I never did smoke cigarettes, probably because I hated the ones my mom smoked when I was little. Had a couple of pipes 20 years ago but gave up on them when I found cigars in the 90s just before the boom. There's still a coolerdor of mostly Honduran cigars in the living room. I don't smoke them much because 1) my employer has excellent benefits but asks about nic use, and 2) I hate the post-smoking taste in my mouth.
starting out
Last month I picked up an Evod kit for a smoker at work. It came with a 2nd unit inside so I kept that one for myself to play with. Originally my plan was to find some 0nic tobacco flavors. Seems this was doomed to fail as all the tobacco flavs I've tried so far are bizarre in their own way.
Digression: it would be neat if someone bought 20 different tobacco flavors, decanted them into 1ml vials and shipped the tester for $20. Maybe print off a numbered list with room for notes and only show the brand on a back page to facilitate blind tasting. It gets expensive buying bottles just to try them once and then PIF.
DIY
Since tobacco seems elusive/impossible for me I've tried some other stuff. Liked a banana nut bread and one coffee but with juice being close to $1/ml at my local I decided to DIY some simple stuff. Made some 0.5ml - 1.0ml microbatches of some single flavoring stuff (mainly TFA). Really liked caramel @ 7.5%, gingerbread cookie @ 7.5%, cinnamon spice @ 0.75%, and caramel cappucino @ 1 drop/10ml (!). Made up some 30ml batches of those in dropper bottles and continuing to try other stuff.
Hardware
The evod I started with. Not a cloud chaser so the vapor production of this pen is just fine with me. Bought a glass clearomizer evod tank for it so I could run cinnamon as mentioned above.
Ordered an iStick 60w but it's not here yet. I don't like the clunky, offbalance look of box mods but this one is more oval and has the atty centered. And lets me use my own 18650 instead of built-in. I won't need TC or the high wattage but wanted this design. Also ordered a Kato clone mech for side-by-side goodness, but I might've ordered the iStick Basic if I'd seen that one first.
Picked up a Stillaire v4 RDA clone to make quick flavor testing easier. Haven't built anything on it yet. I will after the iStick arrives. Built a couple test coils on a Kayfun v4 clone but don't have anything to fire it up on yet.
Man, that thing is complicated...
Anyhow, that's where I am.
starting out
Last month I picked up an Evod kit for a smoker at work. It came with a 2nd unit inside so I kept that one for myself to play with. Originally my plan was to find some 0nic tobacco flavors. Seems this was doomed to fail as all the tobacco flavs I've tried so far are bizarre in their own way.
Digression: it would be neat if someone bought 20 different tobacco flavors, decanted them into 1ml vials and shipped the tester for $20. Maybe print off a numbered list with room for notes and only show the brand on a back page to facilitate blind tasting. It gets expensive buying bottles just to try them once and then PIF.
DIY
Since tobacco seems elusive/impossible for me I've tried some other stuff. Liked a banana nut bread and one coffee but with juice being close to $1/ml at my local I decided to DIY some simple stuff. Made some 0.5ml - 1.0ml microbatches of some single flavoring stuff (mainly TFA). Really liked caramel @ 7.5%, gingerbread cookie @ 7.5%, cinnamon spice @ 0.75%, and caramel cappucino @ 1 drop/10ml (!). Made up some 30ml batches of those in dropper bottles and continuing to try other stuff.
Hardware
The evod I started with. Not a cloud chaser so the vapor production of this pen is just fine with me. Bought a glass clearomizer evod tank for it so I could run cinnamon as mentioned above.
Ordered an iStick 60w but it's not here yet. I don't like the clunky, offbalance look of box mods but this one is more oval and has the atty centered. And lets me use my own 18650 instead of built-in. I won't need TC or the high wattage but wanted this design. Also ordered a Kato clone mech for side-by-side goodness, but I might've ordered the iStick Basic if I'd seen that one first.
Picked up a Stillaire v4 RDA clone to make quick flavor testing easier. Haven't built anything on it yet. I will after the iStick arrives. Built a couple test coils on a Kayfun v4 clone but don't have anything to fire it up on yet.
Man, that thing is complicated...Anyhow, that's where I am.
