Roor is a German manufacturer of glass pipes and bongs, together with accessories such as glass ashtrays and even clothing. Their pipes have a reputation for high quality that is unmatched anywhere else, though some users complain that their products are overpriced. Roor was founded in the 1980s by German glass blower Martin Birzle, and now has factories all over the world. The name is a pun on the words ‘micROORganism’ and ‘rohr’, the German word for pipe.
Unfortunately, the company’s reputation for quality has led to fakes coming on the market. A few telltale signs of a fake include the ® symbol being in the wrong place (it should be at the bottom right of the logo), more or fewer than three ice pinches, and missing splashguards. Always make sure you buy your Roor pipes from an authorised dealer, to save you the time and trouble of having to examine the pipe in order to try to determine whether it is real or not. Fakes are often made of cheap lightweight glass and break much more easily than the real thing, but are still sold at the same price as a real Roor pipe. Be aware to avoid being ripped off.
When smoking tobacco or herbal blends, many people find that a novelty ashtray provides a talking point. Since the UK smoking ban, sales of novelty ashtrays have increased as pub and restaurant owners try to liven up the outdoor areas set aside for smoking, which has become an increasingly social activity. One of the most popular options is a hanging ashtray in the shape of an old-fashioned fire bucket filled with sand. However, many other designs are available.
Glass Ashtrays
A quick search of eBay reveals that glass ashtrays can come in a number of designs, with some of the more collectable ones selling for upwards of £300. These include vintage Murano blown glass designs from the 1950s and art deco ashtrays from the 1930s. At the lower end of the price range, 99p will buy you an ashtray featuring historic advertising or pictures of old locomotives. Whatever your interests happen to be, the chances are that you will find an ashtray to match your personality.
Spinning Ashtrays
A retro design from the 1970s seems to be coming back into fashion. Usually made from chrome, a spinning ashtray features a receptacle that you can stub a cigarette or roll-up into, and the ashtray will spin the ash into an enclosed compartment. It is useful for smokers who live with non-smokers, as it masks the odour of your smoking herbs, making a more pleasant environment for your non-smoking family members or roommates. They also come in a variety of designs, though even plain chrome ones make for a pleasing design feature.
The Range
Water pipes come in a wide variety of shapes and sizes, and many suppliers of Roor Pipes offer an impressive range of choices depending on personal preferences.
For example, Roor classic equipment is available as two-piece or three-piece water pipes, and there is a mini-version, which is also two-piece, and there is even a pocket-sized one. The Rasta Steam Roller range offers four sizes: large, medium, small and mini. The thinnest pipes have walls two millimetres thick, and the range increases up to a maximum of seven millimetres thick. Unsurprisingly, thicker pipes use more glass and are stronger, and therefore more expensive to make.
Quality Design
These are sturdy pipes blown by hand to provide minimalist contours and sharp, uncluttered lines in a variety of contemporary designs. The fine glass that is used is a mixture of silica and boric oxide, and the pipes are shaped at extremely high temperatures, making them stronger than some others.
The base is shaped like a saucer or flattened bowl, between three and four inches across, which provides stability and is a popular feature of the Roor range as it allows for safe storage and secure use.
Instead of the usual metal gauzes, Roor Pipes have added gauzes made of glass, with the aim of improving and enhancing the cleanliness and the flavour of the experience. Of course, the importance of keeping equipment clean and using it correctly will also make a considerable difference.
Why use Rolling Machines?
Cigarette rolling machines offer a speedy, and tidy, way to roll tobacco or herbs into neat cigarettes. The Rizla rolling machine tin has certain features that make it an ideal way to produce well-formed cigarettes without wasting the tobacco or herbal ingredients. One advantage of rolling cigarettes is it costs less to produce self-rolled cigarettes than to buy cigarettes over the counter from shops or other outlets.
