KeroZen
Chronic vapaholic
First Impressions
Packaging is nice, on par with the other Chinese vapes I have. Thick printing, luxury finish box, faux velvet inside with a compartment hiding the charger, manual and accessories. It stinks like a new car, but perhaps less than my Ascent packaging.
The charger didn't come with a euro-plug nor any adapter (but I imagine the retail version surely will) No big deal because the charger is 110/240V switching, so you just need any cheap plug adapter and no converter box. Besides you can plug the device directly to any USB port on your computer.
The charger outputs 1.5A at 5V, and it kinda surprised me because on the side of the device one can read near the mini USB port "charge limitation 5V 1A". That made me wonder if the extra 0.5A was there just for safety or if it was there for extra power when using the device when charging. Reading the manual gave me the answer: you can indeed use the device while charging and that's a very good surprise! That and USB charging together, this is really nice.
The manual is quite substantial, a little 12 pages booklet color printed. English is not the best, but seeing how much I butcher Shakespeare's tongue myself, I'm not the one to complain!
In the accessory bag there's a metal brush (that is, metal handle and metal "hair"), a bunch of straight pipe cleaners, 3 spare bowl screens (possibly stainless steel) and a weird knife looking more like a woman nails file than anything else, dunno what this one is for...
So far so good, onto the beast itself now!
Design and Physical Build
The thing is small. It's the smallest of all my portables so far. I don't own either but I think only the Pax and MFLB come smaller than this. Here's a couple pictures for reference:
The body is I think made of aluminium, with a brushed finish and black coating. Angles are a bit sharp but the sides are beveled (so they are not 90° angles) It doesn't feel as good in the hand as my other portable vapes (FW2.1, Ascent, FM5S, FM8) but it's not that bad either.
It's a nice object and it's quite stealthy. When you look at it it's clear that it's a modern electronic device of some kind but you wouldn't imagine it's a vaporizer on first glance. The only thing that annoyed me was that it has "Herbstick" printed in white on its front panel, so I kinda vandalized the thing and took a black marker to make that less obvious! The first FM5 had a silly ganja leaf on the logo, thanksfully they removed that later on. Here I wish there was no herbstick logo as it's the only thing that could make someone ask questions.
Speaking of vandalizing the device, I first tried to remove that ugly looking false diamond below the screen as I hate anything bling-bling... well, don't do that! This thing is actually the multi-color indicator LED!
Having a single battery the vape is on the light side, a mere 122 grams (conversion to other units left to the reader) Form factor is nice, as I said earlier almost palmable and definitely pocketable. It's a nice looking object overall, well built, everything tight. I don't know how to gut it yet, but I'm sure we'll figure the way soon.
When I checked the mouthpiece I was a bit sceptical at first, then I re-read @mrweed's review and managed to pull it out, then the entire thing made a lot of sense to me!
Above you can see the entire retractable mouthpiece. It's spring-loaded. You draw from a small hole located on the left side of the picture, and the straw on the right side (which can be unscrewed for cleaning) goes inside the vape and plugs directly into another metal tube that runs the entire height of the device.
Cleaning the straw part should be easy, cleaning the mouth-piece on the other hand will be more difficult. I don't know what metal this is made of, I'd prefer if it was stainless steel rather than aluminium or any other plated metal. At least it smells pretty inert.
Here we can see a top down view of the device with mouthpiece removed. The black housing is plastic. Inside there is the top part of the metal tube and the spring-loading mechanism sitting around it. This part appears to be completely sealed but anyways seeing how the mouthpiece straw part mates with the metal tube, I don't think any air can be drawn from this area.
Seen from below we have the metal bowl, with fitted bowl screen, and the bottom of the metal tube. The bowl door is held by magnets when closed but also when opened if you stick it to the bottom of the device as pictured. The black housing is again plastic, and the door is the same shiny metal as the mouthpiece on one side, and plastic on the other. The bowl looks like stainless steel and is less shiny.
What I really like about this device so far is that it seems to have a no bullshit, no bad surprise vapor path! I don't know where fresh air enters but I imagine it's around the bowl door which is only loosely fitting, then it goes through the load, then to the metal tube upwards, and finally to the metal mouthpiece, and that's all! No funky plastic, no silicone, no exposed electronics components, that's worth a lof of points in my book!
That being said I could still detect some robot fart smell on the top plastic housing and around the bowl, so I'm going to thoroughly ISO clean it, and continue doing a few empty burn-ins just to be sure. Then hopefully I'll be able to test this little guy and see how it performs!
Ah and before I forget, another good point goes to the fact the screen displays the cell voltage while charging. As we discussed with @OF recently in the Ascent thread, it's best if you can stop charging before it reaches 4.2V per cell, as it can litterally double your battery life. Well here we got two good things: first you can stop charging at the voltage you want because it's displayed, and secondly during my initial charge I noticed it stopped charging reading 4.1V (exact figure to be confirmed) and not 4.2V, so they are not pushing the cell to get a few extra minutes worth of run-time and instead they chose to increase battery life by lowering the cutoff point, kudos for that!
Packaging is nice, on par with the other Chinese vapes I have. Thick printing, luxury finish box, faux velvet inside with a compartment hiding the charger, manual and accessories. It stinks like a new car, but perhaps less than my Ascent packaging.
