Not saying it does not exist, but we do not know of it. Tempered glass would NOT hold up to heat and cold transitions, so it would not make a good smoking pipe. Tempered glass is designed to break into small glass parts that are harder to cut you.
You can adjust the number of rubies to your liking. We feel filling it so that the cap can fit is perfect. The more rubies (more mass), the more heat retention.
Yes, for instance, Timber is a mix of cobalt and canary. Many blowers will hand mix colors to make their own colors
The SSV is built using the best materials that are also affordable. Glass is best for some things, and metal for others. We feel the SSV is the perfect combination. Hot metals can give off free radicals
The color can be applied by blowing in one color into a tube of another color. That is called a blow-in. Or one can coil pot color around a tube of color, or even strip it down like we make butter.
Smoking is combustion and it is not as healthy as vaping flower using a desktop like the Silver Surfer. But, one would assume that with more additives it is less healthy.
Sometimes it is what you start out with. But the blower can press it and condense the glass to get it thicker or blow it out to make it thinner. Learn more about glass terms here.
This is where we came up with the Life Saber before there were Li Batteries.
No, hemp wraps are processed so much that there is mostly just hemp fibers left.