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NimbusVapor

NimbusVapor

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Just got in my steven torus and I have to say this is the first chinese piece I have gotten that honestly impresses me when it comes to all aspects of build , quality and function.

Initial impresssions are good , I will update after a few uses.
 
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Joel W.

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New items arrived in fine condition. FC-UFO by Stevenlmz79 Both look really nice but I have not used them yet. Edit: the UFO hit amazingly smooth. Very happy!!!
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The hammer is from Hf_glass
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Benjaja

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Received my 3rd Gen Steven Dab rig and really quite like it. It took a drop on it's side due to my music but did not crack snapple or pop! Hit really well in my humble, inexperienced opinion of dabbing through it.

Someone else above asked about the nectar tubes. I got the two part one thats offered with the base and absolutely love it. I also ordered the mini honey straw for use w the air.

http://www.dhgate.com/product/new-g...r/232791541.html#myaccount_orderdetail-1-null

I like using the above piece and sometimes put the UFO's mouthpiece up top. Once Joda is a bit caught up I'd really like a simple mouthpiece made with ribbons of see through slime glass :)
 
MGG

MGG

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So my Stevenmlz Torus knock-off arrived today, in someways it exceeds my expectations, in others it fails.

- The chamber size is perfect for me, It was bigger than I was expecting and i'm glad it was, seems like this piece would be good for flowers and bubble hash
- it looks great, looks like american made glass, all the joints are really clean
- it's surprisingly thick, from the mouthpiece to the base everything is extremely thick and sturdy.
- it's 18mm female, which is a plus in my book with all these 14mm male oil rigs coming out.
- the vortex is legit (if you pull hard enough)

but here's the negatives, it's function;
- one of the perc holes is placed very very close to the 18mm joint which i'm pretty sure is a mistake as the one one the other side is place more appropriately further away, this causes the holes in the perc not to all fire correctly and it gets a chuggyness like a natural perc, this can be resolved in a few ways, angling the piece, adding more water, pulling harder. But it's a shame it wasn't something that was resolved from the start. I haven't tested it on either the sublimator or the cloud yet but my guess is the restriction of a vaporizer is going to cause it to only fire from that one hole unless i pull uncomfortably hard. I feel like this is a pretty easy mistake to resolve but it definitely makes a big impact in my opinion. and it's a shame because without this relatively small defect this would be my highest rated dhgate piece to date.
 
NimbusVapor

NimbusVapor

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Aftter some good use last night , here is what I have discovered about stevens torus.

This piece is well built , craftsmanship is on par with usa glass as there are virtualy any flaws and all the joints are welded really clean . Im not even joking when I say this piece is better constructed than most of my mobius pieces I own. Also to my surprise, It actually vortexs really , really nicely.

The one thing that kills my desire to use this piece as a daily driver is the perc.
As MGG said in the post above , it works well when dry firing but add a nail , vape , or a bowl ( not that I would ever combust ) and it only fires from 1 hole due to the restriction.

Not only are the holes not lined up evenly, I have come to realize that I think the perc is just to big to displace all that water in it and have it fire evenly. In order to get all the holes to fire you need to pull super hard. If the perc was smaller , similiar to the mothership style , and fired from a bunch of slits ( ex. showerhead , matrix perc ) this would be a 10/10

cliff notes

Pros - ( Pretty much everything about this piece except the style of perc )

- Thick , heavy and sturdy all around , feels and looks like high end usa glass.
- Very symmetrical and virtually flawless craftsmanship
- Vortex is beautiful ( near perfect ) when dry firing

Cons - ( the only con is the perc )

-Perc is to big and doesnt allow for the proper water displacement to get all 6 holes to fire.
-Perc being to big and only firing from one whole make sit extremely chuggy.

It seems as if the person making / designing this piece onlytested function without restriction.

I cant reccomend this piece to anyone until the perc is refined , but once they get that right I will be ordering another one for sure.
 
wildything

wildything

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weenstoned said:
http://www.dhgate.com/product/2015-new-glass-faberge-egg-mothership-water/238488989.html

Sunshinestore just posted 13 inch eggs with 18mm female joints. A tad pricier though at $77.

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wow on the second look I noticed that this egg is very different in design than any of the other eggs I've seen on dhgate, though it's hard to say that any o these features are improvements or not. The drains on this version are very wide so I'm very curious as to how this will function. Also the stem looks welded to the tube and I only noticed this on the 400 dollar dhgate eggs. all in all very interesting. I want to see a video lol.
 
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rakka

rakka

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Thanks for that Nimbus. Was gonna get it to try with the Solo but I guess the restrictions gonna be too much for it :(
 
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GSH

GSH

On a Möbius plane
063_XOBX said:
My cheap fab egg from Cmengglass just hit NYC, hopefully it's in my hands by the weekend.
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Just got my cmengglass Fab Egg in today. http://www.dhgate.com/product/two-f...g/237527726.html#myaccount_orderdetail-1-null

Best out of all of them so far IMO. Nice large showerhead which hits so smooth. Only needs the tiniest bit of water so it's great for dabs, lots of flavour. Glass seems thick and the base is too. Plus it was the cheapest egg I have bought I think, maybe Kathy's is a similar price, I can't remember.

