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Nature Boy
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Antique paraphernalia - GOT ANY????? 1
#26427768 - 01/11/20 09:30 AM (4 years, 1 month ago) |
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So, I stumbled upon a coke mirror and "works" that (based upon my recollection of the friends/lovers I've used it with in the distant past) I estimate has been in my possession since circa 1979 - more than 40 years!!! I haven't done coke since the 1980's, but I DO have a gram of DPT that is ripe for insufflation, so I'm going to clean this kit up and, well...you know. Wonder how many mg's each line will hold of DPT??? Should know soon! 
Oh, BTW that's a legit Buffalo nickle as the closure!
To make the cut (pix please!) you or your predecessor owners should have owned it for ~20 years. Bongs, pipes, coke mirrors, even rolling paper machines, etc count! Let's see 'em!!! Here's mine:

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Edited by Nature Boy (01/11/20 09:41 AM)
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Re: Antique paraphernalia - GOT ANY????? [Re: Nature Boy]
#26427929 - 01/11/20 11:28 AM (4 years, 1 month ago) |
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My original German blown roor first dealers cup 7mm. I have owned it for 10 years and the previous (original owner for 12). My wife broke the key on it, shattered it actually, luckily I live right near some of the best scientific glass blowers In the world and they repaired it for me for $130. Worth every penny to have my baby back! A friend of mine was over for lunch and he took a dab of some wax and then goes “holy shit I haven’t been this lit since I was 16!!” He kept saying that the bong got him way higher than normally out of his bong or my backup piece. When I bought her 2 weeks later the original owner began bugging me incessantly to sell it back to him at a MUCH higher price($1000) than I had paid for it. ($200) heheh I told him where to stick his thousand bucks! Still don’t know quite how I convinced him to part with it in the first place. PRICELESS!
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Nature Boy
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Re: Antique paraphernalia - GOT ANY????? [Re: pepe the frog]
#26427956 - 01/11/20 11:49 AM (4 years, 1 month ago) |
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Wow! Nice to see such appreciation for the classics! Congrats for resisting the temptation to give it up, and for the willingness to drop $130 for the repair. Kudos!!!
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Re: Antique paraphernalia - GOT ANY????? [Re: Nature Boy]
#26428094 - 01/11/20 01:16 PM (4 years, 1 month ago) |
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Yes it sat on the top shelf in my closet for nearly 4 years while I searched for a boro glass blower who would take it in and not fuck it up. I found Adams and chittinden (glass blowers) finally but they didn’t appear to do bongs just lab glassware for Uc Berkeley and biotech companies. I figured he’ll it’s worth asking and so I crafted the most convincing email not calling it a bong but a water pipe, the owner emailed me back to bring it in and they would do it! I dropped it off in January last year. The owner said they would do it free of charge. I’m stoked so I leave then June rolls around and I’m like ok wtf is taking this long it’s a rekey shouldn’t take that long. So I go to pull up and he email from the owner to show my wife (she didn’t believe me that I brought it to be repaired) and as I’m doing this I realize they emailed me in March saying it was finished and to please pick it up and don’t make them regret doIng it. Next day I go in to pick up but they can’t find it. Then finally one of their admins says oh that’s right we thought you weren’t ever coming to pick it up so it got raffled off to one of the blowers and he’s on vacation. TLDR the guy came back from vacation and brought it in I paid them what it was supposed to cost since they stored it for 6 months. And I got her back.narrowly. At long last!
-------------------- The English biologist, Dawkins , invented the word MEME. Do you all know what a MEME is? It's the smallest unit of an idea. It's like what a gene is to biology, a MEME is to ideology. Our task is to create MEMES.....Shadilay frens
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Re: Antique paraphernalia - GOT ANY????? [Re: pepe the frog]
#26429158 - 01/12/20 05:43 AM (4 years, 1 month ago) |
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Wow. Great story...happy ending.
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