The best vaporizers combine high performance with an artistic design that enhances the vaping experience. 7th Floor, a company devoted to putting out premium whip-style vaporizers, have definitely taken personality into account in their designs. Three of the Colorado company’s most popular units are the Silver Surfer, Da Buddha, and the SideKick vaporizer, each with its own unique look and feel. Let’s take a look at three vaporizers known just as much for their performance as their originality.
Silver Surfer Vaporizer
There’s a reason the Silver Surfer desktop vaporizer has made a name for itself as one of the best vaporizers on the market. Pure vapor production, intuitive ease-of-use, and an original, durable design leaves little to ask for in a desktop vaporizer.
Operating the Silver Surfer is simple. You need only grind up your herb then siphon it up into the glass wand whip attachment. Once the unit has heated up, you simply connect the wand with the heating cover as you inhale.
While operation is seamless, there is a slight learning curve with the Silver Surfer vape. Note that the faster the air moves through the heating cover, the cooler it becomes. The slower the air moves, the hotter the heating cover stays. That means you might have to turn the heat up if you take faster hits, and down if you take slow drags.
An intuitive glass temperature knob allows you to toggle the heat “clock style.” For beginners who want a lighter level of vapor production, 1 o’clock is an ideal temperature. For experienced vapers looking for heavier hits, 2 or 3 o’clock is best.
With some whip-style vaporizers like the SSV, your herbs may vaporizer a little unevenly in the bowl of the glass wand. Luckily, 7th Floor includes a pick to stir your bud around and get the most out of each pull.
Thanks to its unique design and high performance, this unit is a major contender for the best desktop vaporizer on the market.
Da Buddha Vaporizer
Da Buddha is more affordable than the Silver Surfer, but shares many of the same attributes that make its sister unit one of the most loved desktop vaporizers.
Like the Silver Surfer, Da Buddha vape incorporates a ceramic heating element and glass-on-glass parts for vapor production of higher purity. This is reflected in the whip, which consists of a glass wand used for loading herb into the unit, and a glass mouthpiece, and tubing in the middle.
The whip was especially designed to make it easy to remove and insert screens, a convenience vape connoisseurs who’ve had trouble changing screens in the past will appreciate. And unlike the Silver Surfer, the glass wand is hands-free, meaning you don’t have to hold it to the heating element while vaping. Instead you simply slide the wand into place and wait for full satisfying hits that truly display the essence of your herb.
This desktop vaporizer uses the same clock-like temperature knob as the Silver Surfer (although minus the SSV’s artful glass knob). While there’s no digital display reading out the exact temperatures, finding the right temp is fairly intuitive. Heat time is not too fast, not too slow at 2 minutes. Once Da Buddha starts working its vaporous magic, drawing slowly on the whip for a good 5 to 8 seconds gives you an ample hit that is pure tasting and smooth like the SSV’s vapor production.
The SideKick Handheld Vaporizer
The SideKick Handheld Vaporizer For their first portable vaporizer, 7th Floor delivered the quality and style they’re known for in a beautifully designed unit that fits ergonomically in your hand.
The high performing SideKick also includes some features which know one’s really seen in a portable vaporizer before. First 7th Floor developed a vapor vortex cooler--a windy, screw-shaped insert that you can stick in the freezer and then in your vaporizer, cooling vapor as it passes through the vortex’s cold metal pathway. This innovative little piece also lengthens the distance vapor travels from 7” to 18”, allowing it to drop in temperature before it reaches your mouth.
Another rare feature of the SideKick is an easy stirring mechanism that enables you to stir your herb in between draws without removing the lid. The gear-like handle can be pushed to and fro with your thumb. This keeps the airflow from the unit’s hybrid conduction/convection heating system even throughout your herb to prevent harsh hits.
That balanced, cooled out vaporization, coupled with a handblown glass mouthpiece and 21 precise temperature settings, make the SideKick the Silver Surfer of portable vaporizers.
