A Piece of Art: Just got my new Myrtlezap(lots of pictures included)!

[Madcap Laughed]

If you want an awesome vaporizer, and dont want to wait for the purple days, i'd say get a myrtlezap because its even better! First, the Myrtlezap came with the beautiful myrtle wood unit itself, a car adapter, wall plug, 2 stems, aroma butterfly, essential lemon oil(smells divine) in a cool jar, and flax seed oil to polish the myrtle's wood all for $145, which included shipping and it arrived super fast, and Rick, the inventor of the aromazap and myrtlezap responds to emails super quick and nicely!

the myrtlezap is the nicest thing i own now, and its something i've already fallen in love with and will surely cherish it forever! its got so much soul and heart. its warmth and aromas are unlike all the other things i've used in my life.

ok, now for the good part; i've taken pictures!

greeting me was 2 flax oil gel things to polish my myrtle, and i know i will!

oh wow, i knew mine was special the note is a very nice touch, and shows how much they care. he even remembered which one mine was, which then again, is easy to imagine because of how beautiful it is.

thats the ac adapter' box, its made by jameco who i hear is the best!

thats the car adapter

thats the aroma butterfly flower cup. i have that in the unit right now with a few drops of lemon essential oil it came with, and its super pleasing. it really is a great aromatherapy device!

those are the stems and the jar of essential oils.

and now for the main event and what most will want to scroll down too, a series of pictures from the myrtlezap's photo shoot! my camera is very bad, and i didnt spend time on lighting, but its beauty still is clear, even though you cant appreciate the fact the wood grain patterns look three dimensonal or even more . its beautiful, you could get lost in the wood!

*SPECIAL COLLECTION - THE ENCHANTING AND MYSTIFING DREAM BLUE LED LIGHT*

 

[lwien]

If you want an awesome vaporizer, and dont want to wait for the purple days, i'd say get a myrtlezap because its even better!

Better? With all the improvements that Tom made on the original design, like using a stainless steel heat exchanger, adding fins to the heat exchanger, going to a totally lead free design that is RoHS compliant, and various other improvements, I have a hard time believing this. Without coming from an aesthetics point of view, please tell me how it's better? I'm not saying that it's not, but I'd like a bit of qualification here.

 

[Madcap Laughed]

these guys are the originals and have been doing it a long time and you can tell because on my old roomates purple days, his vapor stems never interacted as well with the base unit as they do on the myrtlezap. the myrtlezap gives off thicker steamier hits, because it seems to get a little warmer, the led light is nicer, and it has the butterfly flower cup. and i like the myrtlewood much better than cherry wood because of all the medicinal benefits and mythology of myrtle wood. its also priced lower, and available with fast shipping(i got mine 3 days after the order). dont get me wrong, purple days is a 9.3, but myrtlezap is a 9.7. they are both extremely similar, but there are those reasons and more why i say you'd be better off getting a myrtlezap!

 

[Madcap Laughed]

also, my friends was made of tea tree i believe, which i hated because tea tree is known to mimic female estrogen in the body, and i was always worried about the smoke having those estrogenic properties from the tea tree wood body.

 

[lwien]

A few things. I sure do like the looks of myrtlewood, and I also like the looks of that LED, but from what I can recall, Tom ditched the LED because of the high failure rate, and he didn't use the myrtlewood because of expansion problems causing the heat exchanger to dislodge of it's anchors. I could be wrong here, so if someone else can chime in, that would be great.

I have no idea how you would gain any medicinal benefits of myrtelwood as it's used in the vape or gain any benefits due to any mythology that may be attributed to it.

Also, from the pics, it looks like the bowls may be made from brass. If that is true, I would prefer the stainless steel used on the PD due to health concerns in the use of brass..........but having said all that, the myrtlewood with the LED sure is purty.

btw, do you know what the heat exchanger is made of and if the vape is RoHS compliant?

