Gordona Vapes DIY Website is UP!

submitted over 9 years ago by thedirtyprojectorMixologist

For those who are unaware, Gordona Vapes website is now up and running. He used to be a vendor but recently made the tough decision to cease online sales due to the upcoming FDA regulations. Instead he has chosen to focus his efforts on churning out great quality DIY content to help aspiring DIY-ers.

So far, he has released 2 recipes (Groolberry Creamcake and Charlie's Unicorn) along with some very informative videos. The website is clean, the content is clear and concise and Marshall just seems like an overall nice guy.

I can really see Gordona Vapes taking off as an educational hub for DIY ejuice, something like DIYorDIE is today.

P.S. I'm not affiliated with Gordona in any way. Just want to send some support and direct traffic to help a nice guy with great content

P.P.S. It's pronounced ME-RANG, not ME-REN-GAY.

Comments

8 points

by gordonavapesover 9 years ago

Mare-ing-ay! :-P

Thanks, for the correction and the love. :-)

I'm sure their will be many more foibles to come.

2 points

by aftli_workover 9 years ago

For awhile, for some reason, I just never connected "meringue" with what I knew to be pronounced "merang". I was saying "mer-in-gue" in my head before I realized.

3 points

by gordonavapesover 9 years ago

Lol. That's exactly it.

If I was talking with a friend about a lemon meringue cookie I'd pronounce it correctly, but 99% of my flavoring knowledge has been collected and cataloged in text or in my head where my default setting is American phonetic pronunciation.

Speaking of lemon meringue cookies, I should brush off that work in progress recipe. :-)

2 points

by aftli_workover 9 years ago

Please do! Loving this so far.

And yeah, like, I didn't even think "mer-in-gue" was "merang", thought it was a completely different thing altogether.

2 points

by thedirtyprojectorover 9 years agoOne of "The Damned"

Nah, don't worry about it dude. Just pulling your leg because I recalled Mr. DIYORDIE pronouncing it wrong in the past.

Have some suggestions for you and your future content:

a detailed flavoring book (something like DIYORDIE is doing, which gives some brief detail of each manufacturer's flavoring, you could charge a subscription for people to access the book)
steep time for a flavor. i noticed you are lacking that in your videos or recipes
recommended PG/VG ratio
clone attempts/ recipes of popular vendors
Flavor pairings
Use flavor percentages instead of ratios (as seen on this thread, a lot of people are not accustomed to ratios)

2 points

by thedirtyprojectorover 9 years agoOne of "The Damned"

/u/gordonavapes

2 points

by sc0lm00over 9 years ago

Marshall is one of the coolest dudes I've had the pleasure to converse with. That Groolberry Cream Cake is stellar as well.

2 points

by planetofvapesover 9 years ago

What flavor % are you guys going to try these recipes at?

I'm thinking 15% to start

1 points

by thedirtyprojectorover 9 years agoOne of "The Damned"

> In my experience this flavor is ideal in a tank at 18%-24% of the final mixture.

Well, I typically use a tank so 18%-24%

1 points

by crosstown_rebelover 9 years agoIn a good mood for now - don't piss me off.

I would think in a griffin with claptons still keep it at dripper percentages. Whats the maths on coverting the base to a recipe, if I don't wanna make a full base to make several bottles?

2 points

by gordonavapesover 9 years ago

If you're rocking one of those crazy newfangled tanks, then dripper ratios are what I'd recommend. I'm slow to upgrade so my personal reference for tank is still the subtank.

I'm working on a recipe dump post for everything at my initial percentages that'll go up sometime today, that'll make it a simple division calculation to get it where you want it. :-)

1 points

by gordonavapesover 9 years ago

Also, you should be able to set your calculator to the total flavoring amount you'd want in one bottle and use the base percentages. For example, for 10% of a 30ml bottle set your "total amount" variable to 3ml and use the base percentages.

1 points

by planetofvapesover 9 years ago

But what percent? You can't make a recipe with a range :p

2 points

by cjinctover 9 years ago

I usually start at the lowest rec %, no sense using more flavoring than you have to and it's easier to add a bit more than try to dilute down

2 points

by chewymidgetover 9 years agoProud Sidebar Reader!

Posting the recipes here for convenience. Percentages adjusted for a single mix instead of making a flavor base. I also rounded out the numbers to the nearest tenth. The rest of the bunch are "Coming Soon".

