Best American Made Bongs
It’s not hard to argue that we are living in a truly golden age of cannabis. Demand for accessories, from pipes to vapes and more, is sharply on the rise and is not likely to slow down anytime soon.
Within this environment, it is becoming increasingly apparent that the modern smoker is less likely to want to put up with subpar products. Unfortunately, a fast-growing market goes hand in hand with an oversaturation of often poor-quality products.
When it comes to bongs, poor quality can prevent you from getting the most out of your smoke. It can become a source of frustration and headaches that no enthusiast should have to deal with.
That is why we have created a comprehensive guide on the best American-made bongs for the discerning smoker in 2024.
Best American-Made Glass Bongs
What are the best-made in USA glass bongs? That’s no easy question, and the answer will likewise entail a longer explanation than it used to not so long ago.
Still, after careful research and thorough testing in the field, we have managed to narrow it down to a select list of the ten best American-made glass bongs.
Sodoz Northstar Beaker
If you’re feeling a retro itch and have the money to spend, the Sodoz Northstar Beaker might be right up your alley. With a design that serves as a throwback to the seventies in more ways than one, the Northstar presents itself as a fashionable, conservatively-proportioned 18-inch beaker with a simple removable perc and a funky red-and-yellow design.
Both fashionistas and smoke enthusiasts will find plenty to love about the Northstar. While it’s not as budget-friendly of a solution as some others, it does its job exceedingly well.
Best USA-Made Mini Bong: Matt 2000 2-Section Inside-Out Tube
While something like the Kenta Kito is surely an excellent choice for anyone seeking to step up their game, it is not the most practical for everyone if for no other reason than sheer heft and size.
A solid block of glass like that, percolator and all, is not going to travel with you risk-free, no matter how expensive or well-made it is.
That’s what the best American-made mini bongs are for! Combining high efficiency and build quality with a much more compact form factor that can be stowed away much more easily, they’re the cannasseur’s choice for taking your smoke with you wherever you need it.
The Matt 2000 is our favorite in this featherweight category. Proving that small size doesn’t have to get in the way of a sophisticated design, the 2000 features a twin-section short tube decorated with an intricate and colorful geometric pattern.
At just 6.25 inches tall, the Matt serves extremely well as a little pocket rocket suitable for just about any social occasion. A 45-degree joint keeps the ergonomics simple and uncompromised while a handy two-hole perc ensures good enough filtration.
All in all, this is a bong with solid performance – far better than most foreign-made no-name brands can offer – at an uncompromisingly handy form factor.
Terroir Crippy Incycler
Crafted with precision and insane attention to detail, the Terrior Crippy Incycler is an example of a bong that takes sophistication seriously – not for its own sake, but for the sake of function first and foremost.
As the name implies, the Terroir is fashioned in the form of a large flower recycler. If you’ve never used one of these before, it’s basically a more elaborate take on the classic straight pipe that keeps the water continuously agitated within the bottom chamber while “recycling” your smoke, allowing for stronger hits.
Favored by many veteran cannabis smokers, the design is even more potent when used with concentrates such as wax or dab.
The percolator on this machine features nine holes and is internally hooked up to the drain which ensures you’ll get top-tier filtration results. A 360-degree rotor provides the recycling action.
At just 14 inches with a five-inch base, the Terroir Crippy Incycler is surprisingly compact given its immense feature set and highly complex construction.
Licit Glass Straight Tube
If you’re a fan of simplicity, there’s no better option than a classic straight tube. While it won’t give you the absolute smoothest draw, a well-made straight pipe can still allow for enjoyable, potent smoke.
Licit Glass provides an excellent example of this blown by hand from peak-quality American-made glass. Given the low price, the 38mm tube with its removable 3-hole perc punches far above its weight and really surprised us with its quality in testing.
Hops Tube 20” Green Base
If you want to go big, then do it right. Hops definitely live by this line of thinking with their 20-inch Green Base, incorporating a very exaggerated beaker-style shape with a funky multicolor design on the American-made glass.
