Ok, I'll try to keep it concise, but I know I'll be rambling and giving all my thoughts, I feel like I've had a decent amount of time with it, it's all I've been using the last day+ other than my Omicron when I went out.... TLDR
The Sticky Brick is awesome, you all should buy one
The brick itself is beautiful, awesome craftsmanship, solid, feels great in hand! My preferred setup is short side in the brick, and with the Intake at Noon, the mouthpiece is facing 5 o clock. This is nice cause I always light with my right hand, keeps it further away from me, good setup!
The glass as mentioned is thick as fuck. Like really really thick. I was so worried when it slipped but it looks like nothing happened at all. You can feel the heft in it. This is awesome!
Also, I have big clunky fingers
O rings on things always annoy the piss out of me. You get them in the slot, and then when you push it through whatever it just falls out the groove....more a personal problem
it happens all time when reassembling my Vapcap or AC, but I really appreacite the big thick o Rings, and I ALSO LOVE the fact that you made the tops on all your holes bigger than whats going in, with a resting ledge for the O ring. Made reassembling a breeze.
My first session, I took it apart and looked down the shoots, used a paper clip cause I could see a bit of rough wood hanging around, kicked that out. First few sessions did see little embers inside, figured this was that rough wood just getting a little burnt or cleared out, didn't affect the taste at all really, BUT I think I am one of those people with a sensitive pallet. You can get nice tasty low temp hits on this, and you can definitely taste the differences in strains, but its mixed with the taste of wood/vapor resin on wood. I find this taste in damn near all my wooden things, between stems and the vapman. I even can kind of residual taste it I feel sometimes just from the hot air of my logs on other stems......this isn't a bad thing to me, I find the smell/taste/aroma of wood to be very pleasant. But it should be noted. I also find it more after id combust in it, that it makes it that woody/weed taste more, as my first few sessions were really tasteful but heavily mixed with Walnut. Like I said, I have a great nose and probably an over sensitive pallet in that regard, I can definitely taste strain differences between that woody taste, but I notice the same taste I get on my Vapman kinda. Hard to describe, I'm a few SB's in
Just for me, I can get good low temp hits on it, and they taste great and like tree, and I can get good high temp hits on it, and they taste great and like tree, but I always notice the wood as well, but I love it and also expected it.
I like the torch that came with it alot! But, my ronson butane won't fill it up? Think the nozzle is wrong. Will buy some Bernzomatic somewhere.
That said, I like my Ronson heatgun on low the most. I think I also overtorched because it was harder for me to tell the temp with the smaller lighter. The heatgun on low, is still pretty fucking hot. But, I can breath slower or faster or pull away etc and just harness that heat easier because I know its fucking hot. Was able to go high temp and low temp with it IMO. It's my preferred torch with the Lotus too for that reason.
The AVB looks pure convection golden nothing too too black, haven't been able to get it to a coffee dark but color is not indicative of anything really. When I had the screen up higher, hot spots (char) were an issue kind of, not so with it resting on the bottom. And yeah, I wasn't sure where the screen was supposed to go...I have a lip like a centimeter in the bowl that looks like a screen could feasibly rest in it (and the screen kinda was already there), so I tried it there, then halfway lower, then very bottom. Have it now on the very bottom
I throw a pinch or two in. I like the big bowl, just hard to see, love the tweezers for that! And to stir!
This was my second use of the Ronson Torch, got another 2-3 hits out of it!
I'm dainty with it, don't want to get heavy handed
Very much love this thing! Gonna keep using it!! Cheers Brick Squad!
Oh shit, I totally forgot, this thing is such a fast vape , in terms of going from 0-extraction, and I love it alot for that! When I go butane, that's what I'm looking for, I find most all of them can't really do it (the Vapcap heats up quick but I always get quite a few cycles)
Edit: with regards to taste, I'm using Sour Lemon right now, first two hits actually tasted nothing like wood at all lol, idk? Maybe the buds I were using earlier just had a more woody taste with em. I'm milking it up thick too
By the way, love the logo, think it looks slick, also love that mine doesn't have one