@herbivore21
Thanks! Wow, I'm looking forward to that coming out!
No worries bro, sadly it will be a long time before they are available to public. Manufacturing process is long (3 months from start of manufacturing to delivery to dnail for QC) with an inescapable failure rate of a certain number of each batch (sapphire must be grown inside a mold and if it grows unevenly, it will break, obviously failing QC). These facts plus the fact that this is manufacturing really only otherwise used in aerospace (sapphire is the glass of choice in space, when polished properly it is clear like glass but super heat resistant and much stronger) make the product very expensive, prohibitively so for most atm.
Still, eventually some revolution in manufacturing/design will bring these to the public.
The have been whispers of desire for the saphire dish s ever since the insert had such success but the whispers have also been those of mourning and lament when regarding the possible insurmountable cost to purchase a dish of material that cost so much to manufacture. ...and distribution as well as the profit that would be only logical to be added, dnail is a business not charitable organization... is there any information regarding final purchase price range you can share with the waiting public... I dont expect you to know specivic number but a indicative rangel would alow me to decide whether to even bother dreaming of owning one or whether it would be more emotionallyrics healthyou to pretend like the thing don't exist
Yup, this is all true as I said above. Last round of beta sapphire halos was $300 usd. This has very little profit in the price for dnail (par for the course, beta testers get the beta items they test cheaper than retail).
Since sapphire halos being released to public will probably necessitate some new development in manufacturing, this may not be indicative of final price if/when it finally becomes available to public (such a revolution would make them cheaper to produce).
There are no current plans that I know of for the sapphire halo to be made available to public.
Not when you hear the price. I'm guessing over $300 for just a dish.
At current manufacturing technologies, I'd expect considerably beyond $300 usd retail for the dish. Still, I would imagine something like what you are saying or maybe less if some new development takes place. This is all pie in the sky talk though, there are no current plans for sapphire to be released to public AFAIK. Remember too that PB have long made quartz that is more expensive than this though, so it is relative
lol I forgot to mention, dnail looked recently at doing a run of platinum halos lately, those suckers were gonna run > $5000 USD just for a dish!!!!! It definitely is relative lol
That does seem a bit steep, though I understand the price. I guess my only concern would be it's durability! I haven't studied how strong it is, how long it will last, or how easily I could break it. Before I consider a purchase I would have to do some serious studying! If it was durable and offered an even better (by a decent amount) experience than the SiC, I would seriously consider saving for it after I get a third dab rig in the future!
Sapphire is not more durable than SiC, it is more durable than quartz though! I had a nasty spill with a beta slim series base (first run of 14/18 composite for male gong joints were too short on the 18mm male part and fell off rigs when hot!!!). My sapphire sadly cracked after it's 4ft drop onto hard tiles, but was still in one single piece and completely usable. When I dropped one of my high end PB quartz nails from the same height in almost the exact same way, it shattered everywhere!
Sapphire halos however taste SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO much better than SiC and quartz halos. There is just no comparison. It is another league and to my mind, a true next-gen nail. Similar taste can be achieved on quartz at very, very low temps but you get such waste of dabs that this is not worth it, and even when you do get close there is still a noticable flavor deficit in quartz vs sapphire.
Sapphire is twice as conductive as quartz, less conductive than SiC but tastes much better at much higher temps than SiC.
Hope this gives some idea of the differences, I could go on and on!
It's expensive for a nail but given the cost of other extract accessories it's actually not too bad but probably too much for most people.
Agreed man, there have been more expensive extract accessories for ages. Hell, look at those swing top mothership quartz torch only nails ffs, at that price we could get 2 sapphire halos haha
Still, no shame in saying that $300 odd is more than one is able/prepared to spend on a dab accessory! Definitely a lot of cashish!
Very fragile in comparison. But ultimate in purity...for now. I'd love to try it.
Actually, I would call glass very fragile in comparison to SiC, I would call quartz quite fragile in comparison and I would call sapphire somewhat fragile in comparison if that helps give an idea of things
I wouldn't even want platinum anything. Tacky
Many helped me here when I was first introduced to concentrates, it is nice to be able to pay it forward when I can