... Your Sheldon Black is just about my favorite in size and stem diameter - a lovely piece indeed
Yeah, also bought on sale otherwise I wouldn't have justified buying it. Also, the piece MADE me money.........how?? Well, here's how it played out. Saw piece on line, drooled over it & decided I will never spend that much $$ on JUST a bong. Forgot about it for a month or so, got a price alert (from a non sponsor,) Whipped out the abused paypal card, click click and Sheldon is mine, wait patiently for postman pete, gets here, I clean, wash Sheldon etc, then melt a dab on the healthstone "stone" and went onto "whreckking my 'ppliance, BMP." (Non Pug1 speak translation: "This afternoon, with tea, I rather enjoyed vaporizing a portion of MMJ concentrate with my good Friend Sheldon, and he then took away everything for a minute, beg my pardon." Cheech-IT!!! Put it away on the shelf for the afternoon and started to clean house. When it got to dusting my dab station, I foolishly grabbed the sheldon by the neck/mouth-piece, ((((which is only a gravity fit!!!!!!!!)) Dropped him SQUARELY onto my hunk of polished marble I use as a heat proof dummy proof won't melt the desk too quickly rig-rest. He BOUNCED off of the marble, high enough that I was able catch the rebound before he hit the marble a second time sitting on my office desk (dab desk *wink* ).
3 feet !!
Right then, as soon as I saw I didn't have bloody fingers clenching the Sheldon, still IN ONE PIECE, I knew I just got my money's worth and then some cause I did what every glass owner does once, drops their brand new piece and breaks within *HOURS* of getting it. Except mine didn't break!! No cracks or fractures even. The soft-glass healthstone bowl even survived.
Greg