I bought a bong once. It turned out to be a piece of crap - not surprising given that it was being sold by someone belonging to a religion that thinks we are all decadent evil drug abusers, regardless of whether or not we are "medical". The guy in the shop didn't know anything at all about his stock (why would he, he was a godly person who doesn't do ebilebildrugs). Some random teenager - and I don't mean 19, I mean he CLAIMED 16 and I bet he was 15 - was trying to help me.
I've not tried again since. Local glass is stupid expensive, I still don't know anything about bongs, and I can't get Chinese glass because it comes in the mail and I can't get mail. I need it to come to my door. And I'd probably buy the wrong thing anyway. Plus I don't know how to use it.
My Hawaiian Koa is on coating 3 of the mineral oil. She is still drinking it up. I don't know why, must be something about Koa. It has not been neglected, its barely been used, and none of my other vape bodies - not even the old air core body (now a stem caddy) that's been languishing unused in the dry desert air here for like 3 or 4 years - are this thirsty. I think I'll be mineral-oiling it for some time yet, then I'll hit it with the beeswax mix. My SC2 was Tiger Vaple, my air core was Wild Vaple, I think the Alpha may be Wild Vaple as well. None of the 3 maple bodies are particularly dried out, not even the air core. The Alpha, in fact, what ever sort of Vaple she is, still feels satiny-smooth (silk is too insubstantial for the way this feels in my hand).
But that beautiful beautiful Koa has a drinking problem LOL!
I've coated the SC2 Tiger Vaple, that showed a color change from top to bottom due to the beeswax mix soaking in more up top where the body heats up, its on its 2nd coat now (takes a lot longer for it to soak in, obviously its is either not as dry or not as demanding as the Koa) and the color change is much more muted. Another couple coats and *I* may not be able to tell it was ever unbalanced. The old air core body that is now a stem caddy is soaking the oil up very evenly but then when it was in use the body heated up more evenly with those original air cores than they do now, so I don't think it ever got out of balance due to that issue. It's only had one coat so far, and its the one body that has gone without maintenance the longest. I guess I did a better job with it than its successor.
I've wiped small amounts of mineral oil on the Alpha body but I haven't made a concerted effort there, since it is IN USE pretty much 24/7 at the moment. The only place that seemed like it needed some extra help was the inside wall around the lip down to where the heater core ring is. I've swiped a fair amount of mineral oil in just on those spots and it has soaked that up well and the wood feels much better there.
I think I'll do another coat on the Koa, #4. When that has largely soaked in (whenever that is), I'll buff off any excess oil (but no waxing yet) and use it for a couple of days - still trying to learn to love it in practice and not just for its lovely lovely looks. I'll do a coat of mineral oil on the Alpha then and we'll see how thirsty it is. I'm guessing "not very". But I would like to give it at least one coat of the mineral oil all over before I do another waxing.
I am actually starting to think about maybe using the Koa permanently to feed a bong. That I can't afford to buy locally, can't get in the mail, don't know how to select, and no idea how to use it properly either LOL!
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