Vintage Smoking Devices and Accessories

[Jhhnn]

If I had a lid of brickweed I could show the young'uns how to work this thing.

Please explain!

Like this-

https://www.icmag.com/ic/showpost.php?p=5936191&postcount=7

Some people use the lid, others use the box. It's the same deal.

 

[Bud Green]

https://www.icmag.com/ic/attachment.php?attachmentid=237349&stc=1&d=1379294224

not sure if I know how to load a picture here...
I got this in 1969... still have it.. wrapped the leather around it
in '72 ....

 

[gobbler3447]

Yep, way back when, I would pack roaches in the chamber of my homemade pipe, smoking them in the same pipe with all the resins sure was some kick ass shit...Now I carve my own wooden pipes, black walnut, apple, peach, and blue berry and wild huckleberry have made some of the best pipes, however a teak pipe I picked up in Jamacia, was and will be my pattern for future pipes.

 

[exploziv]

Yep, way back when, I would pack roaches in the chamber of my homemade pipe, smoking them in the same pipe with all the resins sure was some kick ass shit...Now I carve my own wooden pipes, black walnut, apple, peach, and blue berry and wild huckleberry have made some of the best pipes, however a teak pipe I picked up in Jamacia, was and will be my pattern for future pipes.

Any pics of your pieces? Sounds very interesting.

 

[Bud Green]

I knew a man in the hills of Jamaica in '72 who ALWAYS carried around his wooden chillum pipe, which was carved from lignum vitae.. The local name for the wood was "ironwood".. That old rhastaman ALWAYS had that pipe full.. i would bet he smoked AT LEAST 6 or 7 oz. of ganja every day....and he was really a trip to talk to...

 

[Bud Green]

steam pipe

steam pipe

Does 1981 classify as vintage?
On my 3rd trip to jamaica I spent 3 weeks in the foothills of the Blue Mountains.
I visited a rastaman and his wife for part of this time. They were friends of a friend..Winston turned me onto the steampipe. My buddy had shown me the "steamer" Winston had made for him 2 years earlier..It's an old school version of what you call a "Vape".
Push a nice fresh bud to the bottom of the bowl.. then you put coals made from coconut shells into the tin pan. As you draw thru the stem you pull the heat of the coals thru the bud and thru the water in the pipe.. You get a steam hit and the bud never burns, it just gets all dried out and turns brown and crumbly like an old leaf in the woods.

 

[cologirly]

Does 1981 classify as vintage?
On my 3rd trip to jamaica I spent 3 weeks in the foothills of the Blue Mountains.
I visited a rastaman and his wife for part of this time. They were friends of a friend..Winston turned me onto the steampipe. My buddy had shown me the "steamer" Winston had made for him 2 years earlier..It's an old school version of what you call a "Vape".
Push a nice fresh bud to the bottom of the bowl.. then you put coals made from coconut shells into the tin pan. As you draw thru the stem you pull the heat of the coals thru the bud and thru the water in the pipe.. You get a steam hit and the bud never burns, it just gets all dried out and turns brown and crumbly like an old leaf in the woods.

I had one of those steamers for almost 30 years. Several of us bought them from buddy that knew a rasta named Winston as well. Sadly, mine was stolen by my ex-husband long before this state legalized weed. I have been trying to find another one for years. It was a bit of work getting the coals ready, and took some practice to keep the pan on the cutchie, but I prefer this steampipe over any modern vap. I am surprised I never could find one again.

 

[Capt.Ahab]

Ive got an old rolling machine Ive had since the mid seventies.

To use it you open it up, place your weed in the fold of the canvas wrapper inside with a paper behind it.

Then you push the top closed and a nicely made perfect joint pops out the top.

Now I have to smoke this Ultra Sonja joint...

 

[The OrigF/clred]

Does 1981 classify as vintage?
On my 3rd trip to jamaica I spent 3 weeks in the foothills of the Blue Mountains.
I visited a rastaman and his wife for part of this time. They were friends of a friend..Winston turned me onto the steampipe. My buddy had shown me the "steamer" Winston had made for him 2 years earlier..It's an old school version of what you call a "Vape".
Push a nice fresh bud to the bottom of the bowl.. then you put coals made from coconut shells into the tin pan. As you draw thru the stem you pull the heat of the coals thru the bud and thru the water in the pipe.. You get a steam hit and the bud never burns, it just gets all dried out and turns brown and crumbly like an old leaf in the woods.

folks in the tobacco forums describe somewhat similiar smoke process - ie they hold that when you draw on a cigarette, the coal is heating and releasing the flavors, vapors, nicotene from the tobacco just behind the coal on the downstream side - heating the moisture still in the tobacco creates the steam that carries those elements out and into the airstream. What you get from the coal portion is tar, arsen and other products of the combustion process. I agree with this theory because I suspect that the lack of moisture in dry tobacco or mj, causes it to taste harsher, to an extent, cause you're not getting as much of the flavors, and more of the products of the combustion process. Yeah, the moisture also helps to cool the smoke, but that's another factor contributing to harshness, but the lack of flavor(s) i feel is the stronger element

 

[Hillbillie]

The Power Hitter is awesome .. My fondest memories !

 

[blastfrompast]

I definately used the old cardboard box and card in my day...price of chucking pollen sometimes

 

[Hank Hemp]

I had a blue power hitter with a sticker of Oatwheelie was it. His motto was Onward thru the Fog! I Lost it in the Great Fire of 1977.

 

[dddaver]

Empty toilet paper rolls with a hole torn in it for the aluminum foil with pin holes for a bowl. Palm over end then releasing after lit to carb. That was not too healthy but fun. But who cares about health when your just 17, young, dumb, and full of cum?

 

[Vexing1]

I was looking in my storage the other day and found a Toker ll... made my day!!!

 

[Dream Time]

The oldest piece of glass I have:

A joint tube I picked up in San Francisco somewhere between '79-'81

My remaining old gear from the late 70's and early '80's

 

[Ga farmer]

^ah damn a tokin stone. Haven't seen one of those in years! I had one with a cool ass Merlin on it. Old friend who was a tattoo artist wanted to use it for a tattoo on another friend and "lost" it!

 

[Garhart]

I keep coming back to this one, keeps getting better to !

 

[Dropped Cat]

https://www.icmag.com/ic/attachment.php?attachmentid=237349&stc=1&d=1379294224

not sure if I know how to load a picture here...
I got this in 1969... still have it.. wrapped the leather around it
in '72 ....

That's very nice, how do I get one?

 

[Infinitesimal]

Hey buddy, would you ever be interested in selling the power hitter? Wanna make a deal?

hey bro,
several people have offered to buy it... and IMO, my '77 hitter is pretty close to being priceless. I'd rather break my mobius matrix bubbler than lose this thing

I have never seen another authentic one, just cheap knock off/re-makes, everyone (both young and old) who sees/smokes this thing shits bricks.

 

[Bud Green]

That's very nice, how do I get one?

Thanks..I've had it 45 years now and still use it regularly..
I have NO idea how many pounds have been toked thru that tiny bowl...
I tied the leather "monkey's fist" around it long ago, because the thing would get too hot to hold it when I smoked it with my friends in the early 70's....
They used to sell them at most of the old "head shops" in the cities on the east coast in the late 60's...probably west coast too.. They called it a "chamber pipe"...
I haven't seen anyone with one in many, many years...