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Come on bro just swipe the credit card
Does anyone actually buy these things and use them? They seem far more like art pieces then usable pipes.
I imagine they sit mostly as art display pieces on a table somewhere, only to be busted out once in a while for special occasions. Probably gets shelved about the time the honeymoon period wears off and the buyer realizes how much of a bitch it is to clean nasty tar out of complicated glass with intricate inside areas no brush can reach.
Every decent glass shop has a few of them, overly intricate artsy pieces with pop culture reference/decorative symbology or fumed/uv activated glass that cost many thousands of dollars. Just to do what a cheap china glass scientific bong or dab rig with a perc can. They tend to sit for years especially when the economy aint doing hot. I guess every now and again someone with more money than sense falls in love with a piece of art and makes a down payment/has the play money. No accounting for taste.
At least in a glass shop you can visibly inspect it and get the vibes of the object. If im paying 7k for a piece of glass (lol no) I damn well better be able to inspect it for imperfections, chips, cracks, ect.
There's one in my local dispo that looks like an old kerosene lantern. I kinda want it just for the novelty.
That lantern design is pretty rad visually NGL! Sweet water pipe, if you pick it up hope you enjoy the hell out of it. Good luck cleaning though especially if tar gets crusted in or around under that flame.
Im more of a scientific glass person. I have a soft spot for fumed/uv reactive glass and honeycomb bubbles though. Instead my ideal pieces to be easily visibly inspectable for gunk, easily cleaned to be absolutely flavor neutral, and functional with the ability to swap mouthpieces/hoses or do multiple sliders/vapes at once per hit. The Orb/globe is pretty much my ideal form factor, you cant get much easier to clean than a sphere with some glass joints and a perc.
I have the smoked glass version. for dry vaping it is phenomenal without the mouthpiece. almost no drag.
mine is the v2 so it doesn't have that nice base.
I typically handle it like a palantir.
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Honestly I feel like we may have spoken before about it! I remember talking to someone a few months ago here on lemmy about how they loved hitting the orb without the mouthpiece while vaping which inspired me to try it out. For sure got some nice airflow that way thanks for the suggestion helps mix things up :)
I had the smoked 18mm v1 without the base but it dropped and broke pretty quick. Thats the one thing about the orbs no matter who you buy from they all seem to be the same cheap thin china glass that will shatter easy. But dammit its cheap enough and I love the fourm factor, so decided to get the clear 14mm v3 with that proper glass base next. The joints being smaller isn't that noticable airflow wise all my vapes are 14mm so its nice to not fuck around with an extra 18/14mm conversion slider. My only fustration is no ice catcher and crushing up ice to pour in is a bitch, need to figure something out.
lol I hope not. are we the only lemmy orb'ers?
well hello anyway fellow ....orbbro!
That's kinda what I figured.
My friend has a complicated Mario bong that we christened before he cleaned it for display only. It was a few hundred dollars.
this post was submitted on 19 May 2025
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