 

[Madcap Laughed]

i was a bit uneasy of the stainless steel in the purple days because there are some reports linking it to lung cancer(lots of stainless steel workers and welders getting lung cancer). cast iron is supposed to be the safest metal, i wonder why no vapes use cast-iron? that could be interesting, they do hold heat very well.

 

[Beezleb]

I am probably wrong but I think myrtle wood is a hard wood and should perform similar to the PD but I am only surmising that.

Its certainly worthy of consideration for someone interested in a PD style vape.

Due to the beauty and price point it will likely attract some potential PD purchasers. Perhaps we can get some multi reviews of it soon.

 

[lwien]

i was a bit uneasy of the stainless steel in the purple days because there are some reports linking it to lung cancer

Man, I hope not. Stainless steel is used in every high-end kitchen, both in the home and in restaurants and used in their heating appliances as well as their cooking utensils. If it's a health concern, than we are all in a world of shit.

But it would be nice if the Aromazap took some of the purchasing pressure off of the PD so that those that want a PD can get one a bit sooner than what's going on now.

 

[Madcap Laughed]

i'll post a demonstration on youtube tomorrow! one thing i really love about the myrtlezap is its smell! its got a spicy scent that is comforting! its just glowin blue in the night!

 

[gak hater]

Due to the beauty and price point it will likely attract some potential PD purchasers. Perhaps we can get some multi reviews of it soon.

i think the main reason would be availability

and madcap laughed i dig your
user name!

 

[Beezleb]

I dont know, theres a decent price gap. It will surely influence.

 

[rukus13]

I think that spicey smell of the wood will disipate with time. My PD smelled very woody when I first got it to the point that it influenced the flavor and I didn't like it but within a few days of burn in it got weak enough not to notice and now it doesn't smell at all anymore. I wonder if it will take the PD stems. I definitely would go with stainless steel. Got to figure the workers are exposed to chemicals and dust and whatnot used in the manufacturing process. If it gives off some kind of toxic fume the stems use very little ss to start with. I doubt it would be enough to cause any kind of cancer if there is even a link.

Major drawback I can see is that they only offer a 90 day warranty whereas Tom offers three years. Thats a major difference.

http://www.aromazap.com/index.php?o...duct-guarantee&catid=25:the-project&Itemid=56

 

[Chubba]

+1 rukus, exactly the same with my PD.

Looks pretty narly, I'll be interested to see more reviews about these units.

 

[Purple-Days]

Lwien, the Myrtlewood is a nice hard wood. It's the wood I used to make the first myrtlewood Zap, from the parts of our failed Douglas Fir Aromazap. Myrtlewood is very pretty and should last a lot longer than the soft woods used in the Aromazap.

Madcap, I thought you would like the Zap, good choice to go with the Myrtlewood. Myrtlewood leaves can be used as a substitute for Bay Leaves in cooking. Thus the spicey smell and yes the odor will disipate with a little time. I sent Rick flax caps when I sent him that first stick of Myrtlewood. I didn't want a petro-chem finish. Glad to see he is still using them.

 

[High n Dry]

i was a bit uneasy of the stainless steel in the purple days because there are some reports linking it to lung cancer(lots of stainless steel workers and welders getting lung cancer). cast iron is supposed to be the safest metal, i wonder why no vapes use cast-iron? that could be interesting, they do hold heat very well.

what about the brass? Brass contains a very tiny amount of lead. Because temperatures produced in Aromazap are so low(under 400 degreesF), any trace of lead that is in the brass stays in the brass. Temperatures are high enough to make vapor from herbal material but are also way too low to release any lead from the brass

 

[Madcap Laughed]

i dont think the 90 days warranty is bad because they run the units for 24 hours before they are shipped out to make sure verything is ok, and if anything should go wrong, its usually in the first 90 days! but i feel confident that if something happened, it wouldnt be a problem to get repairs as there are no third party business to deal with, you are buying and talking directly to the inventor of the product(theres only two or three people that build\handle the business)! kind of like with the purple days maybe its my imagination, but the bowl seems a little bigger on the myrtlezap. but im sure the stems are most likely interchagable?

