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Electric bakhoor · Prototype · Riyadh

XOUD heats oud the way it deserves — a precise electric chamber instead of charcoal. No coal, no ash, no scorched wood. Built by hand, tested nightly.

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The ritual

Charcoal was the compromise.

For centuries the only way to raise oud's scent was a live coal — lighter fluid, ash on the tray, wood scorched before it ever opened up. The ritual survived because the scent was worth it.

XOUD keeps the ritual and removes the fire. A stainless chamber and a controlled element bring the wood to temperature — not past it. The majlis stays. The mess goes.

Build log

Five stages, one bench.

Everything below is real: the files, the boards, the burns. This is where the product is right now.

  1. 01 Design

    Drawn before it was real

    Every wall, vent and cavity starts as geometry. The lid's lattice isn't decoration — it's the vent the smoke leaves through.

    CAD model of the XOUD body and lattice lid, rendered in brand duotone
    CAD, body + lattice lid

  2. 02 Teardown

    Study what exists

    We opened up the burners already on the market and kept a list of everything we'd refuse to ship.

    An off-the-shelf electric burner opened on the bench for study
    Donor unit, opened

  3. 03 Electronics

    Two boards, one job

    Charging, cell protection and heat control. USB-C in, a steady 3.7 volts out to the element — nothing glows that isn't meant to.

    Power and control boards seated inside the printed enclosure
    Power + control boards, seated

  4. 04 Enclosure

    Printed, magnetic, matte

    The chamber is stainless steel; the lattice lid seats itself on four magnets. Open, refill, close — one hand.

    Matte black printed enclosure with stainless chamber and magnetic lattice lid
    Enclosure + magnetic lid

  5. 05 First burn

    It works

    Current on, chamber to temperature, oud in. The first smoke off the bench — and not a piece of charcoal in the room.

    First burn, prototype
The XOUD workbench in Riyadh — power supply, meters and the prototype
The bench, Riyadh — where the prototype lives.

Prototype

Measured, not promised.

Power
3.7 V Li-ion cell
Charging
USB-C
Chamber
Stainless steel
Lid
Magnetic lattice
Element draw
≈ 8 A on the bench
Body
Printed, matte black

Numbers from the bench prototype. Production specs may change.

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