Eyce is the Bend, Oregon, brand that made silicone a serious pipe material. Brothers Charles and Bruce Hoch launched it in 2013 with a mold that froze a water pipe out of ice, then built a lineup of platinum-cured silicone spoons, beakers, bubblers and dab rigs with glass, quartz and titanium parts. Since 2024 it has been back under Charles Hoch, through a Nevada company he manages with DaVinci founder Cortney Smith.
The Hoch brothers and the ice pipe
The story starts with a broken glass piece. Charles Hoch and his brother Bruce founded Eyce in Bend in July 2013, Charles as CEO and Bruce as COO and principal engineer, and their answer to shattered glass was the Eyce Mold: a silicone mold that made a working water pipe entirely out of ice.
From there they moved into silicone smoking gear, drawing on Bruce's mechanical engineering background and Charles's entrepreneurial experience. Eyce says that 2013 launch created a whole new product category, silicone smoking pipes, and the brand still trades as Eyce Molds, family owned and operated in Bend.
Silicone is a crowded aisle now, with names like Ooze selling flexible bongs, water pipes and nectar collectors, but Eyce was early and kept its patents close. By late 2019 it held 19 patents across four countries, and its registrations cover the United States, Canada, China and the European Union.
Why every piece is platinum-cured
Eyce builds every silicone body from platinum-cured, food-grade silicone, and in June 2026 it laid out why. In platinum curing, a platinum catalyst links two silicone components with no byproducts. Peroxide curing runs on a free-radical reaction that leaves volatile leftovers behind, which can surface later as blooming, a powdery white film that makes a piece feel faintly greasy.
The silicone is only half the build. Eyce pairs it with borosilicate glass bowls and downstems, quartz bangers and titanium hardware, and its house motto sums up the attitude: durability that rips.
Spoons, beakers and bubblers
The Eyce Spoon is the piece that built the name. It pairs a silicone body with an inlaid borosilicate glass bowl, a stash container under the lid and a stainless steel poker, all for $19.99. The newer Gavel Spoon adds a larger stash area and a flat base that won't roll off the table.
- Eyce Beaker: a 12-inch silicone water pipe with a 14mm glass bowl, diffused borosilicate downstem, ice catcher, large hidden container, hidden rolling tray and a magnetic ring lighter holder
- Mini Beaker: the scaled-down version, which got its own buyer's guide on the Eyce blog in September 2026
- Hammer Bubbler: a dry-herb bubbler with a removable glass bowl, stash container and a top cap that swaps with Eyce Rig caps
- Glacier Spoon and a silicone one-hitter and dugout for pocket duty
Rigs, collectors and the Sidecar
The Rig 2.0 is a sturdier take on the original Eyce Rig, with reinforced chamber walls, a 10mm borosilicate collar that holds a reversible titanium nail and doubles as a heat barrier, a built-in concentrate container and four tool slots, sized to fit in a stash box. The Collector runs multi-percolator water filtration to a proprietary GR2 titanium nozzle, with a storage container that also fits the Rig 2.0 and Hammer.
The Solid Color Silicone Sidecar Dab Rig puts a rotating neck on a silicone body with a 14mm quartz bucket and a glass container lid that doubles as a carb cap, and it converts for dry material.
ORAFLEX, ProTeck and the PV1
ORAFLEX, short for Over-molded Rubber Art, is Eyce's answer to people who miss the look of glass. The first ORAFLEX spoon launched in November 2021 with two layers of platinum-cured silicone, a glossy outer shell over a hand-crafted inner layer, meant to mirror hand-blown glass.
It came in 20 color and design variations and carried a utility patent. The series now includes the Sherlock, Spiral, Honeycomb and Switchback spoons, the Shorty and the ORAFLEX Rig with a 10mm 45-degree quartz bucket and removable mouthpiece.
The ProTeck Glass Series flips the formula, blending glass and silicone in pieces like the Alien Spoon and the Roller. The PV1 is Eyce's dry-herb vape: a glass-coated alumina ceramic chamber, a stainless steel airflow path, a rotating mouthpiece and AutoFlow presets that climb gradually through four heat bands between 350 and 430°F over five minutes, for $79.99.
Greenlane, the 2024 buyback and DaVinci
Eyce spent more than seven years as a Greenlane partner before the distributor bought it outright in a deal announced March 3, 2021. In November 2021, Bruce Hoch said the brothers had sold more than one million specialty products since 2013.
The brand went back to its founders' side three years later. Under an agreement effective May 1, 2024, a Nevada company managed by Charles Hoch and Cortney Smith bought all of the intellectual property, specified inventory and other assets of both the Eyce and DaVinci brands from Greenlane. The price was paid through a package of agreements led by a loan modification, and the buyer gave Greenlane a six-month preliminary distribution deal. Eyce is now sold in eight countries.