This basic guide on taking your first dabs should get you on the road to dabbing experimentation, enjoyment, and refinement. That's what it's all about! It'll take time to pick up all of the nuances of concentrates, master dabbing techniques, and the expression of artful consumption exhibited by a longtime dabber, but you will certainly be well on your way after this brief tutorial on how to take your first dabs.

Putting together your first dabbing kit can be daunting, but our mission here as dabbing specialists is to provide you with ready made and tested dabbing kits that will outfit you for instant success and great dabs, but we also hope to empower you with the information and guidance you need to branch out on your own and create personalized setups for your dabbing sessions.

Vaping cartridges and topping off joints with cannabis concentrates are common ways to consume cannabis concentrates, but these methods are also not considered dabbing. These practices lack the rich, full bodied taste of terpenes, and the powerful impact of an authentically taken dab.

Dabbing  involves vaporizing potent cannabis concentrates known as "dabs." These concentrates, extracted meticulously from cannabis flowers, result in highly potent oils categorized as shatter, wax, crumble, rosin, or sauce based on their consistency and extraction method.

As a possible newcomer to this method of cannabis consumption, you may initially feel a sense of unfamiliarity or even intimidation. But fear not, because we are here to provide expert guidance and support to help you become a skilled dabber in no time.

How to Keep Your Dab Nail In Pristine Condition!

Please note that these instructions will work to clean and maintain titanium nails.

New/Clean Banger Instructions

[Q-Tip & Isopropyl Tech]

Isopropyl Alcohol, and its fumes are very flammable! Keep large amounts of isopropyl alcohol far away from your dab station and torch! Keep any open amounts of ISO under a lid to prevent fumes from floating freely. Also, torches and their flames get very hot! Proceed with caution and attention.

Clean Your Dab Nail After Every Dab!

Yes, you should clean your quartz nail after every dab! This seems like a big commitment, but it’s one of the best changes you can make in your dabbing game if you don’t already do this. Trust me on this. You deserve to make the most of your time, effort, and money with every dab! We've all dabbed from dirty nails before, but it's no way to live. So, here’s how to make this improvement, quickly, every time. Your banger, lungs, and terpy taste buds will thank you!

1. Q-Tip Tech [Method 1]: Use a combination of clean and isopropyl
   
   alcohol-soaked cotton swabs to clean out the interior surface of your banger after each dab. It may take several swabs to get the job done well. Begin with clean, dry swabs to remove any residual oil left over, work the bottom edges and the inner surface area well, and then follow up with multiple swabs that have been soaked in isopropyl alcohol. Let the banger cool down before you begin this process, but not too much. This works best when the quartz nail is still pretty warm. Method 1 alone is often enough to keep your quartz banger nice and clean. These instructions suit standard bucket-style quartz bangers, but if you have a quartz banger terp slurper, you may want to use Method 2, below.
2. A Quick Swabbing & Immediate ISO Dual-Stage Bath Technique [Method 2]: If you want to use fewer swabs, prevent waste, and don’t mind using more isopropyl alcohol, you’ll want to try this dual-stage soak technique after every dab. After your dab, use one swab to clean any residual wax left in the quartz nail. Have two previously prepared clean containers filled with enough isopropyl alcohol to soak your quartz banger. You can place something under the container to pool the ISO into one side to make it deeper, using less overall. Let the quartz banger cool before you quickly swab it and then dunk the quartz nail into the waiting pool of ISO. Make sure it is completely submerged. After being in that first bath for some time (longer for great results, less if you’re in a hurry), place the now precleaned quartz banger into the second waiting ISO bath. After the second soak, a good rinsing is necessary. Then, dry your quartz dab nail with swabs until it’s mostly dry. Ensure you haven’t missed large water droplets before torching the rest to finish drying.

Periodic Maintenance

1. Long Isopropyl Alcohol Soak: If you’ve kept up on your quartz banger’s maintenance by swabbing it out after every dab, you may still find a slight brown haze creeping up over time, but never fear, do a maintenance soak in Isopropyl alcohol and then dry your nail thoroughly. Use cotton swabs to dry out most of the water, then lightly torch it here and there to finish it up so it’s ready for use! If the desired effect was not achieved, proceed with step #2 below.
2. Controlled Burn-Off: If you've been keeping your banger clean after every dab, but you still notice that there is a light, creeping, brown color appearing on your quartz, it's time to burn it off gently. Torch those spots and keep the end of the flames on the spots you see. Let them get torched off and you'll see clear quartz again. Be light on the torch, move often, come and go, and do this in rounds to be gentler on the quartz, trying to not overheat it.

