Author: Steve K

That is a great question and the answers can be found in our blog here.

Yes and no.  The sandblasting can and does cause some stress in the glass.  Usually, this is not a big deal and will cause no issues.  But the blower can anneal the glass after it is blasted to relieve the stress making it fully stress-free again.

Absolutely.  You can make nearly anything out of quartz.  The cost is very high, and the bigger the quartz object the more heat, the more time and the much higher cost.  No color is used, so it is not really a needed or wanted thing.

Quartz is used big time in the production of making solid-state wafers for computing.  A single quartz tank can cost between $15,000 and $40,000.

In a sense yes.  But we usually mix it with frit, so the frit basically traps the opal in between the tube and frit

This is to help protect you from getting burned.  The tip gets really really hot, and one small touch is a nasty burn.  The guard will still get hot though, just not as hot.

This can not really be answered well.  As new minerals are found to work in glass, it opens more doors for colors.  Each new year will bring new colors to the pallet, standard, fluorescent or any shifty color.

They use a very heavy duty vinyl cut with a plotter to lay on the glass.  Then they sandblast it.  This is called graal.

We feel cleaning your glass nightly is the best.  At least dump it, rinse it and let it dry.

It only takes about 24 hours for your bong water to become a danger zone filled with microorganisms

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