You outed yourself, so I can speak freely now. Did not know your wishes on such things.

Yes, what a fun evening. You're such a good, fun, and interesting man. Thanks for the friendship and enlightened albeit highly medicated conversation:)

I posted a review of my experience with your three vapes in the Ghost section. We should start doing this once a month. Or perhaps we could organize Forum conventions like we do on my wargame forum.... so much fun to meet people in person you've known for years.


When two drummers get together and self-medicate, there shall be music and jamming.


Evidence of vaping shenanigans


Getting personal instruction on the MV1


More personal instruction on the MV1, getting it ready to compare taste with FF2.

For those trying to understand why Duff posted this originally.....you have no idea what motivated him unless you were here and witnessed it as it went on. I never bothered to post because I felt Duff hit the nail on the thread so to speak. It was the opposite of FC for awhile....like a bad reddit forum...lol

So please do not get your undies in a bunch.....everything is pretty cool now so dont get stressed on the grave digging here.....its no big deal and things finally changed for the better as the forum grew up. Bud and Hazel got it under control.....no worries.

And now you know.........the rest of the story!

Last night a new friend from this forum (I won't mention his name as I have not solicited his wishes/permission in this regard) came over and brought three vapes I've been wanting to try. Mighty, Grasshopper and especially the Ghost MV1.

MIghty
I get it now. Load it, turn it on, wait, and toke. Invert it, lay it down, play pass football with it.... It just works and really well. One big negative for me: Substandard taste.
Oh!! I pre-pressed some flower in a little tubular pollen press for purposes of showing him how I press Rosin, as I was putting my "cylinder" between the parchment paper, a little "disk" of the cylinder broke off so we put it in the Mighty. It fit perfect and WOW.... I liked it more just dropping that pre-pressed "pellet" into the Mighty. FYI from a newbie on it (I'm sure regular users know and do this)

Grasshopper
Lets just say I hated it until he broke out the bong attachment and wow! it did hit. I still think I dislike it, but it did hit. Did I say wow already?

Ghost MV1
The real purpose of this post since I've been "looking" at MV1's and have been off and on the fence for over a year. I was excited to try this vape (at the time it was a near "coin flip" between it and the FF2), and being a curious sort to decipher the seemingly alarming rhetoric and "fake news" around this vape.

First impression: Elegant.
This is a sturdy device. It "felt" good in the hand, solid, comfortable.... sexy. I was not expecting that level of "elegance". It took me only a minute or so to learn and become familiar with its controls. In short, it "felt" like a $300 item, not a $100 item masquerading as a $300 item. I guess I expected it to be "plasticky" and it feels like you got a real vaping weapon in your hand. This first impression stuff is important to me and it passed with an A. The unit was a pleasure to use.

Second impression: Tasty
I love my FF2 and tolerate its "temperament" precisely because it produces such tasty hits for me (good medication and bad taste is a bad vape for me).
Well, in the name of science we did side-by-side "taste hits", multiple times, and it was both our anecdotal judgement that the taste difference was just "difference"... both produced statistically equal tasty hits (and we took a lot of them!). He could tell too from the smile that appeared on my face more than once as the MV1's convection motor went from producing tasty terpes, to massive powerful vapor. Even the last "after hit" tasted acceptable (usually they are nasty) So I give it an A on taste.

Third impression: Medication Quality
For the MV1 vs FF2 fun, only the best will do. So I broke out my reserve flower, for special occasions (like this!). The MV1 absolutely works. His is not even the newer model (although he did say Ghost CS sent him a new part) and the medication experience was second to none, including the FF2 and Plenty (two vapes I absolutely love). So for fun we loaded a crucible of my good stuff, for purposes of me doing an entire hit on my own. He showed me how to "ramp up" the power so I can have a transition from taste hit, to rip hit, to after hit.... and it did not disappoint. I didn't want another hit for a while :)
Absolutely an A+.

Fourth Impression: Crucibles and Misc
The AVB looks like the avb from my FF2, peppery, not "volcano" uniform. I found no problem with it indicating inefficiency. I LOVE the crucibles. More specifically, the crucibles "kit" he had. My biggest complaint with my FF2 is loading in a hurry can be precarious, and the MV1 makes it easy to "load another bowl" with just a minimum of planning. For ease of reloading, I give it an A.

Fifth Impression: Observations and judgements
In summary (granted only over only one evening) this newbie really liked it and I plan to get one (I like the pink one!), and now with some experiential knowledge under my belt, I am LMFAO at some of the accusations, rhetoric, and down right slander that has been levied by some against this product and its advocates. One might have thought an absolute "Yugo" of a product was being sold and endorsed as something special? Nope. The MV1 is the real deal for many categories of vapers. If you like "race car" calibur vapes (I do!) and don't mind the extra TLC investment they require, then the MV1 is at the top of any rationally composed list.

