Welcome to DIY or die. Holiday season is coming upon us. Time for gifts and gift giving and I want to put out my buyers guide for DIY e-liquid mixers. We're gonna talk about 10 items, my first item. This bad boy is the K-Visal from Ikea. It is a drawer. I get asked this all the time. What are the drawers behind you? They are the K-Visal. Now I will have links down in the description and most of them are affiliate links. So if they're from Amazon then they are in affiliate link. I get a little kickback if you use those links. You don't have to. Nonetheless these are from Ikea and they're 20 bucks each. So that's really not that bad, especially for mixers who don't have dozens and dozens of flavoring lines that they need to fill up. If you only need a couple of these you're really not spending much money. It's not the perfect solution but it is a cheap affordable solution. Overall I've been very pleased with this system. I use each drawer for a different flavoring company and then I lay them down flat by alphabetical order and just quicker cleanup, quicker cleanup, quicker flavor discovery. I don't have to spend too much time looking for flavorings. I mean well if you watch live mixing you'll know. Some of them aren't in these shelves just yet. I'm gonna buy a few more this holiday season and you'll know that it takes me a while to find some flavorings. So they need to get into some shelves and hopefully this helps you guys out. The next item is the LB501 scale. I mean everyone has this. There's a few that might not know what the scale is. It's the standard. It's the one that everyone uses. It's only 35 but I think it's actually 30 bucks on Amazon. If you go to Liquor Bar and you can get a scale kit which gives you some bottles as well for 35 bucks and it's just a phenomenal scale. It's durable. I mean I've never changed the batteries in either of them and I've had them for years. Super durable, super efficient, very accurate. It's not again, it's not the most high quality, most precise scale out there but it gets the job done and it takes a beating which is nice for me because I break a lot of things. Get this for someone who wants to get into mixing but has been using syringes and pipettes. It's a very inefficient method that takes a lot of cleanup time. I promise you they will thank you if you get this for them. Now this wouldn't be a DIY or a die video without some shilling involved, right? But I do want to recommend my Enyaal Rec Law One-Shots as well as my tastemaker One-Shots from Liquor Barne. The Enyaal Rec Law One-Shots are all classics like Roda Knight, pistachio RY for you, Obsidian, Rose Milk. Those are all delicious recipes that I've developed and turn them into easy to mix flavoring concentrates that you just pour into your base and you're good to go. These are great for people who haven't gotten into mixing yet. They're thinking about it or people who want to get into mixing, want to get their hands dirty but don't want to deal with flavor development. They just want to get the process down or even mixtures who just don't feel like developing recipes all the time. They just want something quick and simple to mix up. I mean I have such a variety. Anyone can have any sort of flavor that they like. Their cheap 10 bucks will mix up around 300 mils. I got to recommend them. I got to recommend them. They are a great great gift option. Next I want to recommend the Vornado. This is a little bit more expensive of a gift. It's around a hundred. How much is it? It's around a hundred eighty dollars. So it's up there in terms of gifts. But this is great for people who they might not they have limited use in their hands or their arms. Right? Whether they're elderly, they have arthritis, whether it is that they you know maybe they don't have hands or arms. They just can't use their limbs functional and constantly shake bottles back and forth all day. Every day. This is great for those people and I highly recommend it to anyone who's starting to feel aches and pains in their elbows. Maybe you know you're getting whatever that what is it called? Tendonitis or Elbow, Elbow, Nitis? Nonetheless it's a great option to limit all of that motion. It's not the best. I do want to recommend something else that is a little bit more expensive at around 300 dollars. It's not one that I own but it's one that I've used. It's the one that a lot of people buy and that is the Vortex Genie 2. It is a much more powerful version of this and it will mix up more than you know 15 to 30 miles. It'll mix up big batches. What's also cool about the Vortex Genie 2 is that you can replace the heads and put different heads that accommodate different bottle types. So there are different options out there for people who can't they're either mixing a lot right they're shaking a lot. They just can't they can't do it anymore. Next I want to recommend the Flavura to back and list assortment. Now this is an assortment of flavorings from Flavura that involves all of their tobaccos. Flavura is one of the leading flavoring companies in the vaping industry and they are certainly the leading company when it comes to tobaccos. Their tobaccos