A small, simple percolator makes this bubbler a smooth joy to use, and its incredibly long tube is sure to provide lots and lots of strong, rich hits without fail.
For the money, it’s one of the best bongs in its size class that you can buy in 2024.
Best American-Made Hand Blown Glass Bongs
While any of the bongs we took a look at above will perform their jobs with flying colors – after all, that is why we decided to crown them the best American-made bongs for 2024 – there is a market segment that punches far above, both in terms of quality and in financial terms.
Hand-blown glass bongs are the crème de la crème of smoking gear. Forgive us for the pun, but you can’t get much higher than one of these five-figure, custom-made, pristinely-finished mean machines.
If you have the means and want to take a dip into this exclusive territory, read on below for a roundup of the very best hand-blown glass bongs currently made in the USA.
Jake C
Though he’s not the outgoing type and refuses to participate in the mythos that has developed around his persona, Jake C is nonetheless a legendary maker of some of the most exclusive, coveted bongs on the planet.
His products exude the kind of aesthetic elegance and premium feel that you can only get from the best hand-blown glass bongs. With intricate psychedelic patterns and uniquely large, flared ornamental sculptures, Jake C’s creations are not just impressive to look at.
They’re also incredibly functional: the hand-blown, fully ground glass surfaces allow for the kind of smooth hit that you can only understand if you’ve felt it before. With that comes an absolutely exorbitant price tag, of course – but that’s what you have to give up for such a world-class product.
Captain Hook
From Westchester, NY comes Captain Hook, one of the most respected makers of hand-blown bongs in the States.
As the name implies, the pride of this little one-man operation is a selection of custom-made hooks, all in unique patterns, shapes, and colors that you definitely won’t find on mass-made hardware.
But even more impressive are Hook’s custom bongs and tubes.
Creatively styled, with innovative structures and often deliberately complex geometric features that show off Hook’s glassmaking prowess, they’re not just impressive and unique display pieces but perform as well as the best of them, too.
Want a multi-chamber set up with anywhere from two to four separate drains, styled by hand to look like psychedelic tentacle limbs? Captain Hook’s got your back, and that’s just the beginning.
T.K. Happa x Kevin Murray Sake Bottle
If you want something even more low-profile, prepare to dig really deep into that wallet.
The Sake Bottle by T.K. Happa and Kevin Murray is a pristine example of a hand-blown glass bong that’s as easy to use as it is to carry around, but it comes with a price much steeper than even most other highly exclusive handmade pipes on this list.
For all that money, you do get a “bottle” with an unmistakably impressive design and finish, including band-like mosaic patterns that repeat throughout the neck, joint, and the matching removable perc.
At only eight inches in height and 10mm in diameter, with a two-inch base, suffice it to say that the Sake Bottle is still looking for an equal in its class.
Liam The Glass Guy - Pink Slyme, Lava & Dragons Eye Montage Hunch Tube
If you’re a fan of more elaborate, eye-catching designs, consider this a deserving shout-out for the work of Liam the Glass Guy. His creations combine vivid, trippy colors with inventive construction that often bucks current trends in favor of something different.
This particular water pipe, with its five-hole downstem perc and three-hole slide, employs a hunchback design with a unique 55-degree angle for the joint.
What results is a compact design that maximizes the use of its own internal volume much better than most beakers without taking up too much space.
Groe-Knows - Insano Tube #25 w/ Peli
The Insano Tube #25 by Groe-Knows is a bong of many superlatives. It is among the most expensive of its kind we’ve tested, and yet also one of the smallest. It is the only one on this list, curiously enough, that comes with its own Pelican-made carrying case.
A 7 ½-inch pipe with a two-inch base is tiny compared to most of its competition at this price point, but the Insano Tube stands its ground admirably.
