So I decided to do an order of every grinder Puffitup.com orders, and I ended up with a few more than that! Thanks Randy.
First to review in the Puffitup 2 piece. This is a very solid grinder with a great action, high build quality and an O ring, which is nice. The finish seems high quality and I found absolutely no signs of poor machining or chipping aluminum. This is available for sale.
Puffitup 4 piece. Just as nice. The whole unit is surprisingly light for a four piece, and has a mesh on the finer side of the fence, leading to a lower amount but higher quality yield. Available for sale. Basically a big brother to the 2 piece, built along the same exterior motif and using similar teeth. The holes I believe are on the medium-to-large size so not the best four piece in existence for something like the MFLB - I mention this because I saw some discussion on this post about hole size in 4PCs, how many prefer smaller. For the ridiculously low price Puffitup asks for, this is a great grinder.
Puffitup rosewood grinder. I had an idea in my head that wood grinders with set pins would grind like crap. WRONG. This thing grinds just as fine as any traditional metal grinder and and finer than most. One of the pins on mine was a little too tall and made grinding rough, I just bent it ever so slightly off center so that it now works beautifully. This is a big-ass grinder with zero magnet or metal post in the middle, so it's nothing but grinding area, minus the pins themselves. I've heard some wood grinders have a tendency for the herb to stay in little crevices, not the case here. Available for general sale.
This is a weird one, called the Grindtainer.
http://www.grindtainer.com/ It's basically a plastic container with a grinder built in by having a top with teeth while also having teeth on the bottom of the container. It's a great idea which Randy said they are trying to improve the quality of (it seems pretty quality now, but even the Mona Lisa could use a bigger rack
) and is going to sell through puffitup.com. I hope the little company producing these finds success, their product is pretty damn clever. As for how it grinds, completely reasonably, as well as any other plastic grinder, and you'll be happy to have it when you need a grinder, the lack of a magnet or threads just means you have to hold it together while grinding. I don't know why the medical community hasn't jumped on these, it's totally the sort of thing where someone might say "I'm going to X club instead of Y club because X club sells their stuff in those awesome grinder containers." I'd be using it as a carry around container if it weren't for the better, classier, totally awesome Scout-type grinder I also got as a bonus because Puffitup is tits.
I mentioned a Scout type grinder to Randy, saying that the Vapeworld Aerospaced-branded Scout has been out of stock for like a year and that the Spacecase model is absurdly expensive. He informed me that he's been toying around with a beta Scout-type grinder and mailed me one! Now this is what I need - a smell proof, decently large but pocket sized container I can carry around at all times with a built in grinder. This is actually what I've been storing my preground herbals in for a few weeks, and love it. The magnets in this mother are STRONG, that lid isn't going anywhere. It should go prodo just so I can get a spare!
I ordered the press available on the website and am very pleased, especially for the price. I would like to have a 5 or 10 dollar-extra option to have aluminum dowels instead of plastic, although these are super nice plastic dowels. Just as nice or nicer than a buddy's press which was purchased in a headshop for a whopping 60 bucks.
Randy also sent me a simple plastic grinder with a strong magnet and pyramidal-shaped teeth. If this were anyone's first grinder they'd be very pleased, super smooth action and very consistent grind.
Randy sent me another, beta/nonproduction grinder, which is basically the teeniest metal grinder I've ever seen. This thing is minute, about 133% of the width of a quarter, and about half as tall as one. Some people who immediately consider this a novelty based on its size, but I've actually been using it and am impressed by its grinding ability. You need to break up herbal somewhat just to make it fit, but it does a great job making a truly good grind. This grinder is tiny enough to simply live in your pocket/purse/backpack and you'd never realize it was there until you actually needed it. Just... Tiny. It's a nice little grinder for sure, with the same quality (nice C&C work, Oring, strong magnets) as the other Puffitup metal grinders.
I also think Puffitup should make little machined containers, just like Spacecase does. I've always been a glass jar guy but for some reason I've really come to like the container in the Scout and would love to have a few more, inexpensive Puffitup designed, steel-cylinder style containers.
Pretty damn pleased overall.
