From Camouflet
Quick Verdict
The Convector V2 and the Sticky Brick OG are both butane-powered convection vaporizers that pull genuinely excellent vapor from dry herb — but they do it differently, cost dramatically different amounts, and suit different users. If you want a beautifully crafted wooden heirloom piece and you're willing to invest time mastering a nuanced flame technique, the Sticky Brick OG earns its reputation. If you want comparable convection performance, a steeper learning curve on the flame side but a more forgiving draw mechanics, and you want to spend somewhere between $39 and $99 on your own terms, the Convector V2 is one of the most honest overachievers in portable vaping.
Camouflet Convector V2 Overview
The Convector V2 is a butane convection vaporizer built around a patent-pending precision heater design. Camouflet's core engineering claim is that the heater geometry controls airflow and thermal delivery in a way that produces consistent, repeatable convection hits without requiring the user to perform the same level of real-time flame choreography that most butane vaporizers demand. Heat-up time is effectively instantaneous — you're drawing within two to three seconds of applying the flame.
The chamber is designed for small-to-medium loads, roughly 0.1g to 0.2g, which suits on-demand session styles rather than long, slow group sessions. Draw resistance is low to moderate — there's enough back-pressure to give you tactile feedback that the airpath is doing something, but it doesn't punish you the way some tightly packed wood vapes can. Airflow is linear and predictable once you find your preferred butane distance and draw speed.
Vapor character from the Convector V2 leans cool and clean for a butane device, with strong terpene expression in the early draws. Extraction evenness is genuinely good — the convection-dominant heating means you're not getting scorched outer edges and a raw core the way you might with a poorly designed device. The heat distribution is designed to pass through the material, not just radiate at it from one side.
Build materials are functional rather than luxurious. The body is primarily aluminum with glass vapor path components. It won't win beauty contests against a hand-turned walnut Sticky Brick, but the all-glass vapor path means nothing off-gasses into your vapor and cleaning is straightforward. The Pay What You Can pricing — $39 minimum, up to $99 — is a genuine philosophical stance from Camouflet, not a gimmick. You're getting a device designed by people who care about vapor quality first and margin second.
Sticky Brick OG Overview
The Sticky Brick OG is a hand-built butane convection vaporizer from Sticky Brick Labs, priced around $165. It's been on the market long enough to develop a loyal community, and that loyalty is deserved. The device consists of a wooden body — typically walnut, oak, or cherry — housing a glass vapor path that runs from a hand-blown glass heater cover down through a mouthpiece. The aesthetic is genuinely striking: it looks like a small wooden instrument, and the craftsmanship in the wood joinery and glass work is evident the moment you hold one.
Heating is pure convection. You apply a torch flame to the glass intake cover, and hot air is drawn through your material by your inhalation. The critical variable is flame distance and draw speed — too close or too slow and you combust, too far or too fast and you get weak vapor. This is the Sticky Brick's defining characteristic: it rewards practice with exceptional vapor quality, but the learning curve is real. New users frequently combust on their first several sessions.
When dialed in, the Sticky Brick OG produces vapor that is rightfully praised across the community. Terpene expression is vivid — particularly in the lower temperature range — and the flavor in the first two or three draws can be genuinely remarkable. The thermal mass of the glass heater cover plays a role here: once it's warm from a previous hit, subsequent hits require slightly less flame time, and experienced users develop an almost intuitive feel for this thermal behavior.
Chamber capacity is moderate, loading roughly 0.15g to 0.25g comfortably. Draw resistance depends heavily on grind consistency and pack density, but a well-loaded OG has a medium draw resistance that feels satisfying. The all-wood, all-glass construction means there are no plastics or metals in the vapor path, which purists appreciate. The device is also fully rebuildable — glass components are replaceable, and the wood body will outlast most electronic devices made today if treated with reasonable care.
Head-to-Head: Vapor Quality
This is where the comparison gets genuinely interesting, because both devices are capable of producing excellent vapor — they just make different demands to get there.
