Lol, yeah, it's a ridiculous amount of cotton! Funnily, it's just snug inside the coil... this cotton from ITC is super fluffy!
Actually, I did miss the cotton going over the air inlets, and I did drop the coils a hair from where they were on the last wicking... so far it's good! No seeping or leaking or anything! I really thought I would have to remove some of the wick tails, but it looks like this crazy "looks like a brain" wick job is gonna be okay afterall!
Started out as satire, and here end up leaving it as it is...
Edit: you were close regarding coils. It's a .12 SS16L fused clapton build.