I received my beech/white tubo today, and first impressions are that IT FUCKING RIPS.
I just ran a bowl of delicious sun grown Grape Ape through it, starting at 380F and ending at 420F.
I started off with a little bit of herb tightly tamped in the stem, fired it up and lightly inhaled at 380F, and.. was kinda underwhelmed. Scratched my head a little, tapped it back out, and then filled the stem with herb, no tamp at all. Put the long stem back in, gave it a fairly vigorous inhale, and it rewarded me with a really tasty and highly visible cloud of vapor. Then it did it again. And again. Took out the stem, gave it a stir with the cool little stirry-stick-thingy, raised the temp to 400F, and did another three hits. Repeated the cycle for another 3 hits at 420F, and then tapped out very evenly extracted ABV. Battery dropped from 96% to 67% over this bowl.
I ordered pretty much everything I was allowed to, so I have a long stem, short stem, and GonG adapter, along with the whip (and I got some extra screens because extra screens). All the glass looks nicely made and mates with other 18mm stuff just fine. The wooden case for this guy is so much nicer than I was expecting, in fact presentation on all levels is Really Fucking Nice. The entire package shipped in the newly-repurposed box the mod originally came in, but other than that everything feels like it belongs together. It comes with actual printed instructions, even!
I don't yet know how this device holds up in the long term, but if it's reliable i kinda think it might be the one i start recommending to people.
Full disclosure: I've been talking to the creator on FC chat for like two years or something and think he's a pretty good dude. That said, I paid for this and I'm enough of a dick that if I didn't like something about it I'd have no problem saying so.
Jim-bob sez check it out.