@VapeCritic has done the vaping community a valuable service -- certainly he has done me a valuable service -- by partnering with Ghost and getting this useful vaping appliance marketed to the public, and helping to keep this innovative company producing improved and new devices.

The device really is that good. Combine this with perceived evidence Ghost CS takes itself seriously, is here for the long-haul, and you have a really good and exciting company too. I'm sold.

I think its fairly safe to safe that @EconMan and I survived!!
I wasnt El Jeffe but by the end of the night I might have thought I was!!!
Great time with a great new friend and I look forward to our next venture!!

@EconMan it was el jefe wasn’t it! He invited you to his lair for the oh-so sought after MV1!

But in all seriousness.. hope you had a nice time and hope this forum NEVER brings about any “bad” freaky deaky “it rubs the lotion on it skin or else it gets the hose again” type shit. Lol Unless you are asking for it... then it’s all good lol :sweat:

@Tyedyesamuraiguy I’d eat the dick tater. :smirk: Bud and I actually got a piece of steak that legit looked like a monster gross fatty d the day we picked our wedding venue! We went out to eat after we gave deposit and locked in date (just the two of us) and wam bam. :scream: Chef just laid it on the plate like nothing was wrong. Like he sees steak like this everyday. I took a pic... gonna see if I can find it. Hysterical!

say that again? Did you mean amazon has cool pen holders or that he should make a list of cool pen holders on amazon ... like a wish list?

@UbarDog I didn’t go back to see what was posted before chiwawa but I’m going with

then I thought it’s just magic man and this is the internet

lol

Cats like being grabbed by their scruff (not on their head but on the back of their neck, the extra skin) bc the mama cat would do that when they were kittens. It’s comforting to them... dogs however... ehhh not so sure. And I’m personally not a Chi dog lover very much. (Whomp whomp) They so yappy! My dad actually has my mom in his cell as “chihuahua” as joke between the two of them and he has the annoying chihuahua bark as her ringer. :lol: Being I get all my annoying traits from my mom...(and some amazingly great traits too of course) maybe I should take a hint? :lol: :groan: Also, fun additional fact about Hazel ... My grandpa used to have a @Señor Negro Chi-wawa named “Kookla” which means “Doll” in Russian. The end! :halo:

@Magicman is that spot for the chihuahua equal to the human “weenis/weenus”?

My thoughts were pertinent then and I tried to choose my words carefully. Frankly I never want to come across as a dick.

I still think what I wrote was constructive and not bashing or being a dick. Many folks agreed at the time. Things have improved, and once again I give Bud and the moderators all of the credit.

Bud and I have had many conversations and I think we've always been cool with each other despite any disagreements.

To @VapeCritic's and the moderators credit, they have made big strides in straightening out the forum. It is maturing nicely.
This thread is almost a year old.

I'm pretty sure I own more Splinter's and/or Z's than anyone in the world but still picked one up on this deal. It is destined to be a gift in the long run but I couldn't help myself and I get additional satisfaction in supporting my friend.

Maybe I'll gift it to sP.AM. since it's his fault they can't get these in Canada. Lol. That way he'll finally be able to experience the greatness of his good friend Ryan's original design HSA heater tech and he'll know what he has been missing all these years! :rofl:

This is my new home. Spent many years on FC and have a big collection with a ton of experience but I'm not allowed to post on vape related threads there anymore. :fear:

I was already spending a lot of time here as well so this was my first choice to set down some roots. I like the vibe of this place and feel Bud and company have found a groove on how to keep it lightly moderated enough, respectful and reasonable about some other details that impacted my decision to say goodbye to FC all together. Don't get me wrong, I still consider FC the current best overall choice for detailed information on vaporizers but man it has changed in so many other not so good ways that I honestly wonder about it's survival.

I guess I was spending a lot more time on FC at the time and missed the drama that prompted my friend Duff to open this thread but I feel it's headed in a good direction now. Hopefully membership continues to grow and we gain more caring and knowledgeable members that made FC such a great community.

I have met some of my closest friends on these boards. Many of them I have met face to face. Some not but I still regularly text/call and have shared things about our lives/families with these people. So to me this is about community as much as it is vaporizers.

And Magicman I'm just gonna come out and say this. Thanks for the revival of this thread because it is interesting to look back on how things have changed. In all honesty you completely confuse me in a lot of your posts with your cryptic language and innuendos (like the one that revived this again) but I am beginning to understand you better and appreciate a lot of your humor.