Emergency Cleaning—There's Patches of Black!

1. Carefully Scrape Out Crud: Use a metal dab tool to scrape off black accumulation carefully. We don’t want to heat this crud and inhale whatever is produced, so getting rid of it and maintaining a clean nail for every dab is desirable and highly recommended!
2. Controlled Burn-Off: If a cleaning, or many, are forgotten or go wrong, or if the residual residue is already chazzed (been heated up and adhered to the quartz—looks dark/black) into the interior surface, you need to heat your banger to around 600-800, gently, moving around and aiming to get the stained areas piping hot, but not too hot. You’ll see the crud get red as it reaches its burn-off temperature. Vary the angle of the flame and distribute the heat around the surface area, returning to areas that need more time under heat to be cleaned. It’s better to do multiple rounds of this step until the residue is completely burned off to protect your banger from overheating. Overheating your banger can cause it to be cloudy looking afterward. Our goal is to do this only once or occasionally as needed.

Read this article to learn how to properly clean and care for your dab rig, bong, or water pipe. Your dabs should be tastier, more enjoyable, and healthier!

“If you take care of your equipment, your equipment will take care of you!”

(--Quote Courtesy of The U.S. Army & My Dad.)

 

Follow Steps 1-3 Below if your dab rig, water pipe, or bong is new or is kept very clean already.

New or Already Clean Glass Instructions

[Hot Water Rinse, Isopropyl Alcohol Bath, & Final Rinse]

Change Your Water & ISO Soak Often!

If you just bought a new dab rig, bong, or water pipe, you want to keep it clean and well-maintained from the start. It’s much easier this way, and your glass can stay looking nice and provide tasty rips for years to come. Read on to learn the steps!

1. Flush Your Water & Rinse Multiple Times:
   1. Run your sink water until it is hot!
   2. Carefully hold your glass piece, dump out the water, and rinse it well several times with the hot water from your tap. You may see yellow boogers or dabbing slime exit the glass. This is good!
   3. You may want to use our Bubbler Brush Cleaning Kit to scrub your joint area, down stem, and mouthpiece. Your goal is a thorough hot rinse and scrub to get the cleaning off to a good start and to help your isopropyl alcohol bath not get instantly dirty.
2. Isopropyl Alcohol Shake & Soak:
   1. [Prep. Step] Have an isopropyl-filled bath prepared for your glass piece. The higher the % ISO, the better!
   2. Fill (leave a little room for movement inside) your dab rig, bong, or water pipe about 45-65% with isopropyl alcohol and plug the ends. Carefully invert, wiggle, and shake the glass piece around to get the isopropyl alcohol moving inside the glass piece to create scrubbing-like action from the motion of the liquid and captured air. Dump this out into a separate container for later use if desired. I recommend not putting this used alcohol into your clean ISO bath.
   3. Soak your baby in your prepared bath of high-octane isopropyl alcohol! It would be best to have a large container for your piece to lay in. You’ll be able to determine the best soak time for your needs after some practice, but I recommend giving it 45-60 min and making sure periodically that all inner surfaces are getting soaked. Change the positioning every 10-15 minutes to soak the piece's inner and outer surfaces if needed. I often lean my container up using blocks to make it deeper in one end.
3. Final Rinse Multiple Times:
   1. Use cool tap water to rinse your rig out thoroughly. This will leave it pleasantly cool to the touch if used soon.
   2. If you want to keep your functional glass art piece clear of mineral deposits, fill your piece with distilled water to flush out the tap water used earlier to keep mineral deposits. This keeps the “creep”, or some 'heady' term like that, from occurring, making a noticeably white tint appear inside the piece. The goal is to flush out minerals in the tap water you rinsed with earlier. After I rinse with cool tap water, I’ll fill the whole piece with distilled water, pour it out, fill it again, and pour it out. This ensures that any minerals are flushed out, and my glass will stay clearer over time

*If mineral deposits are present inside or outside of your glass piece, soak or clean it with a 1:1 solution of distilled water and vinegar to remove the mineral deposits. You can also spray on this solution and wipe the external surfaces of your piece to remove mineral deposits.

 

Follow steps 1-4 below if your dab rig, water pipe, or bong is disgrossting! (Misspelled word blend above intended! -- Disgusting X Gross!)

Nasty Dirty Glass Cleaning Instructions

[Hot Water Rinse, Salt & ISO Shake, Extended Isopropyl Alcohol Bath, & Final Rinse]

You’ve Been Slacking Hard; We’ve All Been There!