How They Operate
Hand-rolled cigarettes are often messy if too much tobacco or herbs are used to fill, for example, Rizla papers. With a rolling machine a better degree of accuracy is possible, although it is still important not to overdo the quantity of material used. Papers or tubes should be inserted into a rolling machine first and getting them the right way up is important as otherwise aromatic herbs or tobacco will simply burst out at the end of the rolling procedure. When the filling is in place, loose strands of material can be patted into place with the thicker end of a chopstick, or the unsharpened end of a pencil.
Rizla Rolling Machine Tin
The Rizla rolling machine tin offers a quick and very straightforward way to roll herbal blends or tobacco, and each use results in correctly proportioned, firm cigarettes. Herbal material or tobacco can be stored at the base of the tin. Inside the lid there is a mechanism for holding paper so that it can be easily filled, then rolled, and finished cigarettes can also be stored within the lid.
There are times when preventing powerful odours from smoke escaping into a room is important, and a useful way of achieving this is by using spinning ashtrays. These can be purchased in a wide range of different shapes and sizes and help to stop the smell of tobacco or aromatic herbs from seeping out too far.
The ashtrays work on a simple process whereby a button on the top of the machine is pressed down and the ashes are spun round, falling into the bottom of the tray. The ashes, as well as cigarette butts, are then disposed of later. Depending on how deep the spinning ashtray is it may not need to be emptied immediately. The ends of joss sticks can also be tapped on the ashtray’s lid as they burn down, providing an easy and effective way to dispose of the ash produced. If the ashtray is wide enough, then the wooden end of the joss stick can be placed on it and spun away, or easily broken into smaller pieces to be disposed of in a similar fashion.
Cleaning the ashtray is a straightforward process as it is easy to remove the lid, check that there are no lit embers in the ashes that could cause a fire hazard, and tip the contents into a bin. A rinse with a little warm water will help to keep the ashtray clean.
Spinning ashtrays are often portable, which is helpful for smokers on the move, and are sometimes intriguingly shaped, coloured or decorated which make for attractive ornaments as well as useful accessories for all smoking requirements.
Smoking involves setting fire to tobacco or other herbal ingredients. As an alternative, however, there is a contrivance that uses a different method to gain access to the active ingredients in herbal material without having to set fire to it: a vaporizer.
A vaporizer does not have any incidental toxic or carcinogenic effects. Instead, material for legal highs is heated so that extraction of the herbal ingredients takes place and is converted into a vapour to be inhaled.
Without combustion, no second hand smoke is produced: only the user inhales the vapour through a bag or balloon, or through a tube.
Volcano Vaporizer Bags
Volcano vaporizer bags, or balloons, are used in Volcano Vaporizers, in both the Classic and Digital models. They are already attached to the disposable volcano vaporizer easy valve when it is dispatched, and new volcano vaporizer bags can be added, as and when required, to the volcano vaporizer solid valve varieties.
The balloon that holds the vapour is detachable from the vaporizer, so once the bag is full it is possible to move around. The equipment provided for the volcano vaporizer easy valve includes standard sized bags, whereas the volcano vaporizer solid valve implements are more flexible as there is a choice of the size of bag to be used.
Accessories for the Volcano Vaporizer
To accessorise the Volcano Vaporizer, designer volcano vaporizer bags are now available. Made from material that is sturdy and will not leak, the designer bags can enhance the legal highs experience in a number of different ways as they are decorated with silhouettes on various themes.
Since the ban on smoking in public buildings in the United Kingdom, the market for novelty ashtrays has expanded considerably, as pubs convert outdoor nooks and crannies into ‘smokers’ corners’. This means providing seating and tables, a windbreak and/or overhead canopy of some sort and, inevitably, appropriate ashtrays.
Different pub landlords have taken different views on what ‘appropriate’ means. For example, one landlord might favour an old-fashioned fire bucket filled with sand that hangs from a useful hook on a wall. Indeed, individual smokers of tobacco or other legal highs are known to enjoy hanging a novelty ashtray on a handy wall as it can become a talking point with neighbours and visitors.
Laid Back Ashtrays
Alternatives to this sturdy outdoor type include novelty ashtrays that verge on the whimsical or ‘cute’: for example, an ashtray that poses as a beanbag resting on the arm of a chair, or the many ashtrays in a wide variety of shapes and sizes that look like the leaves of plants.