I have figured out that we live close so I'm gonna ask Bud if it's ok for me to let you try my g43 beta for a little so we can all hear your thoughts. Now if you break it it try to keep it I will hunt you down! Lol This has gone into my daily rotation for weeks now so I cannot be without it for long!

This way Bud gets additional feedback but even more importantly, we can shut down your whiny side and get you back to making fun of Bud's hairy forearms!!!! Lol.

I'll talk to Bud and set something up with you in a PM if it's ok. :victory:

I am honorary mod in chief, but I forgot my password.

Without this forum i would be stuck in a perpetual cycle of buying battery operated vaporizers that are just not meant for me.

Im not a stranger to marijuana but the vape scene for sure! All i can say about fc is that it seems like a sensory overload to me i cant make sense of any of it nor do i care to take the time too.

I had a bunch of questions about a vape I bought. I had read buds review and used his code to save on it. He gets something for his work i get a discount pretty awesome to me :starstruck: bud personally answered all my questions and even sent me some pods :100: . i find a real sense of community here and while i do not have the time to partake in the live streams this is also something that i think is truly amazing.

One point of many for this forum is to help make people experienced or brand new make informed decsions on purchasing vaporizers. Another is to help people trouble shoot or optimize their vaping experience.

This is the first forum i have ever been apart of and i have seen that i am not the only one. at the end of the day we get the information we need. The tolorance displayed here for new commers is a strong point of the forum and i find that it only adds to the information available. If i had come here before i bought my first vape i would have saved myself quite a bit of grief. Some people come here because vaping is there passion. Not everyone is here to hit the books and study vaping and get an a+ the only person that has right to make a post like this it would be bud this is his forum.

This place is a tasty cup of tea. If its not your prefered flavour there is plenty of variety.

Thanks for the opportunity to play @VapeCritic. It's been a blast.

I've been running the G43 daily for a while now and haven't had a bad session. It's super simple and repeatable once the myevic software is loaded.

Typically I am running at 11 watts. You can easily tailor the wattage to the experience that you are after. For me, flavor and the more energetic high are at 10-11 watts.

You can hit it as hard or slow as you want. The heater responds beautifully.

Of course there is a section of hot glass which you need to be mindful of and the wire can be awkward. It would be nice for a larger "safe" area to grab and it can get a bit awkward to empty/refill. But I got the hang of it quickly.

For $100 there aren't a ton of options that can provide such huge, tasty hits reliably.

Thanks again Bud.

As of now I’m leaning toward Milana 2

I'm just janitorial, I don't get involved with decor. :lol:

Ok Bud gave us the green light to open up on our G43 testing so here goes.

First off I am honored and thankful for being included in the beta group. It's always fun to get a new toy in the mail and it's especially fun when it performs like this!

It's clear that Bud did plenty of homework before putting this together. If you have been following along he did a lot of testing on some of the best vapes in the industry in the interest of gaining influence and idea generation on what he likes and what he doesn't. I have never had the opportunity to try the glass symphony but it's clear there is influence given the glass beads that serve as the heater mass. Even better about the G43 is that it is smaller, cheaper and works with a readily available mod box! This box mod solution is kinda a spin on the Tubo X with the heater completely separate from the battery.

So how's that performance? Well in my opinion it is really quite good! Vapor is dense and very tasty! For me it ranks up there with the some of my favorite vapes. The units I reach for most often are the Splinter, Splinter Z, Elev8r, Tubo dual, Supreme 3 and I throw in a a number of others including the Nomad, Milaana, Apollo, SSSV and of some Dynavap products. Like a number of these convection vapes the vapor can be on the warm side but I'm pretty used to that now. In fact I find myself missing it if it's not there. I have used this in a few ways....Dry through a J hook, dry through a larger glass piece (see here)

Or through water in which case I prefer a wide open flow like the VXL Hydrobomb or FC187 China glass (Bud uses the stereo matrix in some of his vids). The airlow is pretty open on this one but you do have to watch the top hat screen gunking up which will cause some restriction. Loading the joint is natural to me as this is the way I load all my 19mm glass joint vapes. Sorry for all you top hat loaders, not going to work with this design.

The biggest drawback's in my mind are heat up time (3-4 minutes in my experience if you want
solid results from the first rips) and possibly the cleaning. I say possibly because I have not tried it yet. I have swapped my top hat once I noticed additional restriction but that's it. And to me this is great because I tend to gravitate to low maintenance vapes. I have been using this almost exclusively for weeks and have found no need to do a deep clean. Given the design I don't see it anytime in the future either. Just swap the top hat with a clean one and possibly iso qtip wipe the inside of the joint and I feel you will be in business for a good while. It is made of glass so drops are nearly prohibited but it seems Bud will take care of you for a little while. Just another example of his extreme generosity given the price point he has set.

