Luther’s lungs are nothing short of magical. It’s insane that they soaked-up the huge hit of pot he took in this video.
My buddy; who goes under the pseudonym Luther Blissett, invented this ingenious upgrade to a traditional gravity bong about 10 years back. The below is his tutorial on how to build a Blissett Bucket.
From being an occasional dope smoker over ten years ago, I went off to university to study philosophy, where I started doing a lot more smoking.
In the past, with old friends, I’d occasionally done buckets where a plastic bottle with some foil over the neck is drawn up in a bucket of water to make a vacuum that sucks in the smoke. My friend’s brother used to smoke ketamine from one in the 80s but (as I’ll always remember), he stopped after one night when he found himself unable to leave a field, convinced that his teeth were stuck to the moon.
I’d been smoking shed-loads of grass in a conventional bucket (studying philosophy and smoking pot just go so well), when one day I set myself to the task of introducing some filtering to the mechanism. After a couple of days of experiments, I came up with a subtle but hugely effective modification to the standard design.
At a glance it looks like nothing new, but remember: gravity bongs (G-bongs) are good for pushing the smoke in your lungs. Normal bongs are good because of the water filtering they offer. This is the only design to provide BOTH:
What is it, and why you should bother making one
As I’ve outlined above, The Blissett Bucket is a piece of smoking equipment that takes the best features of two (more traditional) machines, using the water filtering from a conventional bong, and the delivery method from a gravity bong, combining them into Gods own smoking device.
Please be warned: With traditional (unfiltered) gravity bongs, the natural human coughing reflex will stop lightweights from taking in too much smoke. With the Blissett Bucket however, the smoke will be so cool that even Billy First-Smoke will be able to take it down.
In short, this thing will get anyone really really wasted. Just don’t say you weren’t warned.
The theory:
When you suck in smoke from a bong, your lungs are more bunched up and work less efficiently than when you breath normally. However, if smoke is pushed into your lungs at a pressure of just over one atmosphere, it delivers the most powerful imaginable hit from the smoke.
Go on, do a bong.
Then after you’ve noted the effect and sobered up, try a Blissett Bucket. You’ll notice just how much stronger (many times stronger) the hit is. We’re talking about a FULL-ON caning here.
How to make a Blissett Bucket:
Take a 2 litre bottle and drink the contents (well, unless it’s a bottle of bleach).
Much as I hate to put more money their way, bottles made by Schweppes / Coca Cola tend to have slightly thicker walls than other brands, and so are less likely to collapse in on themselves under the vacuum created when you operate the machine. The one in this illustration had to be changed in the end for just that reason.
Anyway, next acquire some kind of down-tube. Glass, steel, and aluminium are all popular materials.
Make two or three holes in the base of the bottle. When I started out making these machines, I would cut the base right off, but Ive since learnt that having holes will limit the rate at which the water can flow out, thus stopping the device skipping (as could happen with a bottomless bottle and an inexperienced operator). Remember, you can always make the holes bigger later if the machine doesn’t bubble rapidly enough when you test it.
Now, acquire something soft and tacky which you can use to make a removable seal.
If your pipe is quite narrow, you can make a hole in the bottle lid then pop the tube through. Here though, I have just wrapped some Blu-tack around the stem of the down-tube.
You might find that when you insert the tube into the bottle it’s not long enough. Tubes can be extended with the kind of flexible plastic pipe used in an aquarium.
If your tube is glass, take care not to break it while fitting the extension! Pouring boiling water over the plastic tubing will soften it enough to let it stretch around a wider pipe.
NOTE: The tube in the illustration is stretched as much as they can safely go. Its not recommended that you use this kind of tubing for the main part of the pipe, as the smoke is pretty hot at the top, and you don’t want it picking up a plasticity whiff on its way down!
Now, take a clean bucket of water, or small unused rubbish bin (sorry trashcan) and fill it nearly to the top with water.
With regular use, the bottle and the bucket will start to cake with some of the tar that’s been filtered out of the smoke. A weekly water-change and scrub-down keep mine in a reasonable state.
Operation: To make sure you don’t waste any pot, and to clean the equipment (the little metal screens that pop in the bowl usually have a bit of oil or something on from the factory), first do a test run. This means putting the bottle in the water. Putting the down-tube in and sealing it. Now, pick up the bottle and lift it a few inches above gravity. If you hold it there and you’ve made your seal well, the water will just sit there in the bottle above the water level of the bucket. If the seal isn’t so good, you’ll see the water level drop. Now, if everything’s good, keep lifting the bottle (very very slowly) till you start to see some bubbling from the bottom of the down-tube. Keep lifting very slowly but constantly to make the device bubble perfectly. If your tube has a very wide bore, you’ll find that it’s hard to get a nice slow bubbling rate. Anything between 6 and 10 mm should be fine though. If you’ve cut the holes just right, then you will be able to simply pick the bottle up and lift it right out the bucket without the water rushing out too fast.
When you are happy the device is working well, load it up with whatever you plan to smoke, then give it a try. You’ll find as the bottle fills with smoke that the mechanism is naturally one-way, so don’t push the bottle down till the down-tube is removed or the smoke will fire out in a puff! To inhale, you remove the down-tube completely, then put your mouth over the bottle and push it down into the water while allowing the smoke to enter your lungs.
I made this device in 1996, and I’ve since shown it to hundreds of people in person and thousands online (Google video pulled my clip after 7500 downloads because they said they didn’t want to be seen to promote the use of drugs!). Not one person has even claimed to have come up with the idea first, and so till that happens I’ll accept the title of inventor.
If you build your own, please send me a picture! Any problems with construction, please message me via myspace, or by e-mailing:
directyouranger@gmail.com
- Luther Blissett
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