Your dab rig, water pipe, or bong is straight-up nasty! WTH man? It’s black, smells terrible, and is likely seeding some of the same bacteria that first inhabited the Earth. You can’t enjoy what we love most using equipment like that. Here’s how to cut through the nasty and reclaim good taste and enjoyment!

1. Flush Your Water and Gunk Out—Hot Pre-Rinse Multiple Times:
   1. Run your hot sink water until it is hot!
   2. Carefully hold your glass piece, dump out the water, and rinse it well several times with the hot water from your tap. You may see yellow boogers or dabbing slime exit the glass. This is good!
   3. Your goal is a thorough hot rinse to get the cleaning off to a good start and to help your isopropyl alcohol bath not get dirty instantly.
2. Salt & Isopropyl Alcohol Shake Jam:
   1. Fill your glass piece about 50% complete with isopropyl alcohol, and then add about 2-3 tablespoons of table salt inside, down through the mouthpiece or joint. Or, use our 710 Advanced Cleaner. It works amazingly well for this step too!
   2. Shake, and shake well from multiple angles and directions. Over…and over! Watch what is happening inside to gauge how much gunk is being scraped and worked off the inside walls. The ISO loosens the sticky icky, and the salt helps scrub it off!
   3. Once it looks clean, dump the ISO and salt mix and rinse the piece to inspect it closely. If you still see more gunk, repeat steps #2a, and #2b until it looks nice and clean, or as good as it can get! You can also move ahead to step #3 and then return to steps #2a and #2b to see if there is an improvement.
3. Extended Isopropyl Alcohol Soak:
   1. [Prep. Step] Have an isopropyl-filled bath prepared for your glass piece. The higher the % ISO, the better!
   2. Fill (leave a little room for movement inside) your rig, bong, or water pipe about 50-75% with isopropyl alcohol and plug the ends. Carefully invert, wiggle, and shake the glass piece around to get the isopropyl alcohol moving around the glass piece to create scrubbing-like action from the motion of the liquid and captured air. Dump this out into a separate container for later use if desired. I recommend not putting this used alcohol into your clean, waiting ISO bath.
   3. Soak your baby in your prepared bath of high-octane isopropyl alcohol! A large container like this one is recommended. Soak your piece for several hours or more (depending on the conditions) and ensure periodically that all inner surfaces are getting soaked. Change the positioning every couple of hours to soak the piece's inner and outer surfaces if needed. I often lean my container to make it deeper in one end.
4. Final Rinse Multiple Times:
   1. Use cool tap water to rinse your rig out thoroughly. This will leave it pleasantly cool to the touch if used soon.
   2. If you want to keep your functional glass art piece clear of mineral deposits, fill and flush out the tap water you used earlier with distilled water. This keeps “creep” from occurring, making a noticeably white tint appear inside the piece. The goal is to flush out minerals in the tap water you rinsed with earlier. After I rinse with cool tap water, I’ll fill the whole piece with distilled water, pour it out, fill it again, and pour it out. This ensures that any minerals are flushed out, and my glass will stay clearer over time.

If you followed these nasty dirty steps and your glass water pipe, bong, or dab rig still doesn't look as nice as you'd like, try repeating the steps again and increasing time durations and shaking intensity.

*If mineral deposits are already present after step #1, but before your ISO bath, soak your piece in a 1:1 solution of distilled water and vinegar to remove the mineral deposits. You can also spray on this solution and wipe the external surfaces of your piece to remove mineral deposits.

In today’s video we will discuss the new Blender Bangers aka Blended Channel Bangers from The Dabbing Specialists & Dabbing Warehouse. We will walk you through How To use these bangers as well as How To properly heat up and cool down your blender before you dab, so you don’t end up wasting your concentrates because your banger was too hot or too cold. Then we have a few tips for proper cleaning and maintenance of you Blender Bangers 😤 and of course we did a big globb to show you how incredible these Blenders Really function 💯

Terp Slurper Tutorial

 

        So, you want in on the Terp Slurper Craze and don’t know where to start? Well, WE GOT YOU! I remember first researching “How to use a terp slurper,” and I didn’t have much luck on the subject. Most videos were just people jamming huge dabs into their Slurpers and didn’t help me much in answering the frequently asked questions - “How long do I heat up and cool down my terp slurper” or “when is the right time to drop my dab in a terp slurper?” All TERP SLURPERS AND TORCHES ARE NOT CREATED EQUAL, so keep in mind these times I mention might vary depending on your equipment, but this should give you a good baseline heat up and cool down time to start with! I have seen so many videos showing people heating their bangers or terp slurpers until they were glowing red and then instantly dropped their dab in. This is SO WRONG and should NEVER be done. The point of dabbing is to VAPORIZE your concentrate not to combust it. I like to use a baseline of 60 seconds of heat up time, spreading the heat around the terp slurper as best you can, focusing the heat on the bottom dish and center tube. I then like to wait about 40-60 seconds for the banger to cool down before dropping in the dab. The longer you wait, the less vapor production (cloud size) you will get, BUT the lower temps will allow the terpenes (cannabis flavonoids) in our extracts to survive and give us a better-tasting dabbing experience.

