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    Anyone ever used Hangsen concentrates? Can you even call that DIYing?

    I just mixed up a few 6ml bottles of different Hangsen tobacco flavours: Ken/Kent Rothmen/Rothman Dun-hill (sometimes called Deluxe, I believe) And 10ml bottle of Peter Stuyvesant/Peter/Pete Stuyv, which I had tasted in ready mixed before and knew I liked. The recommendation is to use...
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    Finetuning my next blend

    I made a juice a few days ago, detailed here, and now I want to perfect it. This first blend I dubbed "Impro" for "Improvisation", as that was exactly what it was. Basically it consist of 15% my own tobacco extraction 85% PG/VG (can't remember exact ratio, should be between 65/35 and...
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    Has anyone else went through a tastebud crisis?

    I feel like ever since I started vaping (December, so not that long ago) I am in a continual taste-crisis. Though not so much taste-bud crisis, but olfactory crisis - and that affects taste too. I used to half-jokingly said that I smoked so much because I have an over-active sense of smell. Now...
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    ML per ML mixing

    You are still not getting it: All dropper/liquid combinations are DIFFERENT. The first thing I did when I got my first stuff was measure how many drops in a ml of PG, VG, water and PGA - all with the same simple pipette. I got results ranging from 25 to 44. And decided that I would only...
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    Vinegar?

    I'm not sure it is as simple as getting the right pH. I'm not in any way certain of this, but I think human senses do not accurately sense pH*. So even if you measured the most perfect juice you've ever vaped for pH and then set out to recreate that pH in _another juice_, the result might...
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    Vinegar?

    Yep, that was sort of my point - the results you get from your testing with the acids in PG/VG* will only tell you at what point it goes over the threshold for balancing the inherent sweetness of PG, VG or whatever blend of that you use. Once you add either EM or any flavouring, that threshold...
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    Vinegar?

    First of all - this is a fabulous thread! I don't think this will work the way you are thinking - if you think about wine*, it is the balance between acids and sugar (and other tastes) that determines the taste, not the exact amount of acids or sugars per gram or milliliter. Your threshold...
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    my diy ejuice is horrible

    What Mgordon said about being careful with flavours. I know I am a bit extreme, because I tend to think that commercial juices are over-flavoured (the little I have tried of them I've mostly liked them better diluted to 50% or even less). I'm also almost exclusively interested in tobacco...
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    How to Clean a Syringe, Or If You Even Use One?

    I hate washing up. Hate it. But at the same time I don't want nasty gunky smelly syringes. If I was wealthy I would throw them away after use. But I am not. So what I do is A) Designate and label syringes for different uses Especially anything that has ever been in contact with something mint...
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    The impatient newbie strikes again...

    Time for an update I think. I have now made some things with my second extract (5 cigarillos in 10ml PGA, 20ml DW, 20 ml PG) that smelled (and still smells) so wonderful. I have made a juice out of 30% of this extract, 33% PG with 36mg/ml nic and 36% VG => 12mg/ml added nicotine. This juice...
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    TPA tobacco absolute

    I have TA from FlavourArt. Haven't tried it in anything yet, but I will. I used a toothpick to smear a tiny amount in a bottle, then added about half a ml of PGA and swished it around as best as I could. Then I filled the bottle with roughly 5ml ethyl maltol (at around 10%) PG. Haven't...
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    Sources for empty bottles, pipettes, etc?

    Those 1ml syringes are good, looks like the ones I use (my pharmacy has them for 10 euro cents each). For testing small batches something like that pillbox (never seen one of those IRL, only the ones that are much larger) would probably work well. But the thing I didn't realize at all before...
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    Sources for empty bottles, pipettes, etc?

    Great thread - if anyone has any good leads on cheap bottles and other supplies within the EU, who ships to Finland, I would be grateful (most of my stuff is from this Polish site, very cheap but somewhat limited selection). Right now I have *nearly* all I need for awhile, but I made a serious...
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    Counter-Menthol?

    Ouch ouch ouch!:blink: Screams the menthol-sensitive. [calming down] OK, you added it to the flavouring, not the juice itself? And the flavouring is 20% of the juice? Which makes two shards of menthol to 30ml of juice, right? That's still a lot. Or would be to me. If you don't want to use...
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    New Flavors

    Of those (or PA TFA in general) I've only used the M-type. There's threads about it, one of them should be fairly recent (I posted in it today). In fact I am right now vaping a sloppy mix of a juice made from my own extract (see the subforum) and 3 drops M-type/10ml mixed with a tiny bit of...
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    Counter-Menthol?

    Serial posting because I read your post again, and noticed something: I notice that this is happening with my current menthol-experiments, which incorporate a hefty dollop of mint and much stronger menthol than my first experiments. I thought it was the mint that was making it "overly menthol"...
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    Counter-Menthol?

    Very interesting question. My first thought was Koolada, but I have no experience with it at all. Another thought is: How are you adding your menthol? If you have crystals, what if you made an *extremely* weak solution of that, like one crystal in 10ml PGA. Then add an extremly small amount...
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    What Percent Of Flavoring Is Your Safe Bet?

    If you mean my first 7% FA Virginia, then no, actually I was just a bit bemused. "Hmm, this isn't very tasty... needs a lot of tweaking - I'll add some menthol!" That became the foundation for my slops-bottle (and an OK menthol-light vape when diluted with unflavoured to about half. Then I have...
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    What Percent Of Flavoring Is Your Safe Bet?

    I thought I was being careful and started with 7% and 5% - but I was using FA tobaccos, that are very strong, so this was faaaar too much. Especially as it turns out I am rather flavour-sensitive; I was testing a sample of a commercial liquid (zero nic), and just couldn't figure it out, because...
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    Flavor Apprentice M-Type

    It isn't steeped enough yet, but so far I can say that the above mix isn't too bad, and what's bad about it probably isn't the M-type. What's "bad" about it right now is that it is far too strong, resembles the highest strengths of some cigarettes (Davidoff Original, Rothmans - that type), which...
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