{"id":76057,"date":"2024-06-07T09:46:13","date_gmt":"2024-06-07T17:46:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/2024\/06\/07\/kgb-glass-makes-pipes-that-look-like-real-donuts\/"},"modified":"2024-06-07T12:45:30","modified_gmt":"2024-06-07T20:45:30","slug":"kgb-glass-makes-pipes-that-look-like-real-donuts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/2024\/06\/07\/kgb-glass-makes-pipes-that-look-like-real-donuts\/","title":{"rendered":"KGB Glass Makes Pipes That Look Like Real Donuts"},"content":{"rendered":"

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All across America, ravenous fans have turned collecting donut pipes into \u201ckind of like a hunt,\u201d says 36-year-old, Portland, Maine glassblower Brian Owoc, who has a four-month-long waiting list to buy one of his highly coveted, hyperreal glass sculptures.<\/p>\n

Made under the name KGB Glass<\/a>, Owoc\u2019s donuts fetch up to $1,000 per piece, or $8,000 for a 2015 collaboration with the glass artist, Calm. Available at select shops nationwide, stores are regularly getting calls from desperate collectors. One California collector has 73 donuts and climbing. Several fans have tattoos of KGB\u2019s logo on their bodies. The ravenous fan base still amazes Owoc, who never went to art school and doesn\u2019t consider himself an artist.<\/p>\n

\u201cI never thought I would have collectors of my work,\u201d he said. \u201cIn early days of the donuts I was struggling \u2014 living week to week, and spoon to spoon.\u201d<\/p>\n

A former head baker at a Dunkin\u2019 Donuts, Owoc traded his garage space for pipe-making lessons in 1999. In 2007, Maine\u2019s Royal River Glass Studio accepted him, boosted his skills and he went shop-to-shop, selling pipes.<\/p>\n

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Donuts are a personal passion, Owoc said. He\u2019s made well over a quarter million real ones, and made his first donut pipe in 2008. \u201cI thought to myself, \u2018Man, there needs to be a donut pipe\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n

Initially, donuts were slow to sell until Vermont\u2019s \u201cBern Gallery\u201d brought Owoc\u2019s work to the American Glass Expo trade show in 2013, and they were snatched up. Today, over 6,500 donut pipes could be circulating through the U.S.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s something about it that brings out happiness,\u201d he\u2019s discovered. \u201cIt\u2019s just like \u2014 instant smiles, from young people to older people.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThere are people that buy the donut pieces that don\u2019t even smoke out of them.\u201d<\/p>\n

Published in issue 21<\/a> of Cannabis Now<\/em>. LEARN MORE<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

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