Greetings to the DIY forum. Allow me to introduce myself. I smoked for over 25 years. I tried e-cigs a couple years ago and did not like what I tasted and tried. I looked into the scene again in July and discovered that there are much better systems than Blu type devices...... 
Whether right, wrong or indifferent, after researching the products that were out there, I chose to embrace the Halo community and purchased a Triton starter kit and bought various Halo tobacco flavors. -Well..... IT WORKED! I have not had a SINGLE cigarette since. NOT ONE. Five months of being smoke free. Amazing! Thanks to Halo, I am SO over smoking. The people over in the Halo forum are SO helpful and friendly. I cannot thank them enough for pointing me in the right direction with some sound advice.....
I just have a big problem with the obscene prices of their liquids. They taste fantastic, BUT.... It was actually less expensive to roll my own cigarettes than it is to vape Halo liquids. I REFUSE to go back to smoking so the logical thing to do is DIY my juices. I have been dropping pure NicQuid menthol drops into my Torque 56 and it totally reminds me of what I used to smoke- A full flavor menthol cigarette that I made with menthol tubes and menthol tobacco. I like the Tribeca and the Prime 15 too with the menthol.
I did some exhaustive reading in this DIY forum, especially an EPIC adventure regarding Totally Wicked Halo clones. That took hours and I picked up on many, MANY acronyms used by you mad mixers. It was extremely frustrating to learn what all of your acronyms and shorthand mean. High five to Danny, Schizm, Cyrus and many others that took me on this adventure of intrigue, frustration, promise, success, and countless hours of experimentation.
So I am stoked to get into DIY liquid mixing. I am a tinkerer at heart so this is right up my alley. This is my checklist. For starters, I am looking to make nothing but menthol tobacco flavor for my ADV. nothing too crazy. I realize that everyone's taste is subjective but I want to have enough options to be able to come up with something I can enjoy on the first shipment of stuff:
RTS Vapes: 60mg PG nic, pure PG & pure VG...... I will be mixing at perhaps 75/25 PG to VG @ 15 to 18 mg/ml nic.
50 mm funnel, 10ml cylinder, 1cc, 3cc, 5cc syringes, various size glass bottles and small sample sizes
Cocoa flavor, Bitter Wizard, Vape Wizard, & NicQuid Menthol Burst liquid
Hangsen tobacco essence flavors: Arabic, RY1, RY4, RY4 Double, T5, Highway, Elder Captain, 555
Perfumers Apprentice: Acetyl Pyrazine, Trimethyl Pyrazine, Tetramethyl Pyrazine, Methylbutyraldyhyde
I suppose some of the simpler Halo clones would be all I need for an ADV. But it does not even need to that elegant. The best thing I have ever vaped is my Halo Torque 56 with the menthol drops. It has that dirty, ashy tobacco taste that seems authentic to me. THIS is my goal for an ADV- a vape version of a full flavor menthol cig, not some fruity Voodoo thing {which IS good!}
I have never vaped any other vendor's juices as I heard good stuff regarding Halo. Their juice tastes great.
Do you pros see anything that I am missing to get started in the fun? Any objections to Hangsen? Their tobacco flavors seem pricier than most. Is it worth it? Are my flavor choices good for some variety?
Do most make a larger unflavored nic/pg/vg base to start with, then play with, say, a 5 ml sample of this premixed base to add to?
Sorry for so many question and for being so wordy. After new years, I will be ordering. HAPPY NEW YEARS!!!! -Johnny
Whether right, wrong or indifferent, after researching the products that were out there, I chose to embrace the Halo community and purchased a Triton starter kit and bought various Halo tobacco flavors. -Well..... IT WORKED! I have not had a SINGLE cigarette since. NOT ONE. Five months of being smoke free. Amazing! Thanks to Halo, I am SO over smoking. The people over in the Halo forum are SO helpful and friendly. I cannot thank them enough for pointing me in the right direction with some sound advice.....
I just have a big problem with the obscene prices of their liquids. They taste fantastic, BUT.... It was actually less expensive to roll my own cigarettes than it is to vape Halo liquids. I REFUSE to go back to smoking so the logical thing to do is DIY my juices. I have been dropping pure NicQuid menthol drops into my Torque 56 and it totally reminds me of what I used to smoke- A full flavor menthol cigarette that I made with menthol tubes and menthol tobacco. I like the Tribeca and the Prime 15 too with the menthol.
I did some exhaustive reading in this DIY forum, especially an EPIC adventure regarding Totally Wicked Halo clones. That took hours and I picked up on many, MANY acronyms used by you mad mixers. It was extremely frustrating to learn what all of your acronyms and shorthand mean. High five to Danny, Schizm, Cyrus and many others that took me on this adventure of intrigue, frustration, promise, success, and countless hours of experimentation.
So I am stoked to get into DIY liquid mixing. I am a tinkerer at heart so this is right up my alley. This is my checklist. For starters, I am looking to make nothing but menthol tobacco flavor for my ADV. nothing too crazy. I realize that everyone's taste is subjective but I want to have enough options to be able to come up with something I can enjoy on the first shipment of stuff:
RTS Vapes: 60mg PG nic, pure PG & pure VG...... I will be mixing at perhaps 75/25 PG to VG @ 15 to 18 mg/ml nic.
50 mm funnel, 10ml cylinder, 1cc, 3cc, 5cc syringes, various size glass bottles and small sample sizes
Cocoa flavor, Bitter Wizard, Vape Wizard, & NicQuid Menthol Burst liquid
Hangsen tobacco essence flavors: Arabic, RY1, RY4, RY4 Double, T5, Highway, Elder Captain, 555
Perfumers Apprentice: Acetyl Pyrazine, Trimethyl Pyrazine, Tetramethyl Pyrazine, Methylbutyraldyhyde
I suppose some of the simpler Halo clones would be all I need for an ADV. But it does not even need to that elegant. The best thing I have ever vaped is my Halo Torque 56 with the menthol drops. It has that dirty, ashy tobacco taste that seems authentic to me. THIS is my goal for an ADV- a vape version of a full flavor menthol cig, not some fruity Voodoo thing {which IS good!}
I have never vaped any other vendor's juices as I heard good stuff regarding Halo. Their juice tastes great.
Do you pros see anything that I am missing to get started in the fun? Any objections to Hangsen? Their tobacco flavors seem pricier than most. Is it worth it? Are my flavor choices good for some variety?
Do most make a larger unflavored nic/pg/vg base to start with, then play with, say, a 5 ml sample of this premixed base to add to?
Sorry for so many question and for being so wordy. After new years, I will be ordering. HAPPY NEW YEARS!!!!
-Johnny