Anyway here's the obligatory video, judge for yourselves :)

 
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Monsoon

Monsoon

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NimbusVapor said:
Aftter some good use last night , here is what I have discovered about stevens torus.

This piece is well built , craftsmanship is on par with usa glass as there are virtualy any flaws and all the joints are welded really clean . Im not even joking when I say this piece is better constructed than most of my mobius pieces I own. Also to my surprise, It actually vortexs really , really nicely.

The one thing that kills my desire to use this piece as a daily driver is the perc.
As MGG said in the post above , it works well when dry firing but add a nail , vape , or a bowl ( not that I would ever combust ) and it only fires from 1 hole due to the restriction.

Not only are the holes not lined up evenly, I have come to realize that I think the perc is just to big to displace all that water in it and have it fire evenly. In order to get all the holes to fire you need to pull super hard. If the perc was smaller , similiar to the mothership style , and fired from a bunch of slits ( ex. showerhead , matrix perc ) this would be a 10/10

cliff notes

Pros - ( Pretty much everything about this piece except the style of perc )

- Thick , heavy and sturdy all around , feels and looks like high end usa glass.
- Very symmetrical and virtually flawless craftsmanship
- Vortex is beautiful ( near perfect ) when dry firing

Cons - ( the only con is the perc )

-Perc is to big and doesnt allow for the proper water displacement to get all 6 holes to fire.
-Perc being to big and only firing from one whole make sit extremely chuggy.

It seems as if the person making / designing this piece onlytested function without restriction.

I cant reccomend this piece to anyone until the perc is refined , but once they get that right I will be ordering another one for sure.
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I got the WOL Torus which uses the same perc/design, had the same issue with it.
 
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John Lewus

John Lewus

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NimbusVapor said:
Aftter some good use last night , here is what I have discovered about stevens torus.

This piece is well built , craftsmanship is on par with usa glass as there are virtualy any flaws and all the joints are welded really clean . Im not even joking when I say this piece is better constructed than most of my mobius pieces I own. Also to my surprise, It actually vortexs really , really nicely.

The one thing that kills my desire to use this piece as a daily driver is the perc.
As MGG said in the post above , it works well when dry firing but add a nail , vape , or a bowl ( not that I would ever combust ) and it only fires from 1 hole due to the restriction.

Not only are the holes not lined up evenly, I have come to realize that I think the perc is just to big to displace all that water in it and have it fire evenly. In order to get all the holes to fire you need to pull super hard. If the perc was smaller , similiar to the mothership style , and fired from a bunch of slits ( ex. showerhead , matrix perc ) this would be a 10/10

cliff notes

Pros - ( Pretty much everything about this piece except the style of perc )

- Thick , heavy and sturdy all around , feels and looks like high end usa glass.
- Very symmetrical and virtually flawless craftsmanship
- Vortex is beautiful ( near perfect ) when dry firing

Cons - ( the only con is the perc )

-Perc is to big and doesnt allow for the proper water displacement to get all 6 holes to fire.
-Perc being to big and only firing from one whole make sit extremely chuggy.

It seems as if the person making / designing this piece onlytested function without restriction.

I cant reccomend this piece to anyone until the perc is refined , but once they get that right I will be ordering another one for sure.
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I find with my Herbalizer I have to pull hard to see any vortex. This won't be my daily driver for sure.
 
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mutten840

mutten840

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I have been meaning to post a video of my WOL 12 inch Torus piece. Compared to all my other glass from china, it is by far the nicest piece and had a very nice heavy feel to it. The holes and such are perfect and there is nothing crooked or off about it. I went with the 12 inch version after reading someone else commenting about the 12 inch version being much nicer. I only use it with an Enail setup and have nothing bad to say other than it takes a little lung power to get this going if you put too much water in it. I will get you guys an in action video soon. I have not used the non WOL version, but from the sounds of the comments. I went the right route on this one :tup:
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BoogerMan

BoogerMan

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I received my Torus today as well (not from Steven, from another seller that only had 2 in stock but it's the same one and it was only $55 and it came with a ceramic nail and silicon jar).

Glad I only spent $55 because like everyone else is saying, the quality is the best I have ever received. Straight and symmetrical everything. One tiny bubble at the joint weld. That's it. And the base is the thickest I've yet to receive. 15mm thick :freak: this thing could do some serious damage to a thiefs head haha ;)

If the function was there, this piece would be perfect but the function isn't there.

The perc needs more holes and they need to be smaller and possibly higher up in the chamber.

It chugs like no other and is impossible to incycle if using a carb cap.

I'll be keeping it for a while but I'm hoping Steven continues with his first torus design because that one should function a million times better.

EDIT: I've had 2 dabs out of this thing and the taste is excellent. The few large holes provide minimal diffusion. It's nice and the chug is different for a change which is cool. I just wish it stacked bubbles better and could incycle better. Hopefully a V2 will be made and will fix the function issue.
 