are second to none. They're delicious and I highly recommend you pick up all of them. You pick up their assortment pack. You can get it over at their website for $70 but you can also get it at both city flavors for 50 bucks. They're just sold out right now. They said that they will be restocking them in the future. So I do want to put that out there. You can get a little bit cheaper at both city. But yes I can't put a buyer's guide without Flavura tobaccos on the list because they are so much fun. They're all really really delicious but they're all very accurate and they're all very easy to mix together. If you're someone who's looking to get into tobaccos or no someone that's looking to get into tobaccos, I you can't recommend anything else. You can only recommend the Flavura tobaccos to back an ass assortment. So get it for them and I promise you they're going to be very very happy because they're going to kickstart them into this fun tobacco development realm. Alright everyone. Future Wayne here. I made a mistake. A big mistake in my last video. I actually got the RDA's mixed up. So last night I was looking at the comments and I saw a comment from someone saying, hey I thought you hated the wasp and I thought to myself, why would they say that? Why I thought I did nothing but praise the wasp. It makes no sense to me that they would say that. And then I remembered, oh wait a second, I do hate the wasp. It was the pixie that that that I love. It's the pixie that I called the best cheap reference RDA. Not the wasp. Maybe it's because the wasp is just more popular and I hear about it a lot more. I think that's the reason and it just stuck in my head. I haven't used either in about a year. So it's been it's been quite a while and I just got the mixed up. The pixie is that that reference RDA that I was talking about. Since I'm cutting that out I'll go through it again but a lot of mixers, new mixers, they don't have the right sort of hardware to do testing and to really analyze their recipes well. And unfortunately if you want a good reference RDA like a good reference pair of headphones you kind of have to spend some money to get a good one and they're kind of hard to get. Fortunately there is the vape fly pixie which I found to to give reference flavor. It's very similar to a citadel though it is a little bit more constricted. It's not dual air flows that does cause a little bit of an imbalance on the draw. Nonetheless the flavor is very accurate. It's very flat and neutral in a good way and because it's so closed down and it's so slim down you do get a lot of saturation. So it's great for checking out flavors and checking out recipes to really you know find and analyze those little accents and subtleties of a recipe. I definitely highly recommend this RDA especially for those who want that reference analytical hardware but at a budget price. And I like to pair the pixie up with a fuse-claptin which I'm going to recommend as a gift as well. In my opinion fuse-claptins take that analytical flavor and they just amplify it. They just provide a lot more saturation. In the pixie plenty of room for a fuse-claptin you're going to be able to get excellent saturation vibrance as well as reference neutral flavor that allows you to dive deep and analyze your recipes in the way that you need to. One of my favorite purchases as a mixer has been my P-touch. My brother P-touch labeler which is a very unfortunate name. Excellent labeler very very easy to use. I mean it's pretty much dead simple. It comes with ink, ink paper with it. The labels they don't come off, they don't slip off and they don't rub off either so you can get them what. I mean these labels are excellent. Very happy with the labeler 35 bucks and you can... it's just perfect for anyone who does a lot of batching or anyone who does a lot of testing. They can just print out labels really really quickly and you know they're not going to get confused with all the different batches anymore. One of my favorite purchases I have to recommend an excellent gift again super cheap. And last but not least have to show one more time and recommend my DIY or die vaping.com membership which gives you complete access to all of the content that I've provided. I mean it's three bucks a month is less than one flavoring a month. You can also purchase it for 30 bucks a year. Tons and tons of content over on the website. From flavor nose to tutorials to buyers guides like this to podcasts and videos. There's just so much content over there that you're going to get that return on the investment and any new mixer or advanced mixer a like is going to enjoy it. New content every single day. New flavor notes all the time. It's just a great way to get someone really embedded into the mixing scene. Alright this is my list. I hope you guys enjoy this video. If you did please leave a like and also subscribe if you want to see more videos like this. Don't forget to head over to my website DIY or dievaping.com. Go pick up a membership and also don't forget to follow me over on Twitter and Instagram at DIY or dievaping. I'll catch you all later. Keep mixing. Much love. Peace.