Glass

 

Other companies use metal because it’s easy. Easy to design and easy to manufacture; but they taste horrible and there’s no way to clean them easily.  We wanted to do it right, and that meant finding a way to get a glass bowl inside of a portable lighter pipe.

Glass turns out to be a hard material to shape precisely.  Heat must be applied to shape glass, but too much heat will deform it. Since the bowl is nearly impossible to make free-hand, we also had to design a series of molds.

In the end, we were able to combine the bowl, screen, stem, and carb into a single piece of glass and still have it fitinto your 7Pipe Pro perfectly. It’s a feat that was and still is unmatched in our industry.

 

We decided on a sidecar design because it allowed us to have a through-stem for the carb.
The carb extends out through the casing, allowing you to control the airflow with your index finger.
Since the bowl is made from glass, we had to plan for the possibility of breakage.
We protected the lighter from glass shards by enclosing it.
The stem extends to the mouthpiece where the snug fit keeps the glass stable. We were now ready to enclose the glass within the unit itself.

Hidden from view, yet instantly accessible.

Our previous model, the 7Pipe Classic, used screws to secure a plate over the glass. The problem was that you needed a mini screwdriver and nimble fingers. For the 7Pipe Pro, we wanted instant access. The goal was to be able to access the glass in one second instead of one minute.

Magnets presented a promising solution, yet also presented problems. Would the cover pop off accidentally? Would the magnets stay in place?

After intenstive testing, we determined that we needed five extra strength magnets to hold the stainless steel plate in place. Magnets come in many shapes and sizes, but we needed donut-shaped magnets that could be secured beneath the screws. Since the market didn’t have what we needed, we custom designed our own.