Not only is the build absolutely superb, with surprisingly thick walls given the size and stunning surrealist patterns, but the included twin-hole downstream perc also does its job surprisingly well, with easy-to-generate, smooth hits throughout.
All in all, this is one of those very few portable hand-blown bongs that doesn’t really make any obvious compromises in either form or function.
Best American Made Glass Company
Want to know who’s at the top of the game these days among American-made glass? Look no further; we’ve assembled a complete list of the biggest names in the business. Read on for more information!
Toro
Based in Ithaca, New York, Toro is known as one of the absolute best manufacturers of scientific glass, mainly in the form of intricate, incredibly well-finished dab rigs with class-leading ergonomics.
Like many top-shelf glassmakers in this league, Toro started out and today still mostly functions as a one-man shop led by its chief artist, JP Toro.
His attention to detail and use of unusually complex designs, such as tree-style percs with over a dozen individually hand-crafted arms, have brought him fame and recognition the world over.
Mothership
Hailing from Vancouver, Mothership defines itself as an “artist collective” and is therefore led by a loose team of glassmakers and artists who collaborate to bring out only the finest that the form is capable of.
Founded in 2013, Mothership has since expanded very quickly, becoming one of the major names in high-end glass products. Known for their forward-thinking approach, they have helped pioneer many modern advances in glassblowing and continue to push the envelope to this day.
While Mothership doesn’t have a leader or main artist per se, that title most closely applies to Scott Deppe, whose own personal style and experience inform the Mothership brand to a large extent.
His trademark use of sacred geometry and metaphysical themes borrowed from religion and science fiction has allowed him to carve out a niche for himself. At the same time, his undeniable mastery of technique and artistic approach to creative glassblowing has brought him, and Mothership as a whole, immense respect within the community.
Licit Glass
With a specialization in the use of borosilicate glass, Licit Glass makes excellently-finished, yet minimalistic and compared to others quite affordable hardware that is simple, yet ingenious in execution.
All Licit Glass pipes are made in Virginia, a state known as a haven for glass-blowers, and a place where the company can trace its history back decades.
QCB
Quave Club Bangers, or QCB for short, are specialist borosilicate artists based in Seattle, WA who have made their name in one field: the design and manufacture of quartz dab nails, caps, and bangers.
In fact, QCB was among the very first in the world to make these kinds of dabbing nails out of quartz, a material that offers in many ways superior physical qualities to borosilicate, and other alternatives.
Subliminal
Led by Patrick McDougall, a self-taught artist based in Portland, Subliminal is the source of some of the best American-made glass today. Like Licit Glass, they specialize in working with borosilicate, though Subliminal has since expanded to many other glassmaking disciplines.
Known for incredibly-detailed, large-scale designs often referencing pop culture and displaying a variety of colors, Subliminal glass is hard to mistake for anything else.
Swiss Perc
Swiss Perc as a brand has existed since 2007, but its history goes all the way back to 2002, when founder Nate Dizzle began working as a glassblower independently.
The Swiss Perc represents an innovative step in glass design because it uses a trademark “Swiss” structure composed of countless small holes. Not only gorgeous to look at but also extremely demanding to make, the Swiss Perc was pioneered by Dizzle and he has since then created new spins on the original formula, including in collaborations with other artists such as Voorhees and Ease.
The Swiss Perc has always been made in small batches exclusively and is one of the most recognizable and desirable bongs to own. This alone has put Dizzle’s brand on the map as one of the best American glassmakers in the business.
Highly Educated
Established in the US in 2010, Highly Educated has made it their mission to push the envelope in smoke and vaporization accessories. Their initial success was derived from numerous innovations, such as e-nails, adjustable titanium nails, and domeless nails.
Recently, they have also branched out to quartz-based products. Now they remain a major player in the dabbing scene, with multiple styles of Quartz options as well as other options in their product portfolio.
Within the space of concentrate smoke, there is no one today with the kind of A-class reputation that Highly Educated can boast.
Wrapping Up
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