How glass bongs are made?

Glass bongs are effective and beautiful smoking pieces, which are made using the core techniques of glass blowing.Glass bongs  often feature bright colors, intricate designs,and elaborate decorations. Similarly, many glass bongs come with additional components such as ice catchers and percolators. Here’s how glass bongs are made.

Step1: Forming the Water Chamber

The first step in making the snuff bottle is usually to form the water chamber, as this also serves as the basis for the entire pipe.
Glass blowers use a blowtorch to heat a glass tube. This expands the glass into a larger cylinder. The artist then blows air into the hot glass using a hollow steel tube or blowpipe, causing it to expand into a large bulbous bubble. While blowing into the glass, the artist must constantly rotate the glass tube to ensure that the enlarged base does not become lopsided or uneven.

While the glass remains hot, the blower forms a chamber until it reaches the desired size and shape. After the chamber is formed, the artist uses a special tool to make a hole in one side. This is where the downstem will eventually be installed.

Step 2: Making the Neck

The glass blower then applies the heat directly to the glass tube above the water chamber. When this part of the tubing expands into a larger cylinder, the blower again keeps the whole thing spinning smoothly and evenly. A lathe is usually used to keep the cylinders perfectly uniform.

The glass blower will continue this process until they reach a cylinder long and wide enough to serve as the neck of the glass bong.

Step 3: Shaping the Mouthpiece

Now that the neck of the bong now successfully formed, the glass blower focuses on shaping the mouthpiece, located at the very top of the neck.

To do this, they reheated the glass to make it malleable. From there, they began to separate the enlarged neck from the original remaining glass tube. When the neck is removed from the tube, the artist rotates the tube to maintain a uniform shape and size, then carefully smooths the top of the neck into a mouthpiece to ensure there are no sharp edges.

Step 4: Downstem and Bowl

Most glass bongs use removable downstems and bowls. These glassware use the same glass-blowing techniques used to make the bong: heat the glass tube until it becomes malleable, and use a combination of spinning, blowing and tools to widen, shape, and otherwise manipulate the hot glass.