OK, I have supplies, give me your advice, please (NOOB)

[interestingfellow]

As you can see, i have quite quickly amassed a good little kit for diy juice (mostly within the last 2 weeks) as well as a good little collection of juices.

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I have 100mg juice (60ml)
VG base (humco right now, P&G sample on it's way, hopefully)
Ethyl Maltol
Menthol crystals
Flavor apprentice flavors
cranberry, blackberry, raspberry, marichino cherry, black cherry, blueberry, coconut, hazelnut, pepermint, coco, dark vapor, perfumer's apprentice tobacco absolute, and
(on the way) bavarian cream, english toffee, caramel, marshmallow, and vinila (burbon)
I need to get my hands on some PGA for dilutions (menthol and TA) and for TH, looked at making some shine at home, but have reserved myself to distilling Bicardi 151 into PGA.

I'm trying to get my own juices mixed, tweaked until I love it's perfection, and would like some suggestions on what to try to make with what I've got (direct link or quick and dirty formula). I've looked at some of the calculators and have a few recipes in my sights.
OH, only VG and ingredients, and only 4mg. I had to start trying to make my own juice cause no one sells it that low and I like DIY anything (and I'm working to the 0nic point; in 3 months I went from 3pack newport/day to 3 "packs" 8mg vapor/day). The treasure chest juices I just tried were 16/18mg and I got high like I the first time I ever had an analogue!

Here's what I've liked (kind of a baseline for my tastebuds):
I love liberty flights menthol mix but also Nhaler's xhale (I've also done a DIY "menthol" but it's only good enough to get by with for the moment).
Just tried V4L & dekang RY4 and love that, as well as cloudpure tobacco carmel and really like that (but I almost hate eating caremel!?!?)
As well as apple pie, coconut, pineapple, pina colada, coco (not "chocolate", but coco, like a bitter dark chocolate), as well as a few berry type juices.

Thanks, I can't wait to hear what the vets might have to say...
BTW, that case is, IMHO, pretty appropriate, roomy, and organized. $18 at harbor freight (go get a coupon for %25 for July 4th to save some extra)

 

[Hoosier]

Start simple.

Try single flavor experiments to find your flavoring levels.

Then start combining.

Keep notes. Keep good notes.

Have Fun!

 

[36tinybells]

Hoosier is right-But let me add that a couple drops of bavarian creme has "fixed" many a juice I diy'd and felt was flat. Make only 3m to 6m to start, until you get some skills. Also Gourmet Vapor shows what flavorings go into their juices, just not what %.

 

[36tinybells]

Okay, wait, they do show % of flavor but not what to use % for nic and pg/vg!

 

[Kurt]

I would definitely get 3 and 12 mL syringes, and download scubabatdan's e-juice calucaltor spreadsheet. The syringes since drops of different viscosity liquids will be different sizes, and you don't want to use too much of that 100 mg nic liquid (I would have recommended starting at lower nic levels for the unflavored, since DIY, especially in the beginning, is MESSY!...What am I saying, its STILL messy!)

Plastic dropper bottles can be gotten cheap from USPlastics.com. I get 3, 6, and 10 mL bottlees, but they have larger.

You definitely have a nice array of flavors! From PA the only vanilla I have really liked is the Vanilla Swirl, found the others, including vanilla bourbon, to be weak and not quite "it", but YMMV.

I would also get some nitrile gloves, like examination gloves you can get from a pharmacy. And be sure to have LOTS of paper towels on hand! Careful to not get any of that 100 mg on your skin!

stay safe, and have fun with the DIY! And Hoosier is correct: keep it simple. I make 3 mL test batches of juices in the beginning, low nic, and those that I finish are the ones good enough to scale up.

 

[FunkyVapes]

Not sure if you use one yet, but this thing is my electronic DIY bible:

eJuice Recipe Calculator

 

[interestingfellow]

Well, thank you. All excellent responses, not quite the dreamy recipe's I'd hoped for, but it was a silly hope since there's a ton of recipe's with the calculators. I knew I was just being lazy asking for what i could look up anyway

Please, fear not, I did very well at chemistry in HS and College. Although i have forgotten most of the specific info for various compounds and elements, I found stoichiometry fun (ratios and reactions, very similar in concept to DIY juice mixing). Also, what you don't see in the box is nitrile gloves, 1ml, 3ml, 5ml, and 60ml syringes, several pyrex graduated cylinders, voc respirator, and of course, safety goggles (not glasses). Besides, I don't want to be screwing about mixing high dose nic all the time, so i have 2 500ml bottles right there in the top of the box, one for 4mg nic, and one for 18mg nic (trying to convert my wife, who still kills a pack of newports/day) that way i won't have to mix nic base more often than necessary (500ml at a time).

I just lack the finer knowledge and experience of ingredient combinations to get the good tasting juice.

Anyway, thank you again!

 

[donnah]

Okay, wait, they do show % of flavor but not what to use % for nic and pg/vg!

It doesn't really matter what percentage of nic, pg and vg... just the percentage of flavors and the brand of flavors (capella, FA, TPA and so forth)