Don’t tell anyone but the secret is in the grinder : never use one. Chop with a very sharp knife in compressing the bud, in very fine strips. It change everything, even with thin wraps.
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Looks 
like we are all some rolling, smoking 
SOB,s and with that it’s time to burn 
one 
. Peace and good vibes to all 
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I bought a kit on Amazon. It’s a tray and roller papers, crutch pack. Here’s a better pic of the roller, you can kinda see it in corner in the 1st pic.
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Women make some of the best Joint rollers.Those tiny little hands smooth them out just right.Not like us Men with Big hands and the manual dexterity of a truck driver.Only good for one thing.
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Great post.
Looks great! Very clean, even a little twist on the end. Fabulous job, congrats. Loved the “left-handed cigarette” term u used.
I rolled my first one back in 1968 at some time, and never looked back until i got busted in 91, and then didn’t smoke for 25 years or more, until legalization and i began the practice again around 2017. Never missed a beat. But that’s a machine roll, i’ve used ‘em but not very often, mostly they’re the yellow sub lookin’, side-running, sloppy looking fat middle, skinny-ended j’s.
OG should have a joint-rolling contest. Winner gets an oz. lol I’d lose, no doubt, but my j’s work, okay, pretty much. I was usually designated j-roller.
Great observation there. Hang around w/a smoke buddy and you can sure see the diff from their j and your own j, fo’ sho’.
Yeah, i got a few matchboxes, and maybe once I bought some in a Prince Albert can, but as i remember smoke was mostly in baggies even then. Best way to clean seeds is w/a newspaper or magazine. I’d love to find some dispo buds w/seeds nowadays, it might just be better smoke.
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Here’s to Submarine’s and Blimbo joints @3bombedmice, and All the Paper Stretchers out there
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Nice, I have two of those myself. A 1-1/4 size and a king size. Love the rolling machines. Nice, uniform joints every time.
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Yup this is how I learned to avoid the beer belly doob. It was all down hill from there.
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Check this out…
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Love joints always have. Portable, don’t stink like bowls, and you can buy papers anywhere.
Keep rolling, you’ll get better
Ps-you get just as high on an ugly joint as opposed to a cute one
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I learned how to joints in english class…lo these decades ago figured i didnt need to pay attention in english class hell i speak english 
I prefer hand rolled. Everyone thinks I’m pretty good at it and I am, if I stick two papers together. But when I roll with only one paper, the joint is embarrassing but hey - it works.
I’d smoke it
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I have rolled a few back in 66 before grinders were popular. Strained the Mexican weed for stems and seeds in a shoe box lid, and I tried, but usually took many papers, lots of frustration and when successful (the papers held together) resembled something like a one humped camel, burned uneven requiring dabs of spit on the finger in hopes of stopping the burn runs down the side, top or bottom. Had to resort to a pipe which was awkward to carry around. Even used a coca cola can. So I let others do the rolling. A few even could do a one hand roll. Always impressed me. Some years back i got a grinder, found the rolling machine and , son-of-a-gun, made perfect joints, 90% of which burned evenly. Cardboard filters ruin the taste and some of the pleasure so i don’t use or recommend them. So If we ever were to meet and you can roll a joint that holds together and burns somewhat evenly, I’ll allow you to do the honors. Otherwise, I’ll stick sith the little roller gizmo.
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I’m a perfectionist when it comes to joints, they take me like five minutes but they will burn forever and never go out. I basically roll them like a blunt, which is how I learned to roll in the first place. I also like being able to easily stub it out to finish later, and a joint that isn’t well built and sturdy makes this a lot harder to do.
Just tried rolling a raw after about a decade and wow so much easier than an element. I can see why people are stuck on the Raws lol
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I switched from being a lifelong Zig Zag man to Raws a couple of years ago. Partly because they are great papers and partly because I respect the dude’s passion for all things rolling.
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