Ok, so I have been using this thing on the daily for a few weeks(since I got it) and I just cant put this thing down.
The flavor that it produces for such large hits is really amazing, with this I feel like I am hitting a bong with fire, but it tastes great with such smooth and milky vapor, its unreal.
I really just cant stop hitting it, its so effective in the way that it vapes, its not the most efficient, but I dont see a large amount of waste, its just very easy for me to keep hitting and I do end up going through more herb this way, but thats more my personal habits and partially why I chose this vaporizer, for the satisfaction from these large bong like hits, and by no means do I consider it a waste to see large clouds from this vaporizer, thats what its made for after all, having said that you can tell by now that it does its job very well!
I havent even been that careful with it besides my glass and with the torch. for instance, I bang it around quite a bit, since I found I need to in order to get all of the herb out from the end, and I do flip it over and tap each side between hits to stir it up a bit, but I have not found this necessary, just another a habit of mine.
Only problems I have had have been heating it up too hot, which would be my own fault for not paying close enough attention to the readout, and scorching the edge of the wood block, which would also be my fault for not having the right aim sometimes. Neither of these things have damaged the function at all.
The new screen design, though I have not tried out the old one, seems to work quite well. I have not seen any real noticeable bits of plant matter in my water, only very tiny tiny particles that I saw in the water at a certain angle, I was surprised I could even see it with the naked eye!
I start most loads at around 280 on the dial give or take a little, and gradually increase by about 10 degrees each heat up until maybe 320, by which point the bowl is almost finished, and I empty the bud out, crush it, reload it and get one or two more decent hits and at that point it is done, and is a very thoroughly even brown color.
After I empty a finished bowl, I tap both sides of the wood body to get the last pieces out, and blow through the opening on the aluminum block(when its cool, duh!) to get the last of it out of the unit, then I brush away bits that have stuck to the orange silicon gasket and the screen and around the screen, and I often then blow into each end of the stem/screen, but blowing through it I notice doesnt get much of anything out, its mostly the brushing, with the way that the edges of the screen are shaped, it needs to be brushed to keep away the gunk, and you should not let it cool for too long or the herb will become dry and crispy and will be stuck in the screen and will be much harder to just brush away.
not really sure if I want to call this a review, anyway just my thoughts on it all and the way I use it.