        To elaborate on that, if you drop your dab at a higher temp, it can burn off the terpenes, and then we don’t get those flavors we would want at lower temps. Some would say the negatives to these lower temp dabs are that sometimes you don’t get as big of a cloud, and physical effects can be slightly lighter. Another thing you need to consider is the TEXTURE of the dabs you're using. If you try to dab diamonds, you might need to drop them at a higher temp because the diamonds take a little more heat to melt than, say, a more buttery type concentrate. All of these variables play a role in getting that perfect Terp Slurper dab, but the most important thing, in my opinion, is to have fun with it! For real, though! Have fun, and don’t worry, it’s just a Quartz banger, and it was made for you to heat up & cool down, so don’t baby it, heat that banger up, and GO FOR IT! I hope this tutorial and video help you in your next Terp Slurping or Dabbing experience! Please share this video and follow The Dabbing Specialists & Steve on social media at:

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Fact: Nobody likes dabbing out of a dirty nail. Who wants resin clogging up your nail to the point where you can't even take a decent pull? In addition to poor airflow, carcinogens are most prevalent in wax resin. Even our renowned 99.4% pure titanium hardware can offer a horrible dab when left unkempt. That's why you clean your equipment.

Everybody cleans their hardware differently. Of course, some methods are better and healthier than others. But what's the best way? Check out the video below to find out!

How To: Clean Titanium Hardware

Cleaning Your Titanium: A Step-by-Step Guide

Need more help? Read the steps below and you'll have your titanium looking brand new once more!

Step 1: Put Your Hardware in a Container

Of course, you'll need something to hold your tools while they soak. It's recommended that you don't use anything made of glass for this; one slip-up while you're cleaning, and you'll be picking shards of glass out of your nail for hours.

We instead recommend our Utensil Cleaning Jar due to its durable plastic construction so it won't break if dropped and its 16 oz storage capacity which gives plenty of space to work with. It's also great for cleaning smaller glass pieces like bowls, pipes, and chillums. If you're strapped for cash, however, any plastic container, or even a ziplock bag will do the trick although if your use a bag, be sure to watch it more closely to make sure the bag doesn't leak or open.

Step 2: Add Your Cleaning Product

Next, you're going to want to fill the container with your cleaning product until all the titanium is submerged. We use the Formula 710 Advanced Cleaner because it strips tools of any leftover wax like nothing else in the market. Another plus is that Formula 710 is reusable, earth-friendly, and biodegradable, so you'll never feel bad pouring it down a drain. If you're looking for a cheaper solution, isopropyl with added salt is a great option. Note that isopropyl does take longer to clean your hardware, though.

Once you add your cleaning solution, let your hardware soak for a few hours. Depending on how dirty your tools are and what solution you're using to clean them, you may be able to skip this step.

Step 3: Shake that S***!

To remove the resin, you're going to want to shake the container well. This allows the abrasive materials in the solution to rub against your tools and take off the leftover wax. For the best results, we recommend vigorously shaking the container for up to 10 minutes to remove all the excess material. After sufficient shaking, go ahead and pour out your solution. If you're using Formula 710, then you can pour the solution back into its bottle for future use.

Step 4: Use Cleaning Tools to Remove Leftover Product

If you feel like your titanium is already sufficiently clean, then feel free to skip this step. If you want to be thorough, this step is a must. While soaking your tools cleans most of the wax off them, there's usually still some left in the hard-to-reach parts of the hardware. While our cleaner brushes and titanium scraper and scooper are the best tools for this, you can also use Q-tips and/or alcohol pads.

Step 5: The Final Rinse

Lastly, soak your titanium hardware in rubbing alcohol for as long as you see fit. This will deep clean your tools and sanitize them.

Afterwards, rinse with warm water to remove whatever product is leftover as well as residue from your cleaning products.

Looking for More Ways to Clean Your Titanium? Check out these articles!

Herbco: 3 Ways to Clean Your Dab Nail

Leafly: How to Clean a Dab Rig Nail

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