Had my first session using the half bowl. Heated it on the bottom oven ring and got a really tasty and large hit. Checked the avb and still saw plenty of green flower. So I let the vape cool down on the magnet for 3 minutes or so before going back outside for another heat cycle. This time I heated at the thermal battery and kept the vape slightly further back so that the tip of the inner flame was maybe 1/4 inch or so away from the actual metal. Got a pretty decent sized cleanup hit from this but flavor was obviously not the same lol. I checked the avb and it was a light brown I'd say with some small bits of green. I did this all with a dry j-hook btw and at half-open airflow. Overall, Pretty damn good vapor from that small amount of flower. Also, the case has worked great so far, only thing that got me is the cap wanting to roll off my table lol.
The high itself is still happening as I type this lol. I usually session my vapcap and Enano for DDs (V3 Pro on occassion). So I will take a similiar amount of flower to the half chamber Anvil and split it into 3-5 hits or so, in this case I vaped it in 2 hits lol (mainly in first though). The signature itself is unique to what I usually do in that I felt completely sober after vaping the Anvil, I was feeling underwhelmed and was disappointed. Then after 5 minutes or so it just started shooting me up rapidly lol. The onset is just so unique comparatively to my usual vaping style of using small amounts for a 5-10 minute session basically. The high itself made me compelled to write this I guess lol. I planned on watching some Wilfred but here I am writing instead. I'll say that it feels more convection leaning in taste and effects for me. I don't know if I'd have enough awareness to be able to tell if high is more of a hybrid or convection tbh. But I can say that I feel a high more similar to my Enano than my Vapcap. I have been using the same sativa strain for the last week between my other vapes and using that same strain tonight has given me a high closer to my convection vapes. Now the flaw in this though is my roast was a tad lighter in this vape than my Enano and Vapcap, so maybe that is also part of the reason for the current high I'm feeling.
That's really all I can say for now, I probably have to use this more over time to give a more detailed review of the vape in general.
I debated on waiting to write something afterwords but I plan on vaping again in an hour or 2 and may report on that experience too. After that, I'll maybe report back a few weeks later when I'm less of a noob lol.
Also, I came here to ask for suggestions on getting a darker roast. I am going to try to go darker on my next session but am unsure of what I should adjust. I'm using the smallest flame on my eagle torch lighter and it's pretty large imo lol. So I'm thinking most likely I shouldn't be bringing up the flame size (but obviously would be willing to adjust it if need be). I am partly basing this off the videos I've seen as well. So instead, maybe I could move my inner flame closer or further away from the metal? Any suggestions on how to adjust heat maybe on that or what I should try to get a darker roast? Not saying mine was necessarily light because it was mostly a light brown but I would like to get it closer to that riding the line dark brown lol. I'm also willing to pull out a stop watch and start using time specifically to figure things out, but I thought I'd ask for suggestions outside of aiming for timing for now just to see if I can find out a good technique without using a stop watch. I'd love to say that I want to explore this because of my ingenuity, but honestly my laziness is leading the charge here lol. Overall, really liking this first experience with it, but also am wanting to get some more practice in to help refine my technique and well.... to get high lol.
Update, did 2nd bowl with airflow half open and put lighter on the thermal battery and hit it twice like earlier. Was left with avb that was light brown or maybe a bit darker. Avb was more even than my first bowl and I didn't have specs of green/yellow. The high hit hard and fast this second time around. I think my first heatup was different this time in the sense that I cleared the whole heat-up cycle in one hit vs two hits like earlier. I still want to darken the avb more but the effects are really solid with this thing.