Kendo Vape Cotton Gold - question

[Snicks]

I always use just the regular generic cotton in my builds and though I always thought the taste was slightly off. So recently i decided to try out some good wick material and heard very good things about Kendo.

So I have wicked a couple times with it and I'm not having the best success. I first tried with a thicker/tighter wick. Not so tight that it moves the coils when pulling but fairly tight. Seemed ok but flavor was slightly muted. When I pulled the wick out it was brownish under the coil.

So then I wicked a smallish less thick piece and flavor was better but getting some burnt taste here and there which leads me to believe there might be some air gaps.

I will attempt another soon but I wonder; for those that use Kendo, in your experience do you prefer super tight or what? I have seen some making it way thicker than what I'm used to doing and they claim good results.

I'm used to working with flat sheets of cotton but this Kendo comes in strips. So far I have been splitting the strips but I wonder if anyone out there doesn't strip the cotton and uses it as is without thinning it out via cutting or what have you?

 

[Snicks]

Tried a third wick. Thicker, no burnt taste. Flavor is still off though. Testing continues..

 

[Beamslider]

ever try Rayon for wick?

 

[bombastinator]

I think I have kendo. It’s what it says on the label anyway. Comes in little squares. Generally I take a scissor and cut off a strip of very near the thickness of the square, compress one end to fit through the coil, which is usually 3-3.5mm, and then trim the excess off the ends

 

[Snicks]

My Kendo comes in string shape. I'm running Triple Core Fused Clapton Coils SS (28gx3 /36g) 6 wrap @ 3.2 Ohm
My mod is set to 50 watts. Anything higher than that and I get a burnt taste. (I'm used to vaping in the 70-75 watt range) but 45-50 watts seems to be best for these coils.

So that funky taste I was getting? It was my juice. After re-wicking 4 times I decided to clean the system and then dropped some old juice I have at work that is 50/50 18mg (I normally vape 30/70 6mg) and that funky taste I was getting is now gone. So my juice (which tastes fantastic in my Falcon and prince tanks) tastes bad in my Zesthia. Maybe it is drawing out more of that flavor note than my other tanks? Not sure but it's funky.

When I get off work today I will test some of my other juices in it.

ever try Rayon for wick?

I have not. I usually just buy generic cotton from my local vape shop. This Kendo cotton came highly recommended so i bought a couple bags of it. I think it may be fine though now that i discovered my juice was causing the terrible taste.

 

[Snicks]

Well I have tested several other juices and they all taste great so my issue was juice related in the end. Damn I wasted so much time replacing wicks thinking it was the coil/wick causing the bad taste.

Anyway carry on...

 

[Mysteron]

I use Kendo Gold pretty much exclusively now. I find it very good for a number of reasons: very absorbent (holds lot of juice), no break in, long lasting (very resistant to burning), wicks well (can be vaped almost dry for flavour changes on the fly), picks up flavour changes instantly, tails not prone to drenching and collapsing.

I never thought much to these high end cotton brands and used to use Ko Gen Do and even the generic pharmacy organic brands and subscribed to the "It's just cotton" theory. I do notice a difference though.

Plan to try the Team Labs Black and, maybe, Titanium Fiber Cotton (that's a brand name, not cotton type). That'll be it then though.