Strawberry Custard

4.5% - CAP Sweet Strawberry

1.8% - TFA Strawberry (Ripe)

1.4% - CAP French Vanilla V2

1.4% - TFA Vanilla Swirl

0.68% - FA Meringue

0.33% - TFA Orange Cream

Blueberry Cheesecake

4% - CAP New York Cheesecake

3.1% - TFA Blueberry Wild

1.1% - TFA Graham Cracker Clear

.80% - FA Bilberry

.70% - TFA Bavarian Cream

.40% - CAP French Vanilla V2

1 points

by goldfish18over 9 years ago

Care to explain how you used your brain to figure this out? I don't feel like using my brain right now because it's Friday :)

1 points

by chewymidgetover 9 years agoProud Sidebar Reader!

When converting a flavor base to a single mix you simply move the decimal over to the left by one digit. Vise Versa to create a flavor base.

3 points

by goldfish18over 9 years ago

Hmm are you sure? I know that when I made a 30 mL flavor base for my ADV with 4 ingredients (7%, 1.5%, 2.5%, and 0.1%) I took each percentage, divided them by the total flavor percentage (11.1%), then multiplied by 100. For example 7 divided by 11.1 is 0.6306 times 100 is 63.06%

Just making sure that I'm not making any mistakes with my own recipes.

Edit: Ok I'll try to use my brain now. If we take Groolberry Creamcake and say we're going for 18% then wouldn't the recipe be as follows?

CAP NY Cheesecake 0.395 times 18 = 7.11% (rounded to 7%)

TFA BBW 0.308 times 18 = 5.544% (rounded to 5.5%)

TFA GCC 0.11 times 18 = 1.98% (rounded to 2%)

FA Bilberry 0.077 times 18 = 1.38% (rounded to 1.25 - 1.5%)

TFA Bav Cream 0.066 times 18 = 1.188% (rounded to 1 - 1.25%)

CAP FVv2 0.044 times 18 = 0.792% (rounded to 0.8%)

Is that right?

1 points

by WickAndWireover 9 years agoMixologist

They've got some very interesting combos. Subscribing for sure!

1 points

by lumberjawshover 9 years ago

This is great. Charlie's Unicorn is too good to let slip away. Fingers crossed for The Lord and Mr Peanut Butter

1 points

by piggymonsterover 9 years ago

This is going to be a paid sub service in the future? Is my memory correct here?

1 points

by thedirtyprojectorover 9 years agoOne of "The Damned"

Not sure about that. He has stated he has few plans for monetization down the pipeline but as of right now, he just wants to focus on coming up with high quality content.

2 points

by piggymonsterover 9 years ago

Gotcha, it's interesting to see the direction DIY (possibly now morphing into flavor crafting for profit?) is going in light of the FDA shenanigans. Not that there's anything wrong with making a profit off what you're good at and/or love, but ya, change is inevitable and we're just seeing the beginning of it.

1 points

by probywan1337over 9 years agoI will rip you a new one if you don't use the sidebar & search.

Nice and clean looking site. The recipes look pretty decent too. Can't wait to see how this shapes up going forward.

1 points

by bigbruiseover 9 years ago

Great looking set up this guy's got going on. However, don't really want to make a base of a flavor I've never tried.

1 points

by Hydroxus_over 9 years agoI will rip you a new one if you don't use the sidebar & search.

Just make enough base for a 10 ml tester ?

1 points

by elephantrainbowsover 9 years agoOne of "The Damned"

Platano en culo

O.o

1 points

by goldfish18over 9 years ago

To convert these flavor base percentages to a recipe percentage all you have to do is take each ingredient's percentage, divide it by 100 then multiply that number by your desired total flavoring percentage. Do this for each ingredient and either round up or down. For example at 15% total flavoring it would be as follows:

Groolberry Creamcake

CAP NY Cheesecake 39.5% divided by 100 = 0.395 times 15 = 5.93% (rounded to 6%)

TFA BBW 30.8% divided by 100 = 0.308 times 15 = 4.62% (rounded to 4.5%)

TFA GCC 11% divided by 100 = 0.11 times 15 = 1.65% (rounded to 2%)

FA Bilberry 7.7% divided by 100 = 0.077 times 15 = 1.16% (rounded to 1%)

TFA Bav Cream 6.6% divided by 100 = 0.066 times 15 = 0.99% (rounded to 1%)

CAP FVv2 4.4% divided by 100 = 0.044 times 15 = 0.66% (rounded to 0.5%)

Total flavoring percentage = 15%

By the way, this recipe looks tasty and I'm looking forward to seeing the recipe for Plantano In Ass!

-4 points

by vapingatfiftyover 9 years ago

> P.P.S. It's pronounce ME-RANG, not ME-REN-GAY.

I cringed.