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.