From Melting to Movement: The JuiceMan Story

Chris Hubbard Aka, “The JuiceMan”

I made my first functional glass pipe in 1997

🤫 can’t say what I got cooking, but over the years I have several Original concepts that have become regular trends. Like the “un-chazzable” banger, where I temper seal the molecular structure of quartz to prevent Chazz. I’m probably best known for my Faceted gems, although I wasn’t the first, I was among them, and I was the first to put it into a “production” line I call “HubbDuction” -Hubbard’s Heady production line with all the attributes of Heady Techniques in an affordable product. My cornucopia baskets are something nobody else does. And most recently iv been making Baskeyweave Milli with a Hidden UV wigwag pattern. There’s a lot of things I was on the forefront of in this industry but all great ideas come from others and back then it was more “Friendly competition” where we were Riffing and pushing each other’s boundaries in glass.
My Fully Functional Glass grow light won 3rd place at Pipe Classic ( probably the most prestigious glass pipe event in history) literally a 600 W high-pressure sodium grow light with a glass hood that had a Swiss perk gas pump style rig with Hookah hose mouth piece. -you can call the light down on the yo-yos while you are gardening suck up fresh cold water through the gas pump and hookah hose to smoke and do a dab while you are watering your plants. Then after you can spit the water out of the gas pump nozzle even into one of your plants if you wish. And the light goes back up on yo-yo’s. That was a very fun piece to make.

Completed. That is a tough question and would be better answered in the podcast as I have way too much to say on the subject. I see a larger divide coming between production pipes and art. Market instability with macroeconomic conditions and a higher bar to entry for the new kids. I was lucky enough to be a punk weed smoking skateboarding wannabe gangster when I was younger and carved out something that turned into a legitimate business. But on way up i spent my youth in jail for weed and always loved creating art. So I got lucky to part of a revolution.
-“this is the first time in history in art revolution has ever been able to finance itself” -Henry Grimmit founder of Glass Alchemy and FACTS!

I work hard because I love melting, and I never expect a financial return, if I thought this was gonna be my Future job and my end goal I would have never made it. There’s a reason it’s called “starving artists” lol, I think that is my secret