I saw the Marley Natural Spoon Pipe online some time ago and immediately fell in love with it's simple wood & glass design. The price was a bit high in my opinion, but I finally decided to order one when I found it for $10-15 less on PPPI. Out of the box, it really is a good looking pipe. It wasn't long, however, until I discovered a major design flaw... the weight of the glass end is not heavy enough to counter-balance the mouthpiece end so it ends up tipping, defeating the whole purpose of the flat wooden base. Had the bottom of the entire glass portion of the pipe been enclosed instead of being open-bottomed, there would be no issue in balance. The open bottom on the glass bowl also makes no sense in that it needlessly exposes the inside of the wood base to smoke and resin buildup. (Regarding that wood base, their design team should have taken things one step further and turned it into a little compartment to hold extra flower. Oh, well...) I do still like the pipe and will keep it in my rotation, but I'm honestly disappointed knowing how much better it could have been.
I had a red skull bong exactly like this, it was my first bong that i got after turning 21 celebrating my first 4/20 so it was half off. I was in love with that bong until my cat decided to jump on the table and push it off breaking it. I was very upset. I wanted to get the exact same bong, that's how much i loved it (even some of my friends were showing pictures of it to their other friends because they really liked it too), and i spent over a year searching different dispo's and websites but everywhere i could find it, it was out of stock until i found it on this website. Instead of it being red, the one i ordered here came as green with a nice rainbow tint and i couldn't be happier! It hits even better than i remembered. Definitely recommend getting your hands on this while you can! It's a hard piece to track down, its a bit heavy, but the skull is really big so u get some niiiice hits, especially if you get a bigger bowl piece with it.