Stash / keif sifter Box

[Guest]

Hey all,

I'm a fairly new grower, started late last year, and have about 10 harvested plants under my belt. (Bagseed, Shiva Shanti & Master Kush). Pretty happy with results so far - but hey, things can only get better.

So, I currently have a bit of trim - some from bagseed, some from Shiva Shanti (really frosty!), and the odd popcorn buds.

I've made a bit of Ice hash, using just the old shake the jar method - came out OK, not a lot of it . Made some QWISO - not to my liking. Love scissor/finger hash. (I'm older, but spent lots of time travelling in India in the mid '70s to early '80s, and I LOVE charas, and all types of hash. Lately I've only been betting Moroccan while in Spain.)

I'm going to keep on trying different hash methods - next up is to get some screen and sift either buds or the frosty Shiva Shanti trim.

But enough about me

So I've seen a few of those Stash / keif collector boxes - love the one that Gypsy sells - and am considering it.
Question: What else is out there - like cheaper? I've seen a few things online, or peoples pictures of their boxes, but WHERE online can I get a reasonably (cheap?) stash box? Just love the idea that after crumbling buds for a while, I can get some pure keif to press.

Any pics of stash boxes, brand names or Web sites would be appreciated.
I'm in the US, so would prefer a US shipper, but I'm not ruling out Europe. (I travel there a bit - at least once a year - though mostly to Spain.)

Thanks in advance for any tips

DonnyB

 

[Sleepy]

Hi, DonnyB.

do you have the book Hashish by Robert Connell Clark??

he talks a lot about charas and all other ways to make hash. great book.

Bubblebags seem to be the most efficent wet extraction. There are some reasonably priced tumblers available for automated dry sifting.
Stash boxes and Bubblebags are both available at SeedBay.>seedBay

if you are handy, you could fashion something at home for less $$$

enjoy whatever you may find! :smile:

 

[Guest]

Sleepy... (I need to wake up :smile: )

Thanks for the reply.

Don't have that book, but have heard good things about it.

Yeah, I may make a dry sifter with screening... but I saw some posts SOMEWHERE??? showing some really "cute" smaller stash boxes.

I may get that tumbler at okief.com, or just build a frame myself.

I'm familiar with seedbay... and am VERY tempted by Gypsy's boxes...
Time will tell... but I will certainly "enjoy".

Don

 

[Guest]

This guy makes awesome boxes, and is a helluva nice guy to boot.
http://www.exoticzombie.com/
peace
~gm

he's on ebay also... search "kief box"

 

[Guest]

Thanks for the Zombie Tip.

I had run across those searching and they look nice!!

For anyone who cares, these are the sites that I've found

Wicca Box at 1 percent
http://www.1percent.com/store/cart/RLWICCA.html?id=YYTkkHrt
http://www.1percent.com/store/cart/search.html?id=b4wUXh5x

Others (US)
http://www.herbsifter.com/wst_page5.html
http://bcboxes.com/
http://exoticzombie.com/home.html
http://www.rollies.com/Accessories2.asp?AccessoriesTypeNum=9&Title=Wood Containers


Non-US
UK - Gypsy's box (both colors) and a cheap one
http://www.everyonedoesit.com/online_headshop/productCategory.cfm?iProductCategoryID=132

Bubble Box (out of stock)
http://www.bubblebag.com/order/#warez

UK
http://www.wellcoolstuff.com/Merchant2/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Product_Code=CCB&Category_Code=P6
http://www.drchronic.com/products.asp?recid=646&catid=46
Those 2 ^^ look the same

Wicca at Shorty G's
http://tokecity.com/xcart/product.php?productid=16142&cat=0&page=1

Gypsy's boxes
http://www.stash-boxes.com/ - description only buy at
http://www.seedbay.com/browse.php?id=5

Space Case Grinder / sifter
http://www.wellcoolstuff.com/thestore/spacecase.html

So...
Being impatient, and wanting a US shipper, I'm expecting the Wicca (1st link above) to arrive today!!
I'd post a pic but.... maybe later....

Hope this might help someone else out.

