Thanks so much for giving us a chance!!
For your usage style it should be perfect, the ZX works well for larger amounts (especially with the glass bowl, there's room for up to ~.25g) but the zirconia chamber in particular excels at quick one hit snaps.
Black insulating handles for the ZX bowls will be in Saturday, so any orders with zirconia bowls/chambers will ship out as soon as those arrive. At that point everything on the site will be 100% in stock and ready for immediate shipment so that's exciting!
A quick note on the ZX bowl I want to mention as I was telling a customer about this in an email yesterday.
The diameter of the herb chamber in the zirconia bowl is the same as the diameter of the heater inlet and outlet, so with the complete zirconia ZX combo you effectively get the full air coverage of a diffuser, but with the more sturdy seal and minimized conduction of an injector/tapered joint.
Yeah the bowl actually costs more to make than the heater as it's a more complex design since it features both internal and external tapers. I didn't want to scare people away with the price of the bowl as I know people aren't used to it, and like all of my stuff technically it's probably priced lower than it should be, but the chamber is an integral component of the vaporization experience, especially with convection, so it is important to really do it right.
I see others selling titanium bowls for $60+ so hopefully people will see the value in the tailored experience and the glass-like purity from my offerings. Titanium and stainless steel is a considerably more affordable material to machine in comparison, as zirconia is much harder and denser, thus can
only be ground with diamond tooling.
Can't wait to hear what you think of the matching ZX bowl, so far it seems like everybody is really digging it which is so awesome to see!
Me too, it's pretty wild really - and my first seven versions of these ruby ball vape designs were 18MM so I'm intimately familiar with the bigger setups.
If I had to make a guess, what I believe happens with the larger setups that hold more herb, is you end up just loading more, and ultimately vaping more of the same compounds you already have a tolerance too, which just drives that tolerance up higher, and the net effect is not really getting more stoned.
With the ZX the idea is to get a more complete extraction in less inhalations, and ideally a wider spectrum of active compounds. When you load more herb there's now more resin in the bowl available for evaporation which increases the residence time of the extraction. Once you start factoring in saturation points and fractionation you can see some potential issues in achieving the ideal extraction.
The idea behind fractionation is that every time you do a hit, you're effectively skimming some of the therapeutic molecules off the top end that are lost to condensation. We want to minimize that to get as wide of a "bandwidth" as possible, and so the ZX is largely based around some of my observations and theories developed from being a part of this scene for the last decade.
I have like 50 zirconia bowls left so you should be good! I can always set one aside for ya, I appreciate you helping spread the good word ever since I did the Z8 last November (crazy it's been almost a year now)
Dang I'm surprised you got it so quickly, super stoked to hear that you're enjoying it so far and that it's working as planned to obliterate those one hitters!!
The glass sheath and handle is really clever and cool too, I dig it dude!! The fact you made that yourself is even cooler, awesome job my friend and thanks so much for sharing!
As I'm rather minimalist with my gear these days I still don't even have a handle on my coil, so the lightweight and tiny profile makes it easy to maneuver around and not flop around on the end of the coil. PHASE3 products are definitely designed for people and by people who actually vape!!
I still want to do a coil handle though, it's on my to-do list along with a different stand.
I should check a quote on my latest stand design and see where that's coming in at, I could run a pre-order for those if you guys like it!
The ZX definitely still rips with 14MM glass as well as gives you a great high definition viewing experience!
I'm really delighted to see that everybody seems to be liking the matching zirconia bowl so far too. No matter how you slice it the ZX is gonna crush
the main benefit of the matching ZX bowl is the durability, some people go through glass easily and so I really wanted to offer something that would retain that same type of pure experience but that could also take some abuse, as for about the price of two glass bowls you can pretty much have a rock solid zirconia option.
Side note, would anybody be interested in a zirconia bowl that's more like the size of my glass bowls?
The current ZX bowl was definitely optimized for an extremely low profile and with an emphasis on fast one hit extraction, but I could possibly make a larger bowl in the same material if there's any interest there.
Thanks everybody for the dialog, loving the vibe in here and really grateful to all of you putting your trust in my work. I hope everyone is gearing up for a nice relaxing Friday and getting ready for a terpene filled weekend!
As always reach out if I can be of any direct assistance and drop me an email for anything really important.
Cheers to you, Z-Tribe!
your friendly neighborhood phase change experts
can't wait for my little beast to land!
