Thanks! As much as I love the dynaverse, and as beautiful and functional as Ed’s pieces are, it seemed like a no-brainer.
I got the thuya burl. I’ll try to figure out how to post a picture.
So a (probably stupid) question of usage. Just tried with a tiny amount, maybe 1/3-1/2 of a vapcap, isn’t the glass wand at heat levels 6-9. The ABV doesn’t look...V’d lol. The taste was great, but it’s still bright green, and I couldn’t blow out any vapor. I tried maybe 10 draws. When I use the vapcaps by themselves with a torch or IH the ABV gets progressively darker and darker.
Do I not have enough in there so air is going around the side, or am I drawing too fast, or is there a trick?
I definitely feel a little medicated, so I was getting something...
I very recently got a burl log too. I don't know much about these things so realize that when you read anything I have to say on the subject.
My first few stems with my new log were a disappointment. I thought, "man I get much better results from a torch". I watched videos and saw comments that people were hovering around 7 on the dial and getting fat tasty clouds. I kept working with it. It seemed like I could get some nice rips at 9 but that didn't seem right compared to everyone else. Even then I'd get one nice stem and then if I try to do another right after it was back to wispy or no vapor. I had the barely extracted green to light brown ABV. I was feeling a head change but it definitely wasn't what I was expecting or viewing on line.
The next day I started the thing in the morning and didn't try until it had been on for an hour and half. Hmm was still needing to be around 9 and getting great hits followed by so-so to non existent. I started to wonder if there was a short because I could feel the heat in the draw for one stem and the next not.
Three days in and I was trying to decide whether to write Ed and see if there was some tuning I should do. I bought a infrared thermometer because I just knew it was heating up and cooling down. I wanted to be able to give ED any data he might need. I thought I had discovered if use the aromatherapy cup for 1/2 hour or so and then do a stem and I could swear it was working great after that.
SO full disclosure, I am not mechanically inclined at all. Pops didn't spend much time with me growing up and I haven't bothered to learn these things on my own. My home repair attempts throughout the years are stories told over and over again at the Thanksgiving table to the delight of all around, except me of course. When it comes to this stuff I'm about as useful as tits on a bull. So it is no surprise I started to reason that the aromatherapy cup was doing something.
Then for reasons I do not know on the fourth day it started working like a beast and has ever since. I tend to warm mine up for about an hour. Have it set at about 7.5. It works great. The vapor is the tastiest of all my devices. I can get a huge hit if I want. It can almost get too hot at that setting. It is superior to using a torch on the vapcaps. I don't know why it took 4 days to go from working so-so to being the greatest thing since sliced bread. I live in a very different climate than ED maybe has a small part to do with it? I can't help wondering if a few days from now your just kicks in like a mother fucker too.
The really good thing you are doing, that I just couldn't seem to figure out to do, is asking for help on the first day.
. The good news though is it's pretty easy to make your own cable, send me a PM and I can give you all the details on how to do it.
More pics in the 