A sidecar bubbler you'll actually keep on you
The "Colored Sidecar" answers the question every dry-pipe smoker eventually asks: what if this hit was smoother? LA Pipes builds this one as a proper sidecar bubbler — the mouthpiece runs off to the side so water can't rush your lips — in silver-fumed borosilicate that's wrapped and raked in color from end to end. Add a little water and a dry pull turns into a cooled, filtered one.
It's roughly six inches, sits flat on a table, and holds enough water to matter without becoming a countertop fixture you can't travel with.
Specs
- Type: Sidecar bubbler (water pipe, hand-sized)
- Length: ~6 inches
- Material: Silver-fumed borosilicate glass
- Finish: Wrapped and raked in assorted colors (each varies)
- Build: Deep bowl, fixed downstem, side carb, flat-sitting base
- Origin: Handmade in Los Angeles by LA Pipes
- Price: $59.99
Anyone stuck between a harsh dry pipe and a full-size bong they can't move. The sidecar geometry keeps water where it belongs and makes this comfortable to pass, and the flat base means it parks safely between hits. It's a strong pick for smokers who want cooler, filtered flower hits at home but still want to drop the same piece in a bag for a friend's place. Fumed glass also shifts tone over time as it seasons, so the color deepens the more you run it.
Silver fuming isn't a coating — it's vaporized silver worked into the glass, which is why fumed pieces develop that shifting warm-to-cool color play instead of a flat printed look. Pair that with a raked wrap and you get a bubbler that looks custom at a production-friendly price. Functionally, the deep bowl and centered downstem give you real percolation from a small amount of water, and the carb placement keeps the pull intuitive.
Compared with the pocket bubblers dominating this price tier, the "Colored Sidecar" is hand-blown boro with a mouthpiece designed so you never catch a splash.
Bubblers are the underrated middle child of the glass world — smoother than a spoon, more portable than a bong — and LA Pipes has leaned into blowing them in-house rather than importing. Sidecar builds trace back to studio glassblowers who wanted a cleaner draw angle, and having that detail on a sub-$60 piece is exactly the kind of quiet functional upgrade the West Coast pipe scene rewards.
This is grown-folks hardware: keep it away from anyone under 21, and know your local water-pipe rules before you carry it out the door.