D

 

[Guest]

what screen sizes are you using?

 

[Guest]

Wicca Screen Size

Wicca Screen Size

what screen sizes are you using?

I wish I knew! - the box came about 2 hrs after my last post!

Does anyone what screen size the Wicca Box has?

I gently ran about 1 oz of frosty trim and got about 3 g of blond kif. Nice!

I think it's a pretty fine mesh; I'll try a 2nd run with a bit of pressure, but I got a feeling that not much more will pass thru (though I can SEE that there's plenty of trichs left on the trim).

It's probably a good size mesh for it's intention, ie passsive collection.
I ground maybe 2 smallish buds over the screen and can see a nice dusting just from that.

Anyway, nice to get some kif so easily!

 

[Chamba]

Gypsy Nirvana's stash-boxes are the best quality and most impressive boxes available on the market ...friends of mine and myself own just about every model stash box! - I have the solid rosewood construction with rosewood veneer and a high gloss lacquer finish - the top of the range model..the mesh screen is 100 lines per inch (which is ideal for passive collection as you prepare your buds on the screen..and if gentle, you can actively dry sift the material with the scraping card or gently shake the screen frame together with the lid and glass collection plate )....matching rose wood grinder, GN scraping card ...

cigar humidors made to the same quality material, specs and finish would retail in the USD$200 range...you can buy GN stashboxes at auction on seedbay.com for around $100 plus shipping...an excellent price

I've used my Gypsy Nirvana stash-box hourly, daily for over 4 years (oops, I'm sounding a touch spammish now!) ......it's got a few scratches on it, I've patched a few minor holes in the mesh (small piece of sticky tape pressed over the hole from underneath) ..but with a bit of a clean up with furniture polish and scrape out inside - it still scrubs up nice!....the high gloss "piano" black lacquer finish over beechwood stash box is slightly lighter in weight so is much easier to heft around from table to lap.

but there are a few improvements I'd like to see - there is a gap on either side of the bottom of the screen frame where it meets the glass, this needs to be filled in to prevent any trics floating away when actively shaking, but that's not a problem when passively collecting kif or when carding with the frame inside the box.....and I feel the side storage area could be deeper and larger to handle more of my bits-n-pieces and other smoko stuff (never enough room!)...

many of the innovations first found in the range of GN's stash boxes are now found today in other boxes similar to Gypsy's....locks, side storage, scrapers, inner frame covers, matching grinders, high gloss lacquer finishes, non-scratching felt base and the idea of having a locking "high" level box suitable to keep all your smoking gear that is ergonomically correct for use on the lap or table that would appeal to smokers of fine herbs.........skinning up a spliff on a mag or frisbee is like eating off the floor after using a quality stash box like Gypsy's rose wood deluxe box...you'd be surprised just how much trichomes are wasted and lost on fingers and the floor....always use a grinder to break up your bud and always prepare your bud over a screen so zero resin heads are lost! ganja resin costs many times more than gold dust!

the wiccas have a 120 lpi mesh screen..which is idea for active dry sifting..but the screen area is much smaller. the Wicca boxes are based very closely on Gypsy's original stash-box designs.....Gypsy's limited edition grey stained bird's eye maple veneer boxes have a similar or finer mesh screen to the wiccas (Rezdog has one of these too, I think?)

 

[Chamba]

the kif boxes with the pull out drawer/trays are not the best idea as lots of resin dust gets stuck under and beside the pull out plate..and this is difficult to retrieve as well....

drawers and trichomes do not go well together!

 

[Guest]

the wiccas have a 120 lpi mesh screen..which is idea for active dry sifting..

Thanks for that!

BTW, Gypsys box was my 1st choice, but being impatient and in the US I was able to get the Wicca in 3 days. Love it.

May go to Amsterdam in the fall - and if I do I'll check out G's shop there.

Later...

DB

 

[Subversive]

Know what you mean about those escaping trichs there Chamba. I do all my prep over an old photo from high school that didn't turn out. The photo paper is nice & glossy so as to scrape when I'm in need of a boost. Think it might be time for a box though.

