Super Easy DIY Method
A bunch of ppl have followed the directions for this in my Newbies thread and told me they love it as much as I do now so I figured I'd post a new thread and explain it a little better and maybe update some of the links.
So this is the absolute simplest, easiest way to get started w/ DIY juice, it's super cheap (about 20 cents a day to vape as much as you want) and could not be easier. You only need 3 things to do this - nicotine base, flavor and an empty bottle. That's it.
Basically, instead of buying condensed nicotine and diluting it w/ PG or VG , calculating the measurements, etc all you have to do is buy pre-made nic base at the same mg you normally vape and add flavor. For example, I vape 12mg so I buy a 215ml bottle of this - http://www.ecigexpress.com/nicotine...flavored-e-liquid-nicotine-select-size-p-1479
Here's the link for all strengths - http://www.ecigexpress.com/nicotine-bases-1mg-24mg-bases-c-43_49_100
Lots of other sites have this kind of base btw - RTS, Wizard Labs, etc - but I like ecx cuz it's cheap, clear/clean and I can get the flavors and bottles at the same time.
Once you have your base all you need to do is add condensed flavor - http://www.ecigexpress.com/diy-flavoring-c-16
My favorite company is Flavour Art from Italy btw, they have the best flavors imo - I have yet to get one I didn't like enough to finish the bottle. They tell you it's super condensed stuff which it is but don't go thinking 1 drop will taint an entire 30ml bottle of base. Personally I like to start w/ a little 5ml bottle of base and add 5 drops, take a whiff and add more till it smells good, drip a drop into my 306 and go from there. If I like it I just multiply the # of drops I added to make a bigger bottle. So for ex if 8 drops is perfect into 5ml, a 30ml bottle = 48 drops. Here's a good juice calculator if you wanna get all technical about it, imo it's more fun just to wing it like cooking - essentially just add to taste - http://www.ecigexpress.com/ejuice-calculator.php
You can also buy empty bottles from ecx - http://www.ecigexpress.com/diy-supplies-empty-bottles-c-43_44
My advice is get at least 10 of various sizes, you'll need em...personally I like the 30ml size plastic ones and I have a couple 60ml and a few 30ml blue glass ones for my favs. You can get a syringe from there too btw, I bought one but never use it cuz nic base it very thick and takes forever to fill up a syringe so I tend to mix 30ml size bottles by just dumping the stuff straight into the bottle and adding/measuring flavor by dripping directly from the bottle (FA flavors all have dropper tops).
btw I vape 50/50 but if you like 70/30 for ex obviously you'd just buy 120ml of PG and 120ml of VG and figure out the percentage to ml conversion and then use a syringe to measure
That's it, easiest thing in the world and not only will it save you at least $40 a week over buying from a vendor but it'll be some of the best juice you've had cuz you can tweak it to your taste plus you know when you order something like oba oba you're getting the original Flavour Art flavor and not some cheap knockoff (also, making crazy concoctions is way too much fun and can produce some really good stuff - my fav is hypnotic mist, oba oba and royal tobacco - it's like fruity, vanilla-tinted tobacco w/ exotic undertones...love it).
Also, I'll just add my take on steeping - If a juice you mix is terrible most likely it will improve w/ time but chances are it'll never be really good. Steeping serves to enhance and blend flavors so a freshly mixed juice that's pretty good can become amazing w/ just a couple weeks of steeping but a bad juice will only ever get marginally better, at least that's my experience anyway. If you don't know what steeping is - http://nu-vapor.com/forum/diy-liquids/12975-steeping-e-juice-explained.html
Hope that was all easily understandable, the vendors will hate me for this but I hate them for taking all my $ for the first 2 months so I guess we're even...
Enjoy, get your juice on, happy vaping, etc.
A bunch of ppl have followed the directions for this in my Newbies thread and told me they love it as much as I do now so I figured I'd post a new thread and explain it a little better and maybe update some of the links.
So this is the absolute simplest, easiest way to get started w/ DIY juice, it's super cheap (about 20 cents a day to vape as much as you want) and could not be easier. You only need 3 things to do this - nicotine base, flavor and an empty bottle. That's it.
Basically, instead of buying condensed nicotine and diluting it w/ PG or VG , calculating the measurements, etc all you have to do is buy pre-made nic base at the same mg you normally vape and add flavor. For example, I vape 12mg so I buy a 215ml bottle of this - http://www.ecigexpress.com/nicotine...flavored-e-liquid-nicotine-select-size-p-1479
Here's the link for all strengths - http://www.ecigexpress.com/nicotine-bases-1mg-24mg-bases-c-43_49_100
Lots of other sites have this kind of base btw - RTS, Wizard Labs, etc - but I like ecx cuz it's cheap, clear/clean and I can get the flavors and bottles at the same time.
Once you have your base all you need to do is add condensed flavor - http://www.ecigexpress.com/diy-flavoring-c-16
My favorite company is Flavour Art from Italy btw, they have the best flavors imo - I have yet to get one I didn't like enough to finish the bottle. They tell you it's super condensed stuff which it is but don't go thinking 1 drop will taint an entire 30ml bottle of base. Personally I like to start w/ a little 5ml bottle of base and add 5 drops, take a whiff and add more till it smells good, drip a drop into my 306 and go from there. If I like it I just multiply the # of drops I added to make a bigger bottle. So for ex if 8 drops is perfect into 5ml, a 30ml bottle = 48 drops. Here's a good juice calculator if you wanna get all technical about it, imo it's more fun just to wing it like cooking - essentially just add to taste - http://www.ecigexpress.com/ejuice-calculator.php
You can also buy empty bottles from ecx - http://www.ecigexpress.com/diy-supplies-empty-bottles-c-43_44
My advice is get at least 10 of various sizes, you'll need em...personally I like the 30ml size plastic ones and I have a couple 60ml and a few 30ml blue glass ones for my favs. You can get a syringe from there too btw, I bought one but never use it cuz nic base it very thick and takes forever to fill up a syringe so I tend to mix 30ml size bottles by just dumping the stuff straight into the bottle and adding/measuring flavor by dripping directly from the bottle (FA flavors all have dropper tops).
btw I vape 50/50 but if you like 70/30 for ex obviously you'd just buy 120ml of PG and 120ml of VG and figure out the percentage to ml conversion and then use a syringe to measure
That's it, easiest thing in the world and not only will it save you at least $40 a week over buying from a vendor but it'll be some of the best juice you've had cuz you can tweak it to your taste plus you know when you order something like oba oba you're getting the original Flavour Art flavor and not some cheap knockoff (also, making crazy concoctions is way too much fun and can produce some really good stuff - my fav is hypnotic mist, oba oba and royal tobacco - it's like fruity, vanilla-tinted tobacco w/ exotic undertones...love it).
Also, I'll just add my take on steeping - If a juice you mix is terrible most likely it will improve w/ time but chances are it'll never be really good. Steeping serves to enhance and blend flavors so a freshly mixed juice that's pretty good can become amazing w/ just a couple weeks of steeping but a bad juice will only ever get marginally better, at least that's my experience anyway. If you don't know what steeping is - http://nu-vapor.com/forum/diy-liquids/12975-steeping-e-juice-explained.html
Hope that was all easily understandable, the vendors will hate me for this but I hate them for taking all my $ for the first 2 months so I guess we're even...
Enjoy, get your juice on, happy vaping, etc.
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