Bowl prices, along with everything else on the planet just keep going up. Materials, labor, and time...they really add up, but I managed to make a bowl with all of the same parts included. Same US clay, same US artisans, same craftsmanship.
We wanted to make a lower priced hookah bowl, with all the same materials, so what did we skimp on? Not a lot really, and nothing in terms of performance.
Less glazing and less detail to bring down costs, and, we will keep this bowl as a HookahJohn exclusive and cut the profit margin a bit.
You can call this bowl whatever you want, a cheap hookah bowl, an economy hookah bowl, the poor man's hookah bowl, but what you can definitely call it is yet another great hookah product brought to you by HookahJohn.