The Sticky Brick OG at its peak is hard to beat for pure terpene expression. When an experienced user has the flame distance and draw speed perfectly calibrated for their specific torch, grind, and load size, the flavor in draws one and two is among the best you'll get from any portable vaporizer at any price. The fully convective heat delivery means the material is never sitting on a hot surface between draws, which protects terpenes from degrading passively. The glass vapor path contributes to flavor neutrality — no wood or metal notes intruding on the profile of your material.
The Convector V2 produces vapor that competes seriously in the same register. The patent-pending heater design achieves a similar all-convection thermal delivery, and the glass vapor path maintains the same flavor neutrality. Where the Convector V2 arguably has an edge is in consistency across users and sessions. Because the heater geometry does more of the work of distributing heat evenly through the load, the variance between a good hit and a great hit is smaller. You're less likely to get an uneven extraction — green on one side, toasted on the other — which is a real risk with the Sticky Brick OG if your technique isn't clean.
Extraction evenness is a meaningful metric for efficiency-minded users. The Convector V2's airflow geometry encourages more uniform heat penetration across the bowl, which means your ABV (already been vaped) material tends to come out a more consistent color. With the Sticky Brick OG, uneven extraction is more common until you've genuinely mastered the technique.
At high temperatures, both devices produce thick, satisfying vapor. The Sticky Brick OG's vapor can run slightly warmer at equivalent extraction depth, which some users prefer for the physical sensation of a dense hit. The Convector V2's vapor tends to run slightly cooler at comparable extraction, which preserves more volatile terpene fractions and is gentler on the throat for extended sessions.
Edge: Slight advantage to Sticky Brick OG at peak performance for experienced users. Advantage to Convector V2 for consistent, repeatable quality across skill levels.
Head-to-Head: Build Quality and Materials
The Sticky Brick OG wins this category on craftsmanship and material prestige, and it's not a close contest visually. The hand-turned wood bodies are genuinely beautiful objects. The joinery is tight, the glass components are hand-blown, and the overall assembly has the quality of something made by people who take pride in physical craft. Holding a walnut OG feels like holding a well-made wooden instrument. The device will age gracefully — wood develops patina, glass stays neutral, and there are no electronics to fail.
The Convector V2's aluminum and glass construction is clean and functional, but it isn't trying to be an aesthetic object. The build quality is solid — nothing feels cheap or fragile — but it won't provoke the same tactile admiration. The glass vapor path components are well-fitted, and the aluminum body is durable. It's a tool built to perform, not to impress on a shelf.
One practical consideration: the Sticky Brick OG's wood body, while beautiful, requires some care. Wood is sensitive to heat cycling and moisture, and the glass components — particularly the heater cover — are fragile and somewhat expensive to replace if broken. The Convector V2's metal body is more resistant to incidental damage, and the glass components, if they exist in your vapor path, are easier and cheaper to source or replace.
Both devices have all-glass vapor paths, which is a shared strength. Neither introduces metal or plastic flavors into the draw, and both are straightforward to clean with isopropyl alcohol.
Edge: Sticky Brick OG on craftsmanship and aesthetics. Convector V2 on practical durability and low-stakes ownership.
Head-to-Head: Ease of Use
This is where the gap widens most meaningfully. The Sticky Brick OG has a well-documented learning curve. The core challenge is coordinating flame distance, torch angle, draw speed, and draw duration simultaneously — four variables that interact with each other in real time. Too much heat input combusts your material. Too little wastes it. The relationship between these variables also shifts depending on how warm the glass heater cover already is from previous draws, what torch you're using, your altitude, and your grind consistency. Experienced users develop an almost proprioceptive feel for this, and it becomes second nature after dozens of sessions. Getting there takes patience and some wasted material.
