Build This Bong: Instructions and Diagrams for 40 Bongs, Pipes, and Hookahs

by Randy Stratton

Overview

Construct your own smoking devices—from simple to elaborate—with easily obtained materials. Includes bonus instructions for making your own vaporizer!
The first book ever to feature detailed directions for bongs, pipes, hookahs, and more, Build This Bong brings both the classics and entirely original showstoppers to the home workshop. Projects of all sorts—from a standard gravity bong to a rubber ducky hookah and a state-of-the art vaporizer—come to life with Popular Mechanics-inspired illustrations and simple instructions. No fancy materials necessary: handyman Randy Stratton shows how to construct everything from common household goods. Build This Bong's forty inventive projects—made from melons, coconuts, snow-globes, teapots, and more—are sure to be a big, mind-blowing hit.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780811872171
Publisher:	Chronicle Books
Publication date:	10/12/2021
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	108
File size:	6 MB

About the Author

Randy Stratton is, among other things, an illustrator, bookbinder, and metalsmith. He has degrees in both art and motorcycle maintenance and lives in San Francisco.

Table of Contents

Introduction     8
Getting Started     10
Bongs and Pipes From Materials Found Around the House     13
Beverage Bottle Bong     14
Steamroller     16
Tam-Pipe     19
Cantaloupe Bong     20
Simple Apple Pipes     23
Elaborate Apple Pipe     24
Aluminum Can Pipe     27
Bongs, Pipes, and Hookahs From Common Hardware Store Items     29
Four Pipes     30
Basic Pipe Bong     35
Plunger Bong     36
Bucket Bong     38
Waterfall Bong     41
Dryer Hose Suction Bong     42
One-Person Beverage Bottle Hookah     45
Four-Person Beverage Bottle Hookah     47
Any-Bottle Hookah Attachment     48
Frozen Hookah     50
Bongs and Hookahs Made From Acrylic Tubing and Plexiglas     53
Basic Acrylic Bong     56
Pistol-Grip Bong     59
Acrylic Hookah     60
Horizontal Hookah     62
Dual-Chamber Bong     65
Hybrid     67
Tandem Bong     70
Umbilical Bong     73
Acrylic Steamroller     76
Getting Creative     79
Honey-Bear Bong     80
Rubber Duck Hookah     82
Snow Globe Bong     85
Coconut Bong     86
Spyglass Bong     89
Teapot Bong     90
Book Stash-Box     92
Book Hookah     95
From the Past to the Present     96
A Bamboo Bong, or Vietnamese Thuoc Lao Pipe     98
Vaporizer     101
Glossary     104
Index     106