The beta testers made some suggestions on the handle and how the wire enters the heating chamber which I agree with. To me these ideas are not show stoppers (I would be satisfied as is) but it would possibly help move it from away from looking more like a home made design. I also like Labpong's suggestion for the Arizer caps but at the same time I would not want to introduce restriction or taste from added materials. I agree with his line of thought tho. I found myself wanting to tighten up that area on the unit.

We also talked about the whether or not to cover the glass beads to protect from burning. I'm mixed on this. I did get stung a little on one occasion (nothing major) but this isn't the only vape in my collection where you need to be careful. Bud likes the looks of the glass beads (as do I) so not sure where I stand here honestly. It's nice that you can touch the top, bottom joint and handle without any discomfort.

The cord can be a bit awkward to deal with but you get used to how to handle it and you can shorten it up with a twist tie if you like. I do see the advantages of not having the mod battery hanging on your glass but there is certainly a trade off in my opinion.

I am using these stands from 7th floor to hold the chamber while heating or not in use. I know the price is really good on the G43 but I'd be lying if I said I didnt want to see something like this included in the final package.

To summarize I think Bud has done a bang up job on this. Top shelf vapor quality at a $99 price point is nearly impossible to find. Yes it's not perfect but show me a vape that is, especially for this cost. If you are on the fence I would not hesitate. This vape can easily serve as your heavy hitter. It's not something I will be taking out of the house a lot but if you use glass at home it's going to be hard to beat.

Thanks again Bud for including me. I am honored to support the OG king of vapes!

haircut at 12:15 :party: finally

stream when i get home :fire:

with my secksi fresh fade

Yoooo im soooo tirrrred :groan:

Gotta goto sleep doods i’m sorry!! Stream tomorrow i promise!! Campaign promise!

If you like your stream you can keep your stream! :rofl:

So, it seems folks are very interested to hear about the G43...I'm still finalizing my thoughts overall, but Bud has definitely put together a beast. I actually was so excited to get the unit that I saved the best flower strains I've gotten over the last few months just so I could see how well it extracts and determine taste performance.

There are really no comparisons to other portable vapes, it's just that different an experience, and primarily for me a session vape. I do think the heat up / heat soak time for the balls keep it from being the device you can just grab and go, but even with a mod it's totally portable and without 'pods' or 'crucibles' it has worked great for me for packing easily, fully extracting (I'm generally a .25g guy) and managing the vape. I do suggest getting a stand or something, when using the Jhook there isn't an easy place to park it.

For the experience, the closest thing is probably the Glass Symphony desktop vape. Clearly the G43 doesn't have that same total overall power, but it replicates the heat transfer and provides a great clear convection hit and taste. I've been giving it a 3 - 4 minute warm up, and give it a minute or more between draws, and can get full extraction in about 6 hits (less with some strains). The taste is primo until you get the popcorn, and if you're using a Jhook you can get a really excellent throat hit.

I really think Bud met his stated goal, to create something powerful, affordable, and really set a high bar for companies that are spending millions on R&D and haven't released truly innovative products in years. Is this the last vape I will own, no of course not, but it is one I wouldn't be without in my collection.

Sorry all...I have been super busy last couple days with work.....was awake for 22 hours yesterday and 18 was work.....got 4 hours sleep the night before..... :yawn:

Here is a little piece of candy for some of you..especially testers.

I will use this hacked Arizer part later in the day and see how well I like it.

The GS has much more mass to hold the heat and extract in one hit, I would say 3 big hits will do it on the G43.
Since we are now allowed to talk about it I'm finding the G43 extremely tasty and very powerful for such a small battery powered device. Extraction is great and with a stir every couple of hits is very evenly cooked.



Alpha 01 battery version with water

Beta testers are now free to post anything they want about the G43 :ok: :100: :eyes:

Bud with beard

:lol: ok ok fine, you win, i’ll show you what they really look like. :eyes:



@Señor Negro and right?! I saw your msgs and other folks msgs last night saying no music and stuff but he was out cold. Memba when I asked why he was playing music if he knew they’d copyright bitch smack him in the face and fuck up the stream vid last night? Lol I love the djing... nice chill doonce bass vibe like we all partying on a Saturday night... but copyright trolls... they ruin it! :groan: always

Rescued my buddy from a no kill shelter when my other dog died. He's a good boy

@VapeCritic

Check this Bad boy out!

over on FC asking now where they got it from. It will stop people asking about water , or lack of

Edit Its the Vaporizer sherlock DigiTi package
https://herborizer.com/en/vaporizer-digiti/103-vaporizer-sherlock-digiti.html
Gonna go look for a rip off of it;p

Dudes!! If you ain't using something like this, then you ain't using diddly squat! hahaha