It's arrival week for me! My Woody from VapoShop arrived on Monday, some spare party from DynaVap yesterday and a bocote Dynastash XL came today! I was dumb enough to make two separate orders - one in the first and one in the last minutes of 420 sale, so my main purchase - Omni XL is still missing and hasn't been shipped yet. Unfortunately in that order was also a XL condenser for building a Woody XLS. A beautifully matching cocobolo mouthpiece came already in the first package, that makes waiting time even harder. And of course I received the XL garage today (with a big scratch right in the middle of the magnet -argh!).
After owning a M'17 for about half a year this is my first encounter with a more premium model. And I have to be honest my first impressions very of mixed feelings.
First thing I noticed when I first held the Woody in my hands is how LIGHT it is compared to the M. I instantly weighted them - ~8g for the Woody and ~21,5g for the M. Well I'm sure this is no news for you.
I'm still quite impressed each time I pick it up.
Then I took a closer look at the Cocobolo stem. It seems that I had a little bit different expectation on how the wood would be. I thought it had a less rough, smoother finish than it actually has. Mine is full of small notches and cracks - nothing too deep though. Is that normal? Meanwhile I think it is and I just had wrong expectations. Well it most definitely is the nature of wood.
Also the ends at the steel crowns don't seem to be thread with too much care as they're still a bit rough.
What I do like are color and pattern of my unit! And the mouthpiece matches it very well, almost looks like it could have been from the same piece of wood. As I have looked through many pictures cocobolo seems to have a wide range of color variety - I prefer the brighter ones with a more reddish color.
The other small downside was that I was expecting - or better speaking hoping - that I'll receive a unit with the famous 4th gen tip as all the product pictures in their shop show exactly that tip. But as it's my first Ti one I wouldn't see the difference either.
In terms of usage I find the Woody to be a little better and more convenient overall. I've only used it two days for now but I dare to say that it'll replace the M easily. Specially in terms of taste it's superior. I really like the light wooden taste that comes from the stem. I'm just a bit concerned that the wood will eventually soak of taste and smell from all the vapor going through it. It's not as easy to clean as steel.
I also prefer the less heating time and faster cool down of the Ti tip. I'm so afraid of dropping it! It looks a little fragile! This will be my home unit for sure.
All in all I'm quite satisfied with my new Woody Ti cocobolo. And I'm really looking forward to trying the omni XL and the Woody with mouthpiece!
BTW how do I treat the Woody? Should I just give it a rub with Dynawax? Won't the wax stick into all the scratches and notches? Or isn't that a problem?