Hi everyone!
This is my first post on FC!
I've been developing a vaporiser over the past couple of months, somewhat on the downlow from the wider vaporiser community... Only ever posted in r/ausents, which is an Aussie cannabis subreddit.
I've had a heap of people ask about if there are VerdaVap threads on FC... So they've forced me to come over here and make this post
So what the hell am I talking about? There are some Pictures here.
The VerdaVap is minimalistic by design, if it's there, it serves a purpose, else not
It's designed with the bong smoker in mind. For years I've read threads in vaporents and other forums about people wanting to quit smoking bongs to jump over to vaporising, then they buy a vaporiser from the head shop down the road, it's a shitty conduction vape and inevitably let's them down, then forever "vaping" is thrown in the shit bucket for them. Or they'll do the research, realise they should have brought a ball vape, then they see the price of a ball vape and just can't justify the price. This is especially a big issue over here in Australia. There really isn't many options for ball vapes over here yet, and they're bloody expensive. The idea is to have an accessible "portable" ball vape. Portable as in take it camping, not on a walk to the shops
It's definitely not perfect, but it's mine, and I'm beyond excited about it. I have had amazing feedback from the ausents community, and we have revised the design to what you can see now, as pictured on the website.
The design will be revised until the community is happy.
Let's break the VerdaVap down, so you understand what does what. Reference image here
1. Top part - thermal mass (80x3mm corundum beads)
2. Vapor chamber, holds a smidge over 0.2g loose pack. The volume of the vapor chamber is about 15% larger than the mighty, as a point of reference most will understand.
3. Native 14mm adapter. This is what you thread the vapor chamber onto, and will be made out of 304 stainless steel. You can see, the vapor path is all metallic.
4. Hand turned stabilised wood 14mm water pipe adapter. Stabilising wood is a tedious process that involves heat treating, resin, vacuum chambers, and about a week of time... but it eliminates and issues wood pieces can have with expansion and contraction with varying heat and humidity. If you have a nice wooden pen, or a chef knife with a wooden handle, it will be stabilised wood.
5. 4mm stainless steel handle rod, threaded into the 14mm adapter body.
6. Hand turned stabilised wood handle.
7. Custom compression filter, here is a pic of the laser cut filter.
This entire thing started at the end of October last year... I was tinkering in the garage and wanted to try build a ball vape myself because I didn't want to spend $500+ on one
Built one over a weekend, posted a video on ausents and people were asking if I would make them one.... And it just all started from that!
Here is a more recent video showing the 3D printed mock up, and testing out the prototype.
I've got a discord also, as requested.
I've ordered samples from multiple manufacturers, once they have landed (couple weeks), and I'm happy with them I'm going to open up presales on a batch of 100 to test the waters and see if people are keen.
Let me know what you think!
This is my first post on FC!
I've been developing a vaporiser over the past couple of months, somewhat on the downlow from the wider vaporiser community... Only ever posted in r/ausents, which is an Aussie cannabis subreddit.
I've had a heap of people ask about if there are VerdaVap threads on FC... So they've forced me to come over here and make this post
So what the hell am I talking about? There are some Pictures here.
The VerdaVap is minimalistic by design, if it's there, it serves a purpose, else not
It's designed with the bong smoker in mind. For years I've read threads in vaporents and other forums about people wanting to quit smoking bongs to jump over to vaporising, then they buy a vaporiser from the head shop down the road, it's a shitty conduction vape and inevitably let's them down, then forever "vaping" is thrown in the shit bucket for them. Or they'll do the research, realise they should have brought a ball vape, then they see the price of a ball vape and just can't justify the price. This is especially a big issue over here in Australia. There really isn't many options for ball vapes over here yet, and they're bloody expensive. The idea is to have an accessible "portable" ball vape. Portable as in take it camping, not on a walk to the shops
It's definitely not perfect, but it's mine, and I'm beyond excited about it. I have had amazing feedback from the ausents community, and we have revised the design to what you can see now, as pictured on the website.
The design will be revised until the community is happy.
Let's break the VerdaVap down, so you understand what does what. Reference image here
1. Top part - thermal mass (80x3mm corundum beads)
2. Vapor chamber, holds a smidge over 0.2g loose pack. The volume of the vapor chamber is about 15% larger than the mighty, as a point of reference most will understand.
3. Native 14mm adapter. This is what you thread the vapor chamber onto, and will be made out of 304 stainless steel. You can see, the vapor path is all metallic.
4. Hand turned stabilised wood 14mm water pipe adapter. Stabilising wood is a tedious process that involves heat treating, resin, vacuum chambers, and about a week of time... but it eliminates and issues wood pieces can have with expansion and contraction with varying heat and humidity. If you have a nice wooden pen, or a chef knife with a wooden handle, it will be stabilised wood.
5. 4mm stainless steel handle rod, threaded into the 14mm adapter body.
6. Hand turned stabilised wood handle.
7. Custom compression filter, here is a pic of the laser cut filter.
This entire thing started at the end of October last year... I was tinkering in the garage and wanted to try build a ball vape myself because I didn't want to spend $500+ on one
Built one over a weekend, posted a video on ausents and people were asking if I would make them one.... And it just all started from that!
Here is a more recent video showing the 3D printed mock up, and testing out the prototype.
I've got a discord also, as requested.
I've ordered samples from multiple manufacturers, once they have landed (couple weeks), and I'm happy with them I'm going to open up presales on a batch of 100 to test the waters and see if people are keen.
Let me know what you think!
AUSSIE, AUSSIE, AUSSIE! 
to get my hands on one of these beauties! 
it looks like it’s gonna be bloody amazing mate! 
even if the end result looked just like the prototype.
I’m a motor mouth! Hahahaha