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mixchu69

mixchu69

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BoogerMan said:
Got some good news and some bad news.

First the bad news.

The honeycomb to 4 hole donut/egg? Arrived broken. I could tell that the joint support was cold welded like the first batch of Kathy eggs. No way it was going to hold up in shipping. It was packaged really well though. The piece itself looks awesome and the glass is decently thick. The honeycomb is right about the intake hole so it shouldn't have much of that natural chug that honeycomb pieces do. The base isn't super wide but since the joint is so close to the piece I think it might? Work with an e-nail. Going to contact the seller for either a replacement (if the joint weld issue gets fixed) or a refund.

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On a brighter note EVERYONE NEEDS TO GO BUY THIS DOUBLE TREE PERC PIECE FROM YINGMIN. GB-194. 18mm female joint. All slits fire evenly. Insanely smooth pull. The joint weld is wayyyyy thicker than when I bought this same piece a while ago (maybe 1 year ago). 8 arms on the bottom, 12 on the top. 2 slits per arm. 40 slits total. And the best part is, the arms are welded to the bottom and aren't left open like most of the time :D
http://m.dhgate.com/product/hot-sell-glass-bong-glass-smoking-pipe-with/191000259.html#pd-019
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Hey boogerman,

You convinced me to get the gb 194 from your video and recommendation. Excited to get a $600 piece for a 1/10 of the price. Hopefully, you are still enjoying it.
 
BoogerMan

BoogerMan

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mixchu69 said:
Hey boogerman,

You convinced me to get the gb 194 from your video and recommendation. Excited to get a $600 piece for a 1/10 of the price. Hopefully, you are still enjoying it.
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I have used it every since I have gotten it up until today because I got the torus. I was using it for both flower and concentrates (just switching the drop down). This is rare for me to use a piece for a week in a row like this. I usually use a new piece for a day or two but then it falls into the rotation with the other pieces I have where it won't get used for another month. My gb-194 will be getting used multiple times a month.

It is in my top 5 favorite pieces out of my collection. One of the smoothest hitting and nicest quality pieces I have received.

@Frederick McGuire if you don't have the GB-194 you must buy it. It has the mouthpiece style you like (lips fit inside) and has an 18mm female joint!
 
mrgohamilton

mrgohamilton

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got my Pink 9" egg in from CCG. Thankfully it has the showerhead slits on the perc instead of like the pinholes on my 12" clear egg from them. Every slit on the perc fires as well. Very well crafted and doesn't have any flaws (that i have seen thus far).

pics and video coming soon
 
Mister G

Mister G

Deceptively Old Fart
Just received, cleaned and hit my new Steven TorusKO with my Infinity. Will echo all previous reviewers who were impressed with build quality and glass thickness, this is one well made and sturdy piece. It does take a lot of water to produce the vortex (which is cool and long lasting), which makes the initial draw a harder pull, but I'm strong lunged and the Infinity has very little restriction, so combined it's not an issue for me personally.

Just one bowl in, but I'm pretty happy and will start rotating this with my D022.

My favorite part is the sturdiness, very low tip-over danger.

Have to run but will try to take pics soon when I can do it in the sun. Sorry, can't do video.
 
wootze

wootze

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Got my green accent dcycler today.
Still use the 1st one I got. Greeny is 1 oz heavier, essentially same size.
The lip is 2mm thicker, base, 1 mm. Height to mp is 5/16" shorter. No way to gauge thickness of initial tubing but it's thicker and better quality glass. Water test, better, longer vortex.

And here's the thing...the glass magnifies the spin and vortex. You can seriously watch your cares drain away.
 
duke808dub

duke808dub

Member
mrgohamilton said:
got my Pink 9" egg in from CCG. Thankfully it has the showerhead slits on the perc instead of like the pinholes on my 12" clear egg from them. Every slit on the perc fires as well. Very well crafted and doesn't have any flaws (that i have seen thus far).

pics and video coming soon
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Glad to hear it has the shower head slits. Can't wait to see your pics and vids! Mine should be in tomorrow or Saturday
 
Cannabis Connoisseur

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wootze said:
Got my green accent dcycler today.
Still use the 1st one I got. Greeny is 1 oz heavier, essentially same size.
The lip is 2mm thicker, base, 1 mm. Height to mp is 5/16" shorter. No way to gauge thickness of initial tubing but it's thicker and better quality glass. Water test, better, longer vortex.

And here's the thing...the glass magnifies the spin and vortex. You can seriously watch your cares drain away.
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Link please
 
ataxian

ataxian

PALE BLUE DOT
mrgohamilton said:
got my Pink 9" egg in from CCG. Thankfully it has the showerhead slits on the perc instead of like the pinholes on my 12" clear egg from them. Every slit on the perc fires as well. Very well crafted and doesn't have any flaws (that i have seen thus far).

pics and video coming soon
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I have a 9" Egg as well ordered.
I have my FC 186 and it works unreal with a NANO.
The D022 works well too!
My FC 187 has a larger mouthpiece however works well with a Chillum!
The FC 186 perk is lower and fires well!
Two weeks from order!
 
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