The Convector V2's patent-pending heater design simplifies this equation. The heater geometry handles more of the thermal distribution, which means the number of variables the user needs to manage simultaneously is reduced. You still need to apply a butane flame — this isn't a push-button electronic device — but the precision of the heater narrows the margin for error. New users can typically get satisfying, consistent hits much sooner in the learning process.
Loading is similarly comparable between the two. Both devices require grinding your material to a medium-fine consistency and loading a small bowl. The Sticky Brick OG's loading procedure requires a bit more care to ensure even packing for even extraction, particularly given how sensitive the device is to airflow restriction. The Convector V2's geometry is more forgiving of slight pack density variations.
For portability, both are butane devices, which means no charging cables or battery anxiety. You carry a small torch and you're functional anywhere. Neither is truly pocket-friendly in the way an electronic pen device is, but both are genuinely portable for bag or jacket-pocket use.
Edge: Convector V2 for ease of use, particularly for newer users or anyone who wants reliable results without extensive calibration practice.
Head-to-Head: Value for Money
The price difference here is stark. The Sticky Brick OG costs approximately $165. The Convector V2 costs between $39 and $99 on a Pay What You Can model. At the $39 minimum, you're getting a butane convection vaporizer with a glass vapor path and a precision heater for less than a quarter of the price of the Sticky Brick OG.
Evaluating value means evaluating what you get per dollar spent. The Sticky Brick OG offers a hand-crafted wooden body, a long track record, a strong community of users who share tips and techniques, and peak vapor quality that is genuinely among the best in class. These are real things worth money. If you value the craftsmanship and the aesthetic experience of using a beautiful wooden instrument, the premium is justified.
The Convector V2 offers comparable convection vapor quality — not identical, not categorically worse, but competitive — at a fraction of the price. It doesn't offer the same aesthetic experience, community heritage, or prestige. What it offers is excellent performance, honest engineering, and a pricing model that makes high-quality convection vaping accessible to people for whom $165 is a meaningful barrier.
It's also worth considering that the Sticky Brick OG's glass heater cover is a consumable of sorts — it breaks, and replacing it costs money. The total cost of ownership over two years with a Sticky Brick OG may be meaningfully higher than the purchase price alone suggests. The Convector V2's more robust metal construction reduces that replacement risk.
Edge: Convector V2, and it isn't particularly close. The performance-per-dollar ratio at $39–$99 is exceptional by any reasonable standard in the vaporizer market.
Who Should Buy the Convector V2
- Budget-conscious users who refuse to compromise on vapor quality. The PWYC model is designed for you. Pay what you can afford and get a genuinely excellent convection device.
- Newer butane vaporizer users who want to learn convection technique without the steep learning curve and combustion risk that comes with the Sticky Brick OG.
- Efficiency-focused users who care about extracting their material as evenly as possible, particularly with small loads of 0.1g or less.
- Users who prioritize consistent, repeatable results over peak-performance ceiling. If you want every session to be a 7.5 rather than alternating between 9s and 5s, the Convector V2 suits that preference.
- Outdoor and travel users who want something durable that won't break their heart if it gets knocked around.
- Anyone who already owns a premium vaporizer and wants a butane convection option as a capable backup without spending another $150+.
Who Should Buy the Sticky Brick OG
- Experienced vaporizer users who have already developed good technique with butane devices and want to maximize the ceiling of what's possible from a portable convection vape.
- Users who deeply value craftsmanship and aesthetics. If the experience of using a beautiful hand-made wooden device genuinely matters to you — and for some users it does, legitimately — the Sticky Brick OG delivers that in a way the Convector V2 simply doesn't.
- Collectors and enthusiasts who want a device with an established community, a track record, and resale value. The Sticky Brick OG holds its value better in the secondhand market.
- Users who enjoy the ritual and process of mastering a technically demanding piece of equipment. The learning curve is real, but so is the satisfaction when you've genuinely dialed it in.
- Anyone for whom the $165 price point is comfortable and who wants a device that will age beautifully over years of use.