Banger nails can be made from anything and glasses from titanium and glass to quartz crystal the flat bottom feature of banger nails makes it easy to get an evenly heated surface using sustained slowly moving contact with a torch lighter the tubing of the banger which leads to the water pipe helps make the most of controlled air intake leading into the body of the rig helping keep an even pull you can see this style of tubing on most banger nails such as the 2mm thick quartz banger nail banger are versatile when it comes to being used with or without a carb cap the caps allow for dabbing at a lower temperature which helps to maintain a clearer tasting pull high-temperature dabbers or those who are super concerned about torching their nail might want to consider even getting an adapter piece for the banger in order to space it a little further away from the rig itself as heat can cause stress fractures in the pieces to check out the benefits of both low temp and high temp dabbing