table of contents
- Ignite Your Sesh: The LED Revolution
- Spotlight: Javier Vazquez’s Creations
- Why LED? A Glimpse Beyond the Glow
- The LED Edge: Performance and Style
- Selection Simplified: Finding Your Match
- The Future Illuminated: What’s Next for LED Glass?
- LED and Light Up Bong FAQs - accordion drop downs
- How It Works
- Popular Conversations from Around the Web About: Light Up Bongs
- Frequently Asked Questions
have been becoming more popular as the technology continues to advance. Learn more about the practice here.
Ignite Your Sesh: The LED Revolution
Reimagine your smoke sessions with an infusion of color with an LED bong. These creations are lit in both aesthetic and function making for a great go-to piece for any smoker’s bong collection. Come explore the ever increasingly popular world of light up bongs and find the
piece for you!
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Spotlight: Javier Vazquez’s Creations
For a master in the technology to add LED lights and magnets to hand-blown glass, look no further than Javier Vazquez. Javier has worked with glass his entire life, coming from a family tradition that can be traced back 85 years in Spain. He has been called upon by the likes of Nic Cage and Jay Leno to create custom pieces with only the best detail allowed. Javier is the perfect example of when craftsmanship meets innovation.
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- Mastered the technology to add LED lights and magnets in hand blow glass
- Developed Brix Product Line with imbedded Superheroes, Cartoons and other Characters
- Built line of Puffco Attachments that are world class
- Crafts Heady Art with amazing features
- Family-owned business started by Javier and Sarah Vazquez in 2010 in a little place called Old Town Temecula in California
- Javier comes from a family of glass blowers from Spain dating back 85 years
- He worked at Disneyland for 27 years making glass products such as wedding cake toppers, princesses and carriages and has been blowing glass for over 40 years
- Javier is a supremely talented glass artist who has also developed stunning celebrity pieces including
- A royal castle for Nicholas Cage
- A custom chopper for Jay Leno
Why LED? A Glimpse Beyond the Glow
Beyond Ordinary: The Appeal
Hand-blown glass with LED gives you the option to have a totally unique bong all your own that will capture the attention of every person who tries it out. Especially with many people smoking at night, having LED on your bong becomes a mesmerizing experience. Not only will you have a gentle light to help see things, but the aesthetic of the light alone will have you stopped and staring day and night once the session begins as you inhale colored smoke of whatever you desire.
The LED Edge: Performance and Style
Tech Meets Glass: The Fusion
How does it work? LED bongs can be achieved a few different ways, but they usually have a small LED system either around the base or neck of the piece. Especially with water inside with piece, the LED will be reflected all around to create a breathtaking aesthetic that is further enhanced when the color changes.
Relax, vibe with some music and gentle colors while watching your friends consume colored smoke. See what it means to lose yourself in a vibe.
Selection Simplified: Finding Your Match
The Vasquez Vision: Choosing Your Piece
With custom designs available, there are endless possibilities to infuse LED into your smoke session behind an expert like Javier Vasquez. Crafting the perfect angles with high quality technique and materials, you can’t go wrong with Vasquez LED piece.
Care Tips: Keeping the Light Bright
For the best effect from your LEDs, having crystal clear glass is crucial. With reflection being such a driving factor in the mesmerizing power of LEDs, you’ll have to remove the non-reflective rosin and ash that will impede the show. To do this, just partake in regular cleanings with isopropyl alcohol, warm water, and salt.
The Future Illuminated: What’s Next for LED Glass?
The possibilities for this style of piece are endless. Especially with experts like Javier Vasquez, if you can dream it, he can do it. As the popularity of this style rises, so does the demand for further increasing innovation in this field. The future of LED bongs is sure to be an exciting one!
HOW IT WORKS
There are a few common methods for getting LED integration into functional glass pieces, the most common one you’ll find on the market is the method of the removable LED base. This is done with the following steps.
Design the Glass Piece
The piece is designed with a thick transparent base or chamber that can catch and diffuse the LED’s light. The borosilicate glass used is typically clear or with a touch of faint coloring to provide the cleanest illumination capacity for the piece.
Create a Lighting Recess
In the fabrication process, the base is shaped in a way that allows for a separate LED module to be easily installed and removed. For the sake of safety and functionality, the glass shaping for the the LED module is separate from the water chamber.
Finish and Anneal the Glass
The rest of the process is typical to standard glassblowing techniques, and the piece is annealed in a kiln for structural stability and prevent cracking.
Install the LED Module
Once the glass is cool enough, a battery powered LED puck is placed into the receptacle beneath the base. The module is meant to be easily removable in case batteries need to be replaced.
Test Light Distribution
To make sure everything is working on the up and up, the LED will be checked to see how the light is diffused through the glass. This is the last step to double check that the piece is properly displaying the light as the artist intended.
Popular Conversations from Around the Web About: Light Up Bongs
Grace Glass LED Bong
by u/KM-04 in trees
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by u/gunnargrono in StonerEngineering
