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The nectar collector, also called a vertical dabber, honey straw, or dab straw, is one of the sexiest ways of consuming herbal concentrates.  It’s simple, it’s efficient, and it’s cost-effective.

A nectar collector consists of 3 main parts: Tip, Body, and Neck.  These may be fused into a single piece, or modular for portability, interchangeability, and ease of cleaning.

What is a bubbler you ask?  Congratulations, you have officially graduated from Smoker’s Elementary School!  The glass bubbler pipe is the hand pipe of the pros, the apparatus of the A-listers, the choice of connoisseurs...Ok, ok, I’ll stop But seriously, bubblers are the bomb.   What is a glass bubbler pipe? One cold winter night, a water pipe and a hand pipe were cuddling, watching Disney+.  Nine months later, the glass bubbler was born! The glass bubbler is a pipe small enough to hold easily with one hand, but with a chamber for water that provides the cooling and filtering effects...

So as you may know already, there are precisely 1,934,662 different types of rolling papers.  Okay, I just made that number up, but that’s what it feels like. With all those options and such subtle differences, how in the hell is the average citizen supposed to make an educated decision? Welcome to Rolling Paper 101, let’s split some hairs. Rolling Paper SizesStandard sizes for rolling papers are Single, 1 ¼ , 1 ½, Double and King Size.  These labels refer to the approximate amount of material that fits inside the rolled paper, relative to a Single.  So a 1 ¼...

How to Clean an Herb Grinder Remember when you were a kid?  Seems like in every other show, the hero was getting caught in quicksand.  It was a recurring conundrum, seemed like. Turns out quicksand isn’t that big of an obstacle in adult life. Unless you’re an herbal enthusiast; then it’s an ongoing reality.  Grinders gumming up is the nemesis of superheroes who smoke. So what’s a proactive protagonist to do? The Proper Way to Clean an Herb Grinder To start with a clean slate, we have to assume that you have a grinder that currently stuck in the quicksand,...

Since 1905, herb grinders have remained largely unchanged.  The patent, filed by William Henry Wingfield and John Balding, features the iconic design that comes to mind when you visualize a prototypical grinder. Although fundamentally the same on many levels, we’ll cover some of the variables that do change from one grinder to another in this article. Metal Grinders The vast majority of modern herb grinders are made of either zinc alloy or aluminum.  Alloys are a mixture of metals, which in the case of zinc alloy grinders helps keep the cost down.  Aluminum grinders, and especially aircraft grade aluminum grinders,...