rolling a joint

mikek420

mikek420

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so I'm pretty baked, drunk, feeling good right now. I tried rolling a joint, cause all I have are the job 1.5s. then I realized I suck at it. does anyone have any pointers/suggestions/unique ways to roll? I typically roll blunts and I always pearl them. I am so good at rolling joints, I can take a 2 pack, tear off a thin strip on the 2, and roll 3 regular blunts, all pearled. BUT I CAN'T roll a goddamned joint! WTF is wrong with me??? they are always fat in the middle, or loose, or fat and loose, or too tight and can't hit. I always spill a lot of shit out of both the top and bottom, and sometimes I tear it up, I hate myself lol I am rooming with someone from Turkey, and he rolls like this:

takes the paper fills with buds (and tobacco I really wish he wouldn't but W/E) and then he gets a small piece of paper and rolls it on the one side, and makes that side tight, then he rolls it up and licks and sticks it, making a cone shape (fat on the top, really skinny where he put that paper) and takes a pen or something, and pushes down on the top to pack it. Next he twists the top 1/4 inch or so. it ends up looking like a cone shaped cherry bomb or something. I am rolling like that now, but it usually ends up running really bad.

OK I Know this is something I should have learned years ago, but how can I roll a good J?
 
Steelheader3430

Steelheader3430

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Use a dollar bill as a rolling machine. Hold the bill vertical, bring the bottom up towards you. Put your weed in the bend and slide the billup and down (keeping your digits close to the bud)to roll the medicine. Then put your paper on the weed and roll it up. when the glue is the only thing not rolled lick it. Then carefully as not to glue the paper to the bill finish your roll.

Steelheader.
 
mikek420

mikek420

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use the dollar like a regular rolling machine? that sounds simple, I will have to try it next time I have enough, right now I got like .3g so I doubt that will be enough to roll with, thanks
 
sheldonblack

sheldonblack

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mikek420 said:
so I'm pretty baked, drunk, feeling good right now. I tried rolling a joint, cause all I have are the job 1.5s. then I realized I suck at it. does anyone have any pointers/suggestions/unique ways to roll? I typically roll blunts and I always pearl them. I am so good at rolling joints, I can take a 2 pack, tear off a thin strip on the 2, and roll 3 regular blunts, all pearled. BUT I CAN'T roll a goddamned joint! WTF is wrong with me??? they are always fat in the middle, or loose, or fat and loose, or too tight and can't hit. I always spill a lot of shit out of both the top and bottom, and sometimes I tear it up, I hate myself lol I am rooming with someone from Turkey, and he rolls like this:

takes the paper fills with buds (and tobacco I really wish he wouldn't but W/E) and then he gets a small piece of paper and rolls it on the one side, and makes that side tight, then he rolls it up and licks and sticks it, making a cone shape (fat on the top, really skinny where he put that paper) and takes a pen or something, and pushes down on the top to pack it. Next he twists the top 1/4 inch or so. it ends up looking like a cone shaped cherry bomb or something. I am rolling like that now, but it usually ends up running really bad.

OK I Know this is something I should have learned years ago, but how can I roll a good J?
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I don'tmind the fat in the middle Js you can however avoid that with extra attention. I roll with small Zags but you know how theyre folded in half, well the half without the stickey edge, I fold that into half too. So now my paper is smaller so I use only 3/4 of the paper. It's easier to keep ground bud in there, and I throw the stuff in there and fold the smaller side over. Shit this is hard to explain, fuck it.
 
mikek420

mikek420

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I was wanting to not buy a roller, they are not in my area. I can actually roll decently with the top papers. I was thinking to switch to paper, it burns smoother, but I don't see myself riding my bike to the lou to get a rolling machine, thats like 100 miles, or 8 dollars for the metro and all day for it. Sheldonblack, I have tried what you said before, but I tear that piece off instead of folding. I guess it may work better if I keep it there?
 
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minnesmoker

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for us lazy fucker with sore, burnt up fingers, too!

Yeah, 8.00 rolling machine that your smoke shop should have, right next to the raws, and the extra books of raw tips. Get the 110MM. the "long papers" and the long roller. You can roll shorts in a long, but you can't roll longs in a short. (And, you can twist a 2g+crutch blunt with it, just takes a bit of deft maneuvering)
 
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minnesmoker

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Dude, if you can't find one in town, bust out a card and have it shipped to you. No reason why you can't, unless you live in an area with a tobacco ban
 
mikek420

mikek420

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there I go over complicating things... I can roll a 3.5 gram blunt with my fingers though :P but I might be able to find one online then somewhere. and there is a tobacconist in town I could check first
 
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minnesmoker

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mikek420 said:
there I go over complicating things... I can roll a 3.5 gram blunt with my fingers though :P but I might be able to find one online then somewhere. and there is a tobacconist in town I could check first
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Not a competition, son. LoL. Check first, and, find a place to order papers "in bulk" Once you get used to twisting and smoking with the crutch/cardboard filter/spliff, whatever you wanna' call it, You get spoiled. No roach, so, the burnt fingers/bad pass are a thing of the past, as are pot in the mouth and the end of the joint crumbling into your mouth when water-mouth gets done drooling the fuck outta' it. (Still don't pass to that fucker with the big ass weeping herpes sore, though!)
 
Metasynth

Metasynth

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What's a "pearled" blunt? That being said, I can hand roll both blunts and joints pretty well. You should just buy a pack of rolling tobacco and spend a couple hours practicing.
 
mikek420

mikek420

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pearled is street slang for a perfect blunt, no holes, no sticks nice and straight all the way through, and the ends are good to where they don't fold up with resin and are hard to smoke, and they aren't fat and floppy where stuff comes out. IE the perfect smoke each time.

I've been practicing, I just can't get my paper joints to be as sexy looking as my blunts, and I sometimes end up using 2-3 papers cause I rip them, and I have always been jealous of my friends who get that perfect cigarette look with their joints, nice and straight sides, no super fat middle, or any part for that matter, and my one friend rolls so good that a machine would make a worse roll. Those wired papers look interesting, I've heard of something like that but never tried it
 
MojoRison

MojoRison

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I practiced with empty papers until I got it right and now can do it with my eyes closed {yes I tried it}
 
mikek420

mikek420

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About to roll another turkish style joint. I like them in that I can keep it tight, I don't like them in that they are cone shaped and look weird. also the paper in the bottom handicaps me into thinking I'm doing awesome job of rolling, and instead I SUCK ASS at it. practice makes perfect I guess, I just hate how some people naturally can roll the perfect j while driving and I drop half my shit out and have to reroll 20 times
 
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