Preperation is everythin' as the Scouts say,

Subversive

 

[Guest]

Pollen (Kif) Press

Pollen (Kif) Press

Hello all!

Does anyone know where to buy one of the small "Pollen" presses, such as the "Space Case Press", the "MixNBall Presser II", or the "Brass Pollen Press" - a Space Case knock-off; in the US.

I've found these at UK and Canadian sites, but would prefer a US site.

Speaking of which, does anyone know where MixNBall.com ships from (I think UK).

The only place I know of, is Ebay (GratefulBuys); he has the full Space Case line. Never used Ebay, and have only heard negative feedback on using them.

Thanks in advance, and enjoy! "Smoke 'em if you got 'em!"

In order, Brass Case, Space Case, MixNBall....any others?







Links to these products (UK & Canada) available if anyone wants them.

DonnyB

 

[bubbleman]

Nice link on all those boxs that is great information for anyone interested on purchasing a kief box.
hey chamba, curious as to wether or not you've used our three screen box yet in your comparison of all the box's, Ours is currently the only box on the market that gives you three screens to work with in order to clean your resin to the point where it melts from purity>

give thanks
bubble man

 

[Guest]

three screen box

That is one BEAUTIFUL box.

I should note, that it IS now in stock - it had been out of stock when I posted above.

Don
Bubble Box (3 screen)

 

[tree hugger]

im fucing mad, cuz the prices on these motherfuckers are outragerous..

 

[Guest]

Expensive

Expensive

Yeah, the GOOD ones are expensive.

There are some cheaper ones (not as good) in the links I posted above.

I ended up spending $139 for the Wicca, and don't regret it one bit... in fact I'm quite happy with it

Peace

Don

 

[Chamba]

bubbleman - I saw the series of instruction photos for the boxes on your site..wouldn't it be easier to pick up the stack of screeen frames and shake the be-jesus out of it then use the card on the lower screens?

" have i tried your box?" - no, not yet!...but I have used homemade screens with fine and finer meshes...is there a next level to go to with an increase in the number of screen meshes? ( just like with the development of the bubble bags ) or is a triple frame box sufficient and a quad frame box would be overkill? is it basically a question of technique and starting material and 3 screen meshes to get the ultimate in dry sifted trics?

 

[bubbleman]

Hey chamba, well things are a little different when using multiple screens to dry sift than to wet wash> For instance, you can remove the resin by shaking that is not a problem, however when it comes to cleaning out the resin you have collected, of its capitate stalks and cystolith hairs, this won't be as efficient. These pieces need to be pushed thru a tight mesh, using a small card. The motion of the card will break all that is cellulose ie fibrous material, while leaving the gland heads sitting atop the final screen. What the multiple screens does for us, is it allows us by placing the herb on the top screen, to sift out the majority of the resin. however this second screen will be fairly contaminated due to the fact we are not using water as a transfer chamber. You can rub the good resin thru with the card, and produce a cleaner resin on the second screen. The final screen is where we clean out the resin of any contaminant what so ever. If you want you can take this to the level where the hash literaly melts into a liquid. I know one thing about smoking people's dry sift, it VERY RARELY melts into a liquid. So i figured why not offer a product that takes things to the next level and teach people how easy it is to clean the final product so its that much nicer.
I mean real the last picture in the bubblebox instructions shows it all. A blonde melty product created from a low quality resin.
As for the multipile screen questions. i never think of it as overkill. for me its all a learning experience, so the more screens i use, the more i can seperate things out and learn whats on the material im working with.
peace
bubble man

 

[Four Fingers]

Just received UPS notice that my Bubblebox is on it's way. So that makes three sets of Bubblebags, a Bubblebox, and a T-shirt. Great service, great products, and nice people! You stock it and I'll order it.
I'll post photos of the box when it gets here Friday.
Thanks B-man and Fresh Headies!

Forfingoz

 

[Snootch]

I won a Gypsy Deluxe Stash Box on Seedbay, sent out payment last week, and I cant wait till it gets here. Hopefully it will be right up there with my current favorite marijuana product, my vapordoc vaporizer.