Glass Ashtrays
Beyond the commercial options and ashtrays that are designed purely for fun, there are also glass ashtrays that are almost works of art. Some of these are fabulous pieces of miniscule dimensions in varying shapes and featuring images of urban heroes. Others, like those designed by Roor, makers of Roor Pipes, are associated with exploring the world of herbal blends that provide legal highs.
Two of the ways in which to enjoy legal highs from herbal blends and tobacco are by smoking them and vaporizing. Basic background information about the alternatives may help individuals make an informed personal choice.
Smoking
To release the aroma, the herbal mixture is wrapped in a suitable fireproof medium and set alight. Smoking can involve making cigarettes, for example using a Rizla rolling machine, or using one of a number of water pipes, such as one of the excellent range of Roor Pipes.
When smoking, secondary products include ash and cigarette tips and a way has to be found to deal with these. There are lots of novelty ashtrays available for this purpose, including glass ashtrays and spinning ashtrays. Some of these are also ‘snuffers’, which means they can allow a cigarette to be extinguished in such a way as to be available for re-lighting later.
Vaporizing
Vaporization offers more alternatives: for example, the Iolite Vaporizer is an increasingly popular, portable model that can be taken anywhere, and the Eclipse Vape-20 Vaporizer can deal with herbs, oils and other concentrates. There are no by-products that require disposal.
The Iolite uses butane gas and runs without a mains power cord or batteries. It is carried in a useful pouch and will fit into a pocket.
The Eclipse Vape-20 Vaporizer is altogether more sizeable and can be used with water tools, or without if preferred. It comes with a hardwearing carrying case that has room for all extras and equipment.
Legal highs are drugs that have an effect on the brain and body, but which are not declared illegal by the UK government. These substances often have similar effects to illegal drugs, but they have either not yet been classified as prohibited or are deemed safe enough to be used by the general public.
Drugs that are used for recreational purposes and that are legal in the UK are often unknown to the public or misunderstood. There are different ways of branding legal substances, for example herbal highs, legal recreational drugs and happy pills.
Legal recreational drugs are often dangerous and the effects unknown, as many of them, often derived from plants, can be stronger and less predictable than the highly researched and better known illegal drugs. It is always a good idea to research the legal high you hope to use before taking it; you should also seek medical advice.
The most common and best-known legal highs are alcohol, tobacco and caffeine. A large proportion of the world’s population uses one or all of these substances. There are lots of other legal highs, some of which may be used in everyday life in different cultures, but not all of them are legal in the UK.
Legal high devices can be found on the internet, including Roor Pipes and novelty and spinning ashtrays.
Many websites sell certain substances declaring that they are for research purposes only or not for human consumption, because it is illegal for them to sell them any other way. Make sure that you check this thoroughly before buying supposed legal highs from such websites.
There are plenty of accessories out there to help you achieve your legal high and this extends to rolling your own cigarettes, whether using tobacco or legal herbs. The Rizla rolling machine is one of the top choices of rolling accessory; however, there are plenty of other useful tools out there. All the following accessories are available online and in specialist shops.
Tasty Puffs
Do you want to improve the taste of your tobacco and choose the flavours of your next smoke? Tasty Puffs are a flavour additive spray that you can add to tobacco or legal herbs, rolling papers or bong water. Strawberry, blueberry, juicy fruit and grape are just some of the flavours available.
Metal Pre-Rolled Cigarette Holder
These are sold in various colours and styles and will keep your pre-rolled cigarette safe and sound until you are ready to smoke it. They come in the style of a pen, so you can keep it discretely on your person without anyone having to know.
Rolling Mats
Quality rolling mats are available in various materials, but all feature strong stitching and a flexible design, so that you can use it wherever you happen to be. They are relatively inexpensive and come in a range of sizes.
Rolling Trays
Rolling trays are very useful if you need to roll a cigarette whilst out and about or if you do not have access to a stable surface; for example a table. The product consists of a rolling station and small inserts to keep your tobacco or herbs safe while you prepare to roll.
