The TerpTorch (Complete Bundle)

When you buy the TerpTorch, you get a box that contains the main soldering iron section, and another box that contains the modifications to turn it into the TerpTorch.

This soldering iron is not something that they just bought off the shelf; they tried a whole bunch of different pre-existing tools and ended up having one modified specifically by the manufacturer to suit this purpose.

At the heart of many desktop vaporizers you will find a heating set up very similar to a soldering iron - a ceramic heating rod that provides the heat for the vaporization process. With the TerpTorch, they simply took that concept back to its roots with this ultra-simple design.

Aside from the TerpTorch itself, you also get a handy stirring and tamping tool, as well as a glass piece that is 18mm female to 14mm male. This glass piece functions as your bowl and as a water pipe adaptor, it’s all held together with the included Keck Clip.

The TerpTorch comes unassembled, I’m not the best at DIY kinds of things so I was a little concerned at first, but after watching the assembly video it was actually super easy to assemble and took less than two minutes.

I don’t think people are going to struggle with this one, and once you have completed the basic assembly process, it is good to go. Once you’ve finished assembly the only thing left to do is to leave it turned on for 10 minutes at the highest temperature to burn off any manufacturing residue.

The TerpTorch itself is about 8 1/2 inches long, if you’ve ever held a soldering iron before you will be familiar with the weight and feel of it. As long as you only put your hands where they are supposed to be, it doesn’t get hot or difficult to handle. The Torch has a digital display which indicates the temperature setting and tells you if the device is on or off, there’s also an LED that illuminates when the device is turned on. The power cable is really long, around 10 feet, which is always useful.

I’m not sure why they went with this specific screen design, I find the holes to be quite large and if you stir the load when it’s on your water piece, you can end up with little bits of flower in the water, which can be tough to clean in certain pieces.

The TerpTorch is designed to be used with a water piece, you can’t use it by itself unless you want to suck directly on the adapter, which I definitely wouldn’t recommend.

The glass bowl is pretty big and the nice thing is that you can see your flower getting vaporized which is really helpful. If you only want to fill it halfway, that is no problem and it works well. If you want to go with a microdosing approach, just put a little bit of flower in the bowl, but make sure you use the included tool to tamp it down. If you have a full bowl you can get away without tamping it down, but the smaller the bowl you have, the more beneficial it becomes.

According to the display the heat up time is very fast, but it definitely needs time before it’s ready to be used. The ceramic rod can provide the heat quickly, but once the heat has had time to permeate the glass balls you’re going to get way better results, regardless of what temperature you have it set to. I would let it absorb the heat for at least three minutes, but five is an even better idea.

If the device is still turned on but has gone into sleep mode, I usually set a timer on my watch for two minutes to let it reheat to that perfect temperature before I hit it again.

As a full convection vaporizer you can get absolutely exceptional flavor from the Terp Torch. The torch directs a stream of convection air onto your material, which is sitting on the screen and encased in glass, so you are getting a super clean air path and tremendous, pure flavor. Because the device is pure convection the effects match the flavor. When I was first getting into this one it floored me a few times. Convection vapes just hit differently and you will have no problem getting to whatever level you prefer with this one.

Finally, the efficiency is top notch, as long as you give your bowl a stir, although I don’t really like to stir it because I end up with too much flower in my water piece due to the larger screen holes. So what I do is wait for the piece to cool down, remove the Keck Clip, then take your bowl and tap the side to give it a complete stir. The tamping tool helps to get the most efficiency, as it makes sure the air has to pass through your flower; just keep stirring and tamping.