How about this:
https://www.dhgate.com/p...cinfo=17,null,1#svh-1-5|null:null:r1709593784

I've never seen or used this device or a GVG for that matter. However, to my untrained eye it looks like a potentially viable complete kit (minus the copper or ceramic disc) for a tiny fraction of the price of a GVG. The water trap might even be a bonus.

A quick search on dhgate will bring up a plethora of J-hooks and fittings if you are looking for something else.

i don't see how you could make that into a GVG like device

Having never seen or used a GVG, maybe I am completely mistaken. My thoughts were that the spice could be loaded onto a ball of steel wool like material or similar, packed into the cone and heated with a torch. If any spice melts and flows away, it will collect in the bulb and this can be quickly vapourised with the torch during the same draw.

The end bit looks good, antares..anyway dunhuanggate is a Chinese wholesale website, they used to have paypal, but now they don't....0ne(1) prolly has to sign up for a new payment method?

anyways, you do not need a j-hook, actually a j-hook is less GVG like. Look at these.

$ 7.00 https://www.ebay.com/itm/173123665058 select 14/23 (may need to cut the slanted end)
The milky part in the middle, you could make that look clear again with a polishing tool

$ 1.00 https://www.ebay.com/itm/323462869340 stainless steel k-clip

$ 3.00 https://www.ebay.com/itm/223133495060 your chamber

$ 2.00 https://www.ebay.com/itm/222923152965 your ceramic reducer

$ 1.00 https://www.ebay.com/itm/132875818020 perhaps join a better mouth

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UNDER $ 15.00 TOTAL - FREE SHIP
ALL YOU NEED NOW IS THE CERAMIC STONE AND SOME MINOR STUFF

you could also use the $ 15.00 hammer type as a base

https://www.ebay.com/itm/352510902468 must then change middle chamber to 18/18
....and it will then most definitely cost more

That Hammer thing looks hyper fancy xD

Yeah changing it to 18/18 is bad but then you also need to make sure that the stuff of the chamber above does not FALL into the hammer thing - because the hole in the top of the adapter is as big as the hole in the bottom of the adapter ....


But 1 Question to the mouth piece:

The mouth piece has 1 fixed size. So how do you know that it fits into the J-Hooks?

In that intezam build the j-hook had an 18mm connection and we had to find an 18/18 chamber and it was not easy to find online, its much cheaper to find a 14/18 chamber, we think. You can find it....but it might create difficulty and delay.The 0ne(1) we linked probably over-charges for the shipping.

And also, the hammer is not easy to clean. It's nice that it stands upright tho. But you could use a K clip to make the other 0ne(1) stand...we think

...about the mouth pieces: you don't know, but you get 5 pieces, you can break 4 and make the last 0ne(1) fit? They were not meant for j-hooks which often have a bulb like end, but for the above type with the straight glass tube ending

If I wont find / create that magic ceramic disc and if its only all about a barricade between the flame and the spice, won't I just also use another Concentrate Pad instead of this? I am just not sure how much air is let through that thing, but as it's also used 1 level below to hold the spice, then shouldn't it be also fine as the filter above?

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Whats the perfect size for the liquid pad? It must be as big as possible, but still fit the Smoking Chamber. I have my eyes on a 15 mm version and a 11 mm Version, but I guess 11 is way too small if the opening of the chamber is 18 mm. 15 should be much better? Also 11 mm would fall into the 14 mm hook.

THXXX

this is a homemade pad we use in 0ne(1) our other DIY outdoor pipes

Ah ok that looks also nice ....!

But now I imagined 1 other thing:

That hammer looks soooo coool.

I will still build the real Buddha. But I may also buy the hammer, BUT I dont want to spend all those parts for a 2nd 18mm-Chamber.

Therefore what drawbacks would it have to just place the ceramic filter (or concentrate pad) onto the 18 mm Hammer DIRECTLY and just vape it like this?

Of course that whole chamber thing must be better. But if I keep attention with the flame, wont it also be kind of worth it?

Look at the picture, but I guess it's clear how I mean:

we cannot answer that, but maybe someboday else can. If you don't use any bowl at all, the opening seems rather large for a mashine, and its widening towards the top from 18 to 23mm. These kind of bubblers usually have a head with a lifting handle so that 0ne(1) can lift the head in order to empty out the smoalk acummulated inside.....not that it matters here....just sayin...if too much air gets through, your lungs fill up quickly with moar air rather than vapour and at 0ne(1) point you must exhale and there is potential to ruin the session..