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  1. billherbst

    Natural Tobaccos - Part Deux

    Mazinny, If the Magma doesn't work out for me (for any of a hundred reasons), I won't blame anyone here, although your posting that is a good joke. No, if the Magma doesn't fly for me, it won't be the first 16 bucks I've blown (by a long shot) on questionable vaping toys, nor the last, quite...
  2. billherbst

    Natural Tobaccos - Part Deux

    All right, all right, stop already! Actually, you folks can keep up the uber-lovefest for the Magma RDA as long and as much as you like. That's your ECF-given right. It's me who has to be stopped. Sometimes I'm too easily seduced by my comrades, especially when you're all seemingly in unanimous...
  3. billherbst

    Natural Tobaccos - Part Deux

    You're kidding, right? No, you're probably not, although I have to say that Mann taking direct lung hits is roughly the equivalent of flying pigs, as in the old phrase, "XYZ will happen on the day that pigs fly," which Wikipedia tells us is called an adynaton, a way of saying that something will...
  4. billherbst

    Cold maceration of tobacco

    I prefer tobacco vapes to tea, but the tea extracts (and juices made from) are OK. Not very strong, but all right. I can't remember the amount of tea I used or the quantity of solvent. I'd say to err on the side of more tea to solvent.
  5. billherbst

    Cold maceration of tobacco

    I've done only two tea extractions, both heat-assisted, but I see no reason why room-temp cold macerations wouldn't work. Might have to let 'em steep for a long time, though, like three weeks to a month.
  6. billherbst

    The Really Big RY4 Roundup (long)

    That list already exists as The Big RY4 Report Card. The only retail RY4s not made with synthetic tobaccos are all included in the Natural Tobacco RY4s group in the Category Groups a couple posts above. Every other RY4 is made from synthetic, lab-based tobacco flavorings.
  7. billherbst

    The Really Big RY4 Roundup (long)

    I was never a fan of Halo eliquids, and, in particular, I hated the synthetic tobaccos I tried from Halo---Freedom and Torque 56. Both had that Halo "purity" thing that some people love, but which for others of us has a taste akin to the smell of bug spray or hospital disinfectant. For me...
  8. billherbst

    Slow Cooker Extraction of Tobacco and Tea

    On numerous occasions, I've read in the various threads about making extracts that cone-type drip coffee filters---whether bleached white or all-natural tan---have a pore size of 10-30 microns. I think what was meant by that is not that some brands of coffee filters are 10 microns while other...
  9. billherbst

    The Really Big RY4 Roundup (long)

    beachpuff, Below are my current personal favorites lists for Chinese and American RY4s. Maybe you'll find an RY4 you haven't tried that you'll like among those. Chinese RY4s 1. SmokelessImage Volt RY4 (classic) – beautifully balanced, near-perfect 2. Janty RY4 DK, Classic, or Elixir...
  10. billherbst

    Natural Tobaccos - Part Deux

    One man's ceiling... Between my experience and yours, choose yours.
  11. billherbst

    Cold maceration of tobacco

    For my next batch of five macerations (all pipe tobacco blends), I intend to try a 90PG/10PGA heat-assisted maceration in a 12-hour water bath, filtered with the French Press method using wire mesh, then a 5-micron poly felt pad backed by a 2.5-micron paper filter. The finer pore lab filters are...
  12. billherbst

    Natural Tobaccos - Part Deux

    An embarrassment of riches, eh? A nice problem to have.
  13. billherbst

    The Really Big RY4 Roundup (long)

    I’ve decided to add another of my personal favorites lists to The Big RY4 List. This will be added to the List at the next update in October, but I’ll post it now as a sneak preview. The new list is my Top 10 Personal Favorite NET-based Custom RY4s. All the RY4s on the list use natural tobacco...
  14. billherbst

    Natural Tobaccos - Part Deux

    Yes, I got that. My response was intended to add more, not challenge what you wrote. If we were sitting in a bar or restaurant having this discussion, body language, verbal tone, and other nuances would make it clear if any offense were being taken. With just the written word, however, that's...
  15. billherbst

    Natural Tobaccos - Part Deux

    boomer, I've pretty much settled on a range of 14-20% with my pipe tobacco extracts. The particular sample bottle of Steamroller I mixed used 20% extract. I don't think a lower percentage of extract would improve it, however. The extraction itself is fine---a deep caramel transparency that is...
  16. billherbst

    Natural Tobaccos - Part Deux

    Yes, I'm well aware that smoking and vaping are very different experiences. Some elements of the smoking experience do not translate at all to vaping. Burning characteristics from cool to hot are meaningless to vapers, as are moisture of the blend and how the cut packs in a bowl. On the other...
  17. billherbst

    Natural Tobaccos - Part Deux

    I want to report again about my home-extracted Hearth&Home Freight Train non-aromatic pipe tobacco blend. Initially, I wasn’t pleased. This is a complex blend of tobaccos---Red Virginia, dark Burley, dark-fired Kentucky, plus a bit of Black Cav and Perique---and my first reaction was that the...
  18. billherbst

    Natural Tobaccos - Part Deux

    Here's the verbatim skinny from the product pages on the Ahlusion web site: "While our non-aromatic blends are based on natural tobacco extracts (mainly various blends of light and dark Cavendish), the focus is not on the tobacco itself, but a blend or flavors in this recipe. The tobacco used...
  19. billherbst

    Natural Tobaccos - Part Deux

    To me, Smooth Criminal is a singularly unusual juice. I might say unique. I'm on my third 30ml bottle after a year and a half, and I still have no clue what's in SC. I do get tobacco flavor from it, but I have no idea what kind of tobacco it is nor how it was extracted. A light Cavendish? Yeah...
  20. billherbst

    Slow Cooker Extraction of Tobacco and Tea

    Is it OK to let a crock-pot heat-assisted maceration go for 26 hours straight? My strong opinion is that none of us here can offer a definitive answer to your question, at least not one that's hard-and-fast or objectively valid and reliable. I'd suggest that you try it and find out. I would...
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