Review of The Crafty Marijuana Vaporizer

The Crafty Vaporizer is the little brother vape of the Mighty Vaporizer. It’s one of the best selling cannabis vaporizers on the market and we’re going to take a look at the features and how it stacks up to other vaporizers.

Size of the Crafty Vaporizer

The Crafty Vaporizer is about the size of a pack of cigarettes. It’s significantly larger than the marijuana pen-style vaporizers, but it’s still very portable and small enough to fit into your palm. It’s perhaps a little too big to fit into a tight pocket.

Battery Life and Charge

There’s an internal rechargeable battery which takes about an hour and a half to recharge when it is fully dead. You can get about 45 minutes of use from a fully charged Crafty. This isn’t as great as some others out there that provide up to 90 minutes of use. The one good feature is that you can plug in the Crafty Vaporizer and use it while it’s charging. But you do need to have around 15-20% battery to do this.

The charger itself is a micro USB which is the same charger that most Android phones use and they’re relatively cheap and easy to come by. You can even buy car adapters for it.

Automatic Shutoff

A great feature that a lot of portable vaporizers have is an automatic shutoff feature for safety. A small issue with the Crafty is that it turns off after about one minute of non use. However, you can avoid this by simply hitting one of the buttons during your vape session. Hitting the button will restart the internal clock to another minute so that you don’t lose power. In the event that it does turn off, you just have to press the power button in and it only takes a few seconds to heat back up.

Herb Chamber

The herb chamber has a capacity of about .3. A great thing about it is that you don’t have to be too precise with grinding your herb extremely fine. There is a grinder included in the vape package, which is a convenience. To fill the herb chamber, you simply use the enclosed filling tool the helps you pack the herb pretty perfectly each time you use it.

Vibrating Function

This is one of the only herbal vaporizers with a vibrating function. This comes in handy so that you know the device is turned on. Also, you know if it turns off. If for some reason you don’t press one of the buttons in time for the vaporizer to time out and shut off for non use, it will vibrate, so you aren’t having to check the lights over and over to see if it’s off.

Heat Up Time:

From the time you turn on the Crafty Vaporizer to the time it reaches the default or normal temperature (356° F) is about 90 seconds. There is also a boost mode which heats to 383° F. You can control this temperature via an app for your Smartphone.

Draw Time or Vapor Intensity

The Crafty Vaporizer does require you to take about a 7 to 10 second draw or hit from it to get a decent amount of vapor. In testing, a 5 second draw only produced a light vapor.

Cleaning

Surprisingly, this vaporizer is easily disassembled for cleaning. The mouth piece snaps right off, and you can clean the rings inside fairly quickly.

Cost

The Crafty Vaporizer will cost you about $399.

Overall, the Crafty Vaporizer is a great portable vaporizer. While it’s not as small as a weed vaporizer pen, nor does it have nearly as long of a battery life as others, it’s a solid device. It also does very well with dry herb which is very hard to come by.

Volcano Vaporizer Review

For most herbal connoisseurs, the Volcano Vaporizer has always been the gold standard and best in class in the vaporizer world.

The product of precision engineering and assembled by hand in Storz & Bickel’s factory in Germany, the stainless steel Volcano offers the best vaporizing experience of of any unit this monster has ever tried. The Volcano is very popular with people who have a high tolerance, and there’s a very good reason…it doesn’t mess around when it comes to vaporizing.

Anyone that says a vaporizer doesn’t get you as medicated as a traditional water pipe hasn’t tried the Volcano. You can obviously control the size of the bag and how much vapor you inhale, but folks, the sky’s the limit.

On top of that, the sexy vapor comes out of an elegant looking machine that I leave on display in my living room on the spaceship.

Cleaner and healthier than cigarettes, bongs, joints or other water pipes, the Volcano Vaporizer makes the process of getting medicated as easy and relaxed as the high itself.

Ease of Use: Volcano Vaporizer is super easy to use

First, plug in and turn on the volcano so it can heat up.

You grind your plant material with the herb mill provided.

If you get the (most common) easy valve version, an orange valve keeps the vapor secure and the bag tightly connected after loading herb. The easy valve is the easiest and quickest and thus the most common. Both valves cost the same.

If you get the solid valve (more rugged; requires the occasional cleaning) you fill the bud up, put the press in, and connect the balloon.

Activate the volcano, and the bag begins filling with pure, smooth, strong vapor. You can control the temperature as you wish.

It comes with a pre-made ready-to-go bag, as well as a roll so that you can create your own balloons of any size. Personally I use the default bag size, but you can customize it for any application.

Volcano Vaporizer Saves Me Money

Because the bag size is adjustable, hits can be as shallow or deep as you like. Unlike with a water pipe, you don’t have to inhale everything right away. If you have a big balloon made, you can take as long as necessary to use it up. It won’t go stale.

Thanks to the Volcano’s one-of-a-kind efficiency, you can save 15% or more in herb when you use the Volcano. Ask anyone who owns one: They’ll all tell you that they save a fortune, especially those who used to smoke blunts or joints and now swear by the Volcano.

The Volcano comes with a three-year warranty, though there are rarely any issues with them and I know people who have owned a Volcano for five years or more. Bags and screens are very cheap, and they’re the only items you’ll ever need to replace down the line.

Downsides

Price. Some would call the expense a downside, but quality never comes cheap. Is your dream car cheap or expensive?

For me, the major savings in herb costs was the justification for spending some extra money and getting the best vaporizer available. I’ve never regretted it.

The Volcano Digit

There are two versions of the actual unit – the Volcano Classic, and the Volcano Digit.

The Volcano Digit allows you keypad-precise control of the burning temperature, as opposed to the Classic whose dial isn’t as precise. While this is a very cool feature, and the display is also very cool, it’ll cost you $130 more.

If cash is tight, you shouldn’t feel at all bad about opting for the Classic. Both versions contain the same internal components in terms of the heating element and airways, and let’s face it, that’s the important part when you’re inhaling vapor into your body.

And yes, for the record, I myself do own the Volcano Digit. But I’ve tried the Classic many, many times and I love both.

The Bottom Line

If you want the best vaporizer out there, you get the Volcano Vaporizer. Its superiority is virtually unchallenged anywhere in the vaporizer universe. There’s nothing on the market as well designed, constructed, reliable, or effective as the Volcano. Period!