Making a bong out of a beer bottle.

[420 HELI]

First i got 5 x 7mm diamond tipped, glass cutting drill bits off egay from China for $4.99. I would recommend a closer bit size to the stem you are using to save shaving the hole bigger... now i know

 

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Grab your drill. Mines just a $99 Makita hammer drill from Bunnings.

 

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Next i held the bottle under a running tap, and started drilling away

 

In no time at all i had a little circular groove...

 

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Ok, so far so good...

 

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Oh you sonofa*^%^@#*^%#&$(&$(&$(#@%$@*%)^

 

Cough

 

So i grabs another bottle (plenty where that came from) and with a little more patience and care i got to this...

 

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then this

 

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then this

 

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It still needs a couple of mm shaved i think but i have no stem with me at the moment to size up the hole properly. So i'll finish it off tonight and you can see the working product tomorrow.

 

Not bad for $5 eh, and i've only broken one bottle and used one bit (still good too).

 

[Crunchy]

awesome! cant wait to see the finishes product!

[daveo17]

get ya hands on a drill press makes for a much smoother hole and thicker glass

 

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[Token]

that next one looks sick

 

I want to make one from a baileys or a tia maria bottle.. no idea how well that would work though..

[daveo17]

the spirit bottles get bad tasting quick tho only used that one for a couple of days gave up on it and brought a tar catcher

[420 HELI]

So... i had a new stem lying around with no grommet... but it was a little long so i retired the porcelain penguin...

 

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Shaving the hole larger once it is there is actually quite easy. Having the 7mm bit will also allow me to make a "shotty" hole.

 

Presenting prorotype #1.......

 

The VBong!

 

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The family...

 

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[stoney clover]

Looks great, very iconic Australian bong there!

[420 HELI]

A drill press or a vice or something would definately be handy, i've cracked a few bottles so far .

 

Anyway, i picked up a few bonza stems, grommets and medium bonza cone pieces from joynt venture. I also got some of those clear papers (awsome!) and a bonza glass stem/cone to try for myself

 

Fresh off the production line, complete with shotty, the VBong! V1.2

 

Note: Shotty in first pic.

 

[stoney clover]

that longer stem looks like it would be nie to hit, save burning your nose at the same time

 

nice work mate

[420 HELI]

Well... the Mrs had this soy sauce bottle at home that looked like it was just begging to be made into a widdle bong...

 

The glass turned out to be approx 5-7mm thick This hole took about 45 minutes to bore out... gotta get me some bigger bits

 

 

7mm shotty, about 5-10 minutes... good thing with this bottle is it isnt going to simply crack like the thin glass of the beer bottles.

 

 

Complete with new stem. This stem is a tad long, one of the new ones i have for the beer bottles.

 

 

Took out the stumpy stem from the porcelain smiley face dude when i got home, looks much better and the fit is perfect

 

 

While it is obviously a little small, she still smokes great.