As more states start legalizing the medicinal use of cannabis, many people are getting interested in how to use it. If you ever need to use the herb but can’t find rolling papers, pipe, or bong around, you may want to flex your DIY skills.
You can make a workable bong using an empty water bottle. How to make a water bottle bong? As long as you know how a fancy glass bong works, you can copy the style to make a DIY water bottle bong.
What’s a Bong?
Bongs are water pipes used in smoking cannabis. The name comes from baung, a Thai term meaning bamboo tube intended for smoking weed.
They come in different shapes and sizes, but the most basic types have a chamber and a bowl. No matter their sizes, colors, designs, and other features, all these bongs have one function: filter the smoke coming from the burning marijuana and allow it to cool.
In this other article, we explain in details how to clean a bong an d get rid of all the dirt in just few easy steps.
How to Make a Water Bottle Bong
How to make a bong out of a water bottle? Here are the steps to get it done:
1. Prepare the water bottle
Get a bottle with a standard size of 16.9 ounces. Ensure they are water bottles and not soda bottles since the latter may have a certain level of stickiness. You can remove the label or keep it, it’s up to you, but you don’t have any use for the lid, so you can discard it.
It’s not necessary to drain all the water from the bottle. You can leave some to give the bottle some weight if you want the bong to stand upright.
2. Make the “bowl”
You will need a thick or heavy-duty aluminum foil to make 5×5 cm of your bong’s bowl. Get a piece of the foil large enough to cover the bottle’s mouth completely. Fold the edges at the side of the mouth.
Push the foil inside the bottle until you have a depressed area on top of the bottle. It should have enough space where you can place the herb. Make sure that you don’t push the foil too hard because it might tear apart.
Use a sterilized needle to poke six holes in your foil bowl. Make sure that there are equal distances between holes so that the bowl won’t break.
3. Poke a hole in the bottle
Place the needle at the part where the top of the label is supposed to be. This is the area you will put your mouth into. Poke a small hole in it by inserting the needle, and wiggle it gently to make the hole bigger but not too big.
Using a pair of scissors, use one edge to gently make the hole bigger up to an inch in diameter. As you press the edge of the scissors down the hole, it will become bigger. Be careful so you won’t rip apart the plastic bottle.
4. Use the bong
How to make a bong out of a water bottle is as easy as the steps mentioned above. Your bong is now ready to use. Place enough herbs in the aluminum bowl. Do not put too much as they may spill out.
This will test the size of the holes in your bowl. The right size of holes should be able to hold the herbs without them getting inside the water bottle. If they do, you have to replace the aluminum bowl and make smaller holes.
Light the herbs in the bowl. This will lead to smoke filling in the bong. Place your mouth in the hole on the side of the water bottle and carefully inhale the smoke.
How to Make a Water Pipe
Here are the steps on how to make a water bottle bong with a pipe. The process may be slightly different, but it serves the same purpose – inhaling the smoke from the lighted herbs using the water pipe.
1. Prepare the bottle
You can use a 16.9-ounce-sized water bottle for this type of bong. Remove the label and discard the lid.
2. Cut a hole at the bottle’s side
Poke a hole at the side of the bottle using a cutter or the edge of a scissor. The hole must be the same size as the pen shaft you will use as the device’s pipe.
3. Insert the pen shaft into the bottle
Push the pen shaft inside the hole, and ensure that the hole is not too big. It must seal the shaft into the bottle. If not, you can place tapes at the sides of the shaft until it is tightly sealed.
4. Make another small hole to serve as the carb
Create another small hole at the opposite side of the bottle, which you will use as the carb while using the bong.
5. Attach a makeshift bowl to the pen’s shaft
You can use any metal socket as the bowl and attach it to the end of the shaft. Seal it into the shaft using some layers of duct tape.
6. Pour water into the bottle
Fill the bottle with water until it’s about 1/5 full.
7. Use the DIY water pipe
Put enough herbs in your makeshift bowl. Place your mouth at the top of the bottle and tip it away from you.
Light the herbs and put your finger on the carb hole. Gently suck into the smoke through the water. Once the bottle is filled with smoke, you can remove your finger from the carb hole and resume sucking in the smoke using your mouth placed on top of the bottle.
Conclusion
It’s easy to make a DIY water bong, and you can do it in a variety of styles, including the samples above. Always make sure that you have all the tools and materials before starting. Clean all things you will use in the process, and be careful in following the steps on how to make a water bottle bong. Lastly, enjoy the process, and make sure that you don’t overdo it.
