass is there in the recent acquisitions thread that people know is not amazing functioning yet still got it because it was cool looking to them? FYI some people buy glass cuz it's cool looking and then consider function second.

Also I'm getting this re-occurring notion you have that if its not a "good value" for a $200+ piece, then it must be also be utter trash even if we got it for dirt cheap. Sounds like you have a bit of a price / value mismatch there. A design could be a ripoff for hundreds of dollars, yet still function legit by $50 dhgate standards.

You get to make what you want here. But if your going to instantly skip over any design that doesn't directly appeal to you personally, then can we rename the thread "help blankrider run photoshop."

Can you expand on your logic as to why the new 242 became a can?
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Dude, that was uncalled for.
@blankrider is doing something great that few people bother to do, I have seen him do the same with American glass blowers and a lot of FCers are very happy with their purchase, I just hope you don't ruin something good that is happening to a lot of people in these forums.
And like he said, you are free to talk to any glass blower yourself.
If you don't like what you see, there's no need to offend people by name calling.
 
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i am thinking that maybe the cone shaped can acts as a (reversed) funnel, forcing the bubbles through the tubes, producing more volume of recycling water
 
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VJJJV

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No, I have not tried a pillar with recycler. I still would buy it.

so that 242 with the can... you gona have to fill that a lot prbly to get the water to recycler, at that point the matrix is gona be rather hard to pull. I mean that chamber has to be smaller, most likely. Also the can design doesnt really help with forcing the water into the tubes towards the 2end chamber.

So I figured it be best to just make a 3D model to best show how it works, later I realized had no clue how I would make those curvy tubes and well here I stopped.. And yeah I tightened the top of the can, that way less water is needed and the water is more likely to be forced into the tubes. All in all I think it's a pretty weird design though.. idk how I feel about it yet..

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Oh also.. as most can see this thread is a bit chaotic, it's prbly gona get a little bit better over time. I mean this forum is always unorganized and resembles more of a chat room. So just gotta live with the chaos. If anyone wants to fight it... you'll be wasting your time.
Fact is also that blankrider is kinda the "boss" when it comes to picking ideas. I think he's receptive enough to all kinds of ideas and does a good job for his $0 the hour. If whoever doesn't like the way he does things: you can also try to contact the distributors and manufacturers yourself.
 
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Dramma Lamma

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Looks like a job for!
I actually don't think that's too bad, more water through uper intake tubes means more momentum to vortex with, just gotta not go to big and run into splash-back. Here was my idea for the added base support on the existing 242 design, simply adding in some flat base glass where the black is. I only drew in the side we are looking at, use your imagination for the other side. Depending on aesthetic preference you could start it a few places, that's just what looked nice to me.


If we can do it without impairing the function or vortex on the 242 I would also greatly like for the mouthpiece to come off the recycle chamber slightly differently, allowing you to see the vortex in action.
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I added in a few black lines to highlight dents in the surface which help guide the vortex and eliminate splash-back.

The biggest issue to that change would be that as is the mouthpiece would rest right above one of the 2 upper intake tubes, leading to less vapor recycled from that path and increasing the risk of drinking water. If the incoming angles of the 2 draw tubes were slightly more on the sides it could allow the mouthpiece to come off the back.
 
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BoogerMan

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blankrider said:
Attention my friends. I have pointed out that even though we are a small amount of glass sales in a whole that we bring a lot of other sales in the long run. We are helping advance the Chinese glass market years in a matter of weeks. In return I managed to get us all 5% discounts on this already amazing priced glass. When it is all worked out the coupon code should be FCLOVE in honor of us. You're welcome

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From all of us who haven't said it already, thank you @blankrider! :tup::rockon::bowdown:

I can't believe these high end pieces are actually coming to life and are going to be a reality before we know it. The quality looks pretty damn good on that prototype. Looks like Steven has some fairly talented glass blowers :nod: I hope the whole batch turns out this nice!

I showed this pic to my girlfriend and she was like, ugh another one? And I'm like yeah another one, but here is the catch… I told her this one (and a few others to come) are a knock off of a $1,000 mothership, SG Pillar, etc… She flipped a 180 and was all for it :rofl:
 
EverythingsHazy

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Anyone can contact these Chinese sellers. If you have a design that you want made, you can suggest it here, or take it straight to the manufacturer of your choice. Apparently Steven is willing to try new things. This isn't anyone's personal thread. It's a place to discuss concepts before they get pitched to sellers. Blankrider just has a good communication line open with Steven atm, so it's the quickest route right now.


It would probably be in everyone's best interest to contact a few different sellers until we more who are willing to do custom pieces as well. More options is always better in terms of quality, price, and speed.
 
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