So I got my new red Vaporblunt and have had enough time to get some small idea of its strengths and weaknesses. I hope this review won't seem long winded to you. Great thanks to TherealVaporBlunt for hooking up this piece for review.
Packaging: The packaging of the product is very nice and professional, a black box with red lettering Accessories are slim, including two tips, a cleaning brush, a little multitool, and a small fold-out instruction manual which is very useful for the operation of the unit, but a fuller instruction manual would be nice. I think an inexpensive plastic or metal grinder should maybe be included at this price point for people who would otherwise be without.
Apparent build quality: Medium. The Vaporblunt main body is made out of sturdy-feeling plastic, consisting of two halves joined down the middle. There was some discussion about these halves being glued together, and if you get the seam under a bright light I can kind of see why, as the way the two halves aligns is not 100% perfect and it can kind of give the appearance of maybe being glued together. I assume they're held together by unseen screws or some kind of pressure fit. The power button and the collar it is housed on are of slightly flimsier-feeling plastic, by no means alarmingly so, just notably. The body of the stir knob is also of this same plastic. The stir knob is of acceptable build quality and does an excellent job at its task in my limited experience. The whole unit has a nice feel and weight when you're holding it and passing it around.
Heat up time: Very fast, about a minute, roughly 90 seconds to the Boost mode. If you have it in standard mode for a while and then set it to boost, it will only take about 7 or 8 seconds to get there.
Able to be hooked to glass: Yes. A inch long piece of DBV tubing will slip halfway over the mouthpiece, and the other half will fit in a 14mm female.
Taste: Decent at this point. I allowed the unit a burn-in time of about 30 minutes in boost mode, during which time I noticed a faint but noticeable smell of slightly-sweet fish. Certainly better than a Solo robot-fart, but there. This diminished mostly over time and is now only slightly noticeable.
Performance: Very good for a primarily-conduction vaporizer, roundabout average when compared to some other convection based designs. Some others have observed that big, lung busting hits can be difficult to achieve, and this is true so far for me. You need to draw the Vaporblunt with a very slow rate, or use microhitting, to get the most out of it. The boost mode makes this more forgiving, and in a "newbie test," I hit the VB as hard as I could when it was in boost mode for about 10 seconds, and still got a nice little puff of vapor, so it's clear the temp retention could keep up enough to not make it stop. The learning curve is definitely more gentle than a MFLB, and there is virtually no chance of combustion it seems. When hooked up to a waterpipe, the boost mode can produce say... 2% fat milk. Not skim, not 1%, but 2% milk, while definitely not approaching a vapor density I would call "very dense." Again, a huge and sudden inhalation was unable to stop the VB from producing some vapor, and it seemed to recover very quickly.
Consistency of ABV: Very high so far. The stir knob has done a great job with the fine-very fine grind I was using, and there is no hot spotting. I find this to be as interesting as it is impressive. If this was my only vape, I would almost always choose to ramp bowls up to Boost mode to get a darker ABV.
Concentrate Usage: Limited. Dropping solid concentrates right in would probably gum up a mesh that covers up the air path up to the mouthpiece. Placing it on the wall of the bowl was messy and kind of lack luster in its result. Liquids and oil soaked onto cotton or another medium might work, but I can't say.
Those are some of my impressions so far, and I'm happy to answer any questions anyone has, and will also most likely add more thoughts in the future, maybe even a video.
Edited to include concentrate section.