The charger didn't come with a euro-plug nor any adapter (but I imagine the retail version surely will) No big deal because the charger is 110/240V switching, so you just need any cheap plug adapter and no converter box. Besides you can plug the device directly to any USB port on your computer.
The charger outputs 1.5A at 5V, and it kinda surprised me because on the side of the device one can read near the mini USB port "charge limitation 5V 1A". That made me wonder if the extra 0.5A was there just for safety or if it was there for extra power when using the device when charging. Reading the manual gave me the answer: you can indeed use the device while charging and that's a very good surprise! That and USB charging together, this is really nice.
The manual is quite substantial, a little 12 pages booklet color printed. English is not the best, but seeing how much I butcher Shakespeare's tongue myself, I'm not the one to complain!
In the accessory bag there's a metal brush (that is, metal handle and metal "hair"), a bunch of straight pipe cleaners, 3 spare bowl screens (possibly stainless steel) and a weird knife looking more like a woman nails file than anything else, dunno what this one is for...
So far so good, onto the beast itself now!
Design and Physical Build
The thing is small. It's the smallest of all my portables so far. I don't own either but I think only the Pax and MFLB come smaller than this. Here's a couple pictures for reference:
The body is I think made of aluminium, with a brushed finish and black coating. Angles are a bit sharp but the sides are beveled (so they are not 90° angles) It doesn't feel as good in the hand as my other portable vapes (FW2.1, Ascent, FM5S, FM8) but it's not that bad either.
It's a nice object and it's quite stealthy. When you look at it it's clear that it's a modern electronic device of some kind but you wouldn't imagine it's a vaporizer on first glance. The only thing that annoyed me was that it has "Herbstick" printed in white on its front panel, so I kinda vandalized the thing and took a black marker to make that less obvious! The first FM5 had a silly ganja leaf on the logo, thanksfully they removed that later on. Here I wish there was no herbstick logo as it's the only thing that could make someone ask questions.
Speaking of vandalizing the device, I first tried to remove that ugly looking false diamond below the screen as I hate anything bling-bling... well, don't do that! This thing is actually the multi-color indicator LED!
Having a single battery the vape is on the light side, a mere 122 grams (conversion to other units left to the reader) Form factor is nice, as I said earlier almost palmable and definitely pocketable. It's a nice looking object overall, well built, everything tight. I don't know how to gut it yet, but I'm sure we'll figure the way soon.
When I checked the mouthpiece I was a bit sceptical at first, then I re-read @mrweed's review and managed to pull it out, then the entire thing made a lot of sense to me!
Above you can see the entire retractable mouthpiece. It's spring-loaded. You draw from a small hole located on the left side of the picture, and the straw on the right side (which can be unscrewed for cleaning) goes inside the vape and plugs directly into another metal tube that runs the entire height of the device.
Cleaning the straw part should be easy, cleaning the mouth-piece on the other hand will be more difficult. I don't know what metal this is made of, I'd prefer if it was stainless steel rather than aluminium or any other plated metal. At least it smells pretty inert.
Here we can see a top down view of the device with mouthpiece removed. The black housing is plastic. Inside there is the top part of the metal tube and the spring-loading mechanism sitting around it. This part appears to be completely sealed but anyways seeing how the mouthpiece straw part mates with the metal tube, I don't think any air can be drawn from this area.
Seen from below we have the metal bowl, with fitted bowl screen, and the bottom of the metal tube. The bowl door is held by magnets when closed but also when opened if you stick it to the bottom of the device as pictured. The black housing is again plastic, and the door is the same shiny metal as the mouthpiece on one side, and plastic on the other. The bowl looks like stainless steel and is less shiny.
What I really like about this device so far is that it seems to have a no bullshit, no bad surprise vapor path! I don't know where fresh air enters but I imagine it's around the bowl door which is only loosely fitting, then it goes through the load, then to the metal tube upwards, and finally to the metal mouthpiece, and that's all! No funky plastic, no silicone, no exposed electronics components, that's worth a lof of points in my book!
That being said I could still detect some robot fart smell on the top plastic housing and around the bowl, so I'm going to thoroughly ISO clean it, and continue doing a few empty burn-ins just to be sure. Then hopefully I'll be able to test this little guy and see how it performs!
Ah and before I forget, another good point goes to the fact the screen displays the cell voltage while charging. As we discussed with @OF recently in the Ascent thread, it's best if you can stop charging before it reaches 4.2V per cell, as it can litterally double your battery life. Well here we got two good things: first you can stop charging at the voltage you want because it's displayed, and secondly during my initial charge I noticed it stopped charging reading 4.1V (exact figure to be confirmed) and not 4.2V, so they are not pushing the cell to get a few extra minutes worth of run-time and instead they chose to increase battery life by lowering the cutoff point, kudos for that!
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.... and the vibration.. just woke up my gf and she has to go to work early.. felt really crappy about that.... Soon i will contribute with a review too,first wanna test how this thing beheaves at party ,,i dont have full impressions on batterylife but i think it might be good.. anyway.. if it manages to vape 
.5 bowls x 0.5 i will be happy (i think it can swallow even more.. not joking but works with almost any ammout 
while affordable.
