I've been vaping for the past 10 years and I've seen a lot of incarnations of the industry but the last few years I've noticed a particular group of vapers making their own coils. I get the allure, manufactured coils are terrible and often burn out within a day or two, but is the taste and longevity of your home made coils actually better? Or is this just something they say to justify the work involved in making them at home?
Are they really better than manufactured coils?
For me, it's not a cut & dried issue. Homemades are cheaper but not necessarily always better. My favorite FLAVOR comes from an old RTA (Elkonigin) but my favorite VAPE comes from a rebuildable blister pack coil (hybrid?), the Joyetech CLR.
I vape a fair amount of both homemade (Erlkonigin, BP Pioneer, Doggystyle) and blister-packs (CLR, Nautilus, Aspire BVC). I like them all.
Ironically, my best performance (combination of duration & taste) comes from the tiny little Aspire BVC coils. I get long life from them and always enjoy the vape.
Vape style (wattage and length of hits) has a lot to do with it so there's really no "correct" answer. While we're still able to do so, every vaper can find his or her own "sweet spot" (a very old vape reference that still speaks for itself).
One day, possibly sooner than later, vapers will (probably) have all the "options" (cough) that smokers are familiar with. Different color packages with minimal differences in flavor and/or performance.
That, in my opinion, is a shame.
Enjoy the current landscape while we still can. Our governments, hard at work (eyeroll).