Hi Guys, I said, months ago, in this thread how I ordered a QB-GON grinder, a solid grinder made in Greece with wood encasing and blades mechanism. To be honnest before to get it I wasn't impressed, but I talked with the maker and decided to support his idea and bought a unit, I got a tiny discount but it's not a low budget grinder since it retails at 139€.
Here the grinder:
In short there is 4 layers:
- top layer, you have to remove it to load the grinder or to remove the mechanism of blades
- medium up layer, it contains the mechanism
- medium bottom layer, it's the collection chamber, there is a screen (removeable) to allow kief to go throug in the last layer chamber
- bottom layer is the kief collection chamber or the main chamber if, like me you remove the screen. the metal cup is magnetically attached
Every layer is magnetically attached to each others and you can flip them to work your own "custom" design, yes ALL layers are flip-able!
The mechanism is made of moving blades AND every moving blade have its unmoving counterpart blade. made from stainless steel. There was a lot of different mechanisms tested.
The mechanism shown here is old, the two differents versions I had wasn't similar to this one.
The one I ordered came in during Falls 2020, I'm a grower and the weed wasn't dry enough at the moment, and usually I haven't flowers with less than 45% RH since I'm living in a old stone made house in a forest. This is to say I initially disliked the QB-GON cause it was impossible to turn only after 2-3 loads of pretty moist flowers and since I use that sort of moistur content all the time... although I noticed a lot of grinders can't handle that moisture level well enough. So, after a good cleaning (I'll come back on that topic above), I tried to dry a lot more some buds and noticed the QB-GON handled it perfectly, very fine grind size using that first mechanism but requires very well dried flowers (less than 30%RH I believe).
Maybe I'm a dick but I said the QB-GON guys their grinder would be unusuable for me since most of my flowers have a high humidity content, I like that for the fresher taste rather than too dry flowers, by the past I was placing some buds on an electrical device slightly hot to dry it but with kids I can't do that anymore.
After some months I got a mail saying a new mechanism was available for beta testing in order to get the grinder to work with moist flowers and for faster grind (it was another issue I noticed with the first mechanism but related to moisture also). And it works like specified with practically no build up on the blades, fill it, a few turns and the load is gone in the bottom chamber! Even with pretty moist flowers. I'm not allowed to specify the exact differences about mechanism but the grind is definitively on the coarse side... for me it's nice too although I know a lot of peoples appreciate the most finer grinds. It's very easy to turn for both mechanisms with appropriatly cured flowers!
Here you can see the new mechanism grind size And here the stock "old" mechanism grind size
The cleaning is easier than for others grinders, mechanism is the only part where there is build up, you just have to dismantle it (it's fast and easy) and throw eveyrithing in an iso jar, a quick brush, rinse and dry. since all parts are flat it's easier than teeth based grinders.
The nice things is they are planning to sell it, in the future, with different mechanism options in regard to the customer preference. As well they mentionned an incoming 3 parts versions. I really appreciate how deep they are going in testing mechanisms, patterns, configurations in order to try to satisfy anybody with the same unit, I believe it is their main goal but since peoples are so different they will probably sell custom mechanism (not for one people but for a grind's style). Please notice the actuals units for sale come with the fine grind mechanism.
Really, my doubts are gone, if you want a high end grinder with great support and you are ready to spend the right cost you can give a try to the QB-GON grinder. On top of that it's a great looking device!
PPN