 

[lwien]

Lwien, the Myrtlewood is a nice hard wood. It's the wood I used to make the first myrtlewood Zap, from the parts of our failed Douglas Fir Aromazap. Myrtlewood is very pretty and should last a lot longer than the soft woods used in the Aromazap.

Madcap, I thought you would like the Zap, good choice to go with the Myrtlewood. Myrtlewood leaves can be used as a substitute for Bay Leaves in cooking. Thus the spicey smell and yes the odor will disipate with a little time. I sent Rick flax caps when I sent him that first stick of Myrtlewood. I didn't want a petro-chem finish. Glad to see he is still using them.

Ah. Must have it confused with another wood. That wood is really purty. Any reason why you don't offer it as an option other than wanting to differentiate the PD from the AromaZap?

 

[runner]

I sent Rick flax caps when I sent him that first stick of Myrtlewood. I didn't want a petro-chem finish. Glad to see he is still using them.

In the fall of 2007 an old customer living in Oregon asked us if we would build a custom Aromazap made from Myrtlewood, a very dense and colorful hardwood that is only commercially available in the coastal areas of Oregon. He supplied the wood and we made one for him and another to try ourselves.

From the Aromazap website. I'm sure you've read it before, I just found it entertaining that you were mentioned (he should probably even link the PD site since he's using your round design, myrtlewood, and flax seed oil ideas).

 

[Purple-Days]

Lwien, the reason is, myrtlewood is his signature wood. My buddy Dave up the road was supplying all the Myrtlewood and likely still is. It is very pretty stuff. And hard too. I would like to use it, but I think it would be an intrusion.

Runner, the round design was what the Eterra (that started all this) looked like, I went to a round shape for ergonomic reasons. Rick told me he saw the PD after he started doing round Zaps. Round just feels better.

 

[max]

get a myrtlezap because its even better!

Glad you like it but it's not better imo. The PD heat exchanger is a better design. And Aromazap doesn't have all RoHS compliant components. IMO the zaps will continue to ride the coat tails of the PD. The Aromazap had a poor reputation for years due to the soft wood used. It didn't hold up. The guy knew it and kept selling vapes that would eventually break down and fail. The only reason you've got a hardwood zap (and round) with a decent life expectancy is due to Tom. I'm sure zap sales will be helped by the PD being harder to get, but if it weren't for the PD, the Aromazap would still be a 2nd rate vape due to poor longevity, and except for the Myrtlezap, it still is. I'm surprised he's still offering the softwood version. The Myrtlewood is well worth the extra $20.

 

[stickstones]

that's a beautiful unit, madcap! Glad it performs well for you!

 

[lwien]

Yeah, madcap. I wasn't trying to rain on your parade here with your decision to go with the Zap. IT really is a nice looking piece and I have no doubt that it's a great vape. I was just taking issue with your statement that it was "better" than the PD.

 

[Madcap Laughed]

hehe, i tried to take a couple better quality ones!

if you rub it, its like warm 3d silk! and i need to pick up all my little alien dolls . i have not rubbed it with the flax seed yet, im going to let it burn-in for a few days first i wake and zaped a tenth of .01 gram of essential herb in it, gave of 4 hearty and thick warming clouds of vapor! i checked it, and it was still pretty green, so i just puffed and puffed and countinued getting nice tasty puffs over the course of 10 minutes before it had turned a light brown and was no longer giving out vapor. this was shared between me and my girl, and she couldnt believe all we had used was literally a tenth of 0.1. just looked like a few little specks! she still cant wrap herself around it!

 

[DeepFried]

Tom maybe to ease your inhibition of using myrtlewood you could sell myrtylewood PD's for a 5.00 premium and give Rick the 5.00 from every myrtlewood PD sold to kind of keep the peace.

 

[MrMistyTokes]

nice!!

how big is it? 4-5 inches tall?