Stabilised wood
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I guess it's a subjective thing.
I never understood why people would buy a clone rda to save $20 from buying the full priced mass manufactured original. You see people go to great leaps and bounds to save less money than they would if they would have just made their own lunch instead of going out the other day.
My purple stab wood doors were 80 USD and 20 USD shipping, coming out to 100 USD/130 CAD. Is that a decent chunk of money? Yeah. But ultimately it's what i'd spend on picking up the new Call of Duty video game and a pizza. The doors bring me more satisfaction than a 6 hour story and a box of carbs.
I guess it comes down to if vaping is a nicotine delivery system or a hobby. For me the craftmanship and beauty are also valuable.
I feel less fleeced paying 230 + 100 + 100 for my plug setup than paying 60 + 60 + 80 + 100 + 60 + 60 for my mass produced chinese mods that sit on my shelf.
A problem I have with some wood mods is when a vendor has the same twice/thrice dyed stabilized woods on both of two same model mods that cost them the same to produce. But they gouge the buyer based on how the final product looks, it's eye appeal. These two were not offered until after they were completed. You could buy preorder "similar" sight unseen from them at a set price, but with no idea of which end of the 'eye appeal' scale they will end up being. So the preorder was a crap shoot for you, and a wait and see what the profit margin will be for the maker. Leaves the door open if it turns out to be a higher appeal example to make another that is lessor. Most of this model that they did post pictures of that I saw were closer to the lessor (or worse) than to the greater eye appeal of the higher priced of these two. But beauty is in the eye of the beholder so someone would have bought all of them as hard as they were being enabled on forums at the time. Either way they were a winner for the maker and for the buyers that got good service out of them. (I have two of their Minikins, a VGOD and a 1.5 that gave excellent service back when I used them.)
Another example was the Athena Pride with dyed/stabilized wood. The one used for all the advertising is a very eye appealing mod. But with the ones you bought sight unseen some were lessor but acceptable to way too many that were downright pitiful for their price. The one I have is Plain Jane compared to the advertised one, but a little better to my eye than the second one simply because it does have some reds and blues in it. I called it acceptable as I bought it new unseen for less than 60% of what the retail price was.
I hobby crafted exotic woods from the late 50's to a few years ago, and prefer the 10 Reo Woodvil's I have to most other wood mods. Some of that because Reos were my main gear for around 3.5 years.... some of that was cost. There were very high end woods used on elitist mods at up to 8-10 times the cost of what the $200-$250 Woodvils were (some were considered, none were bought). Both levels offer pride of ownership, but the bottom line is they both are a battery box first that help make vapor out of joose. So the higher cost elitist mods becomes more an ego/bragging rights thing.
Some woods have to be stabilized (or dyed) to be acceptable for mods (or most anything else for that matter), but many quality woods do not need to be stabilized at all with a proper finish applied for the species of wood it is.
All just IMO YMMV.
Another example was the Athena Pride with dyed/stabilized wood. The one used for all the advertising is a very eye appealing mod. But with the ones you bought sight unseen some were lessor but acceptable to way too many that were downright pitiful for their price. The one I have is Plain Jane compared to the advertised one, but a little better to my eye than the second one simply because it does have some reds and blues in it. I called it acceptable as I bought it new unseen for less than 60% of what the retail price was.
I hobby crafted exotic woods from the late 50's to a few years ago, and prefer the 10 Reo Woodvil's I have to most other wood mods. Some of that because Reos were my main gear for around 3.5 years.... some of that was cost. There were very high end woods used on elitist mods at up to 8-10 times the cost of what the $200-$250 Woodvils were (some were considered, none were bought). Both levels offer pride of ownership, but the bottom line is they both are a battery box first that help make vapor out of joose. So the higher cost elitist mods becomes more an ego/bragging rights thing.
Some woods have to be stabilized (or dyed) to be acceptable for mods (or most anything else for that matter), but many quality woods do not need to be stabilized at all with a proper finish applied for the species of wood it is.
All just IMO YMMV.
If you buy from a good shop, they should be willing to take pictures of the mod and send it to you before purchase.
I dodged this bullet last week thanks to it:
I dodged this bullet last week thanks to it:
Had a couple Devers stabilized mods years ago but to big and a bit heavy. I do like the looks, but really like a mixture of both wood and metal. I see some mods that are like completely wood but seems to much for me. My fav stab mod is the hellfire phantom stab, been trying for one for a while, but tough to get
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This guy makes some of the most beautiful ones but you will pay for that beauty. Im on there FB page Bois D' Arc Creek Woodworking
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