Rosin press suggestions?

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Mine is only 3x3 plates, so maybe mine parchment is like 6 inches when I slice it off. Yours will be but wider.

I press shake, trim, hash, and fine buds, everything. Buds on average I hit around 20-25%. My best ever bud squish was Black Triangle and GuavaxC99 both slightly over 30% return. If your 8g of buds is nice and moist (62 - 65% humidity) and crystally, then you should expect at least 1-1.5g coming back.

I don’t have a rig. Shit gets ridiculous. I just use my bong with this banging E-nail below. Thing kicks ass! I’ll even just hit it without a bong if I’m out and about. Yocan makes tons of great wax pens. The Yocan Evolve Plus pen uses the same coils as the Torch.

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Okay, I’ll try and respond to everyone in one post.

@BCC I’m definitely not buying a torch. That seems way too drug-y for me. I used to freebase the fuck out of blow in my mid-twenties (20 years ago) and anything that requires a blowtorch is not happening in my house. Not that I think I’d suddenly revert to smoking base just because there’s a blowtorch laying around, I’m just saying… Fuck a blowtorch.

I’m also just super-old school. I roll joints, for the most part, with the occasional couple bong rips when I’m too lazy to roll a joint. I like breaking up the weed, I like feeling it stick to my fingers… I like uncomplicated things. I dunno. Enails make the most sense to me, but I guess that’s just because the other option is a blowtorch. I’ve used pens before for flower and oils and there was just something missing. So an enail seems to make the most sense.

Also, why do they call it a nail when it’s basically a bowl? That’s a rhetorical question, I don’t really need an answer. “Why do they call it a bong??? Why do they call it a joint?” Calling the nail a “nail” does seem to add to the confusion, at least for me.

And I’m with you re: anything glass. I bought a bong a couple months ago after about a five year hiatus from them, just because I broke a bong every month or so. Literally, every month or so for years. After a while, I was just like,”Okay, joints and bowls from here on out.” But a few months ago, I felt like I wanted to own a bong again. Haven’t broke it yet! But thise rigs are fucking expensive and I feel certain I’d break mine in six months, tops.

@ReikoX Your enail is packed away until you finish the workshop? How come? I’m only asking because growing/smoking is already taking over my house haha. Bought a new fridge for the garage because my seed collection got too big for our “real” fridge, which means there’s less room in our garage now, there’s barely any room in my grow room (third bedroom) for anything now that I’m getting ready to set up my veg tent… I dunno. Just wondering.

And @schmarmpit Yes, it’s getting ridiculous. So you cut the parchment paper to basically fit your plates exact-size? No room around the edges for “leakage” or whatever? 20-25% returns sounds good. My bud is definitely stored in pretty ideal conditions, so… good to know. I looked at that link, I still don’t get it haha. Swear to gawd, I’m not dumb, but this shit doesn’t seem a bit complicated. Still, I know some really dumb motherfuckers who have no problem dabbing. If they can do it, I can do it! Haha!

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I’m having trouble understand what you are after. You seem to be on a tight budget, but you’re going to end up dropping a grand before you have ever even tried to see if you like smoking rosin. I know some people like to take a chance and go all in. Hopefully you love rosin and it all works out for the best.

Edit: Meaning, I want to be helpful to you, but it is unclear what your goals/budget are.

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No. If reading up on this is not your style, there are a ton of good YouTube videos. You could start with some from Nug Smasher. They focus on their own device, but they go over the basics.

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Definitely not a tight budget. I’ve already dropped about a grand on this, between the press, the plates and all the accessories (minus a rug). I guess what I’m after is: why the fuck does somebody need a rig, which to me looks like a tiny, complicated bong with a hole that your mouth doesn’t even fit into? And I guess I’m just after y’all’s opinions on this, what works for you etc.

I’ve watched a lot of those YouTube videos (and a lot of other videos not on YouTube) and read a bunch of articles, too, which is why I’m asking questions here, where I trust (most of) the members. There’s a shitload of differing opinions in those videos/articles, from press-style/pressure to how you fold your paper to whether or not to use a mold etc etc. Obviously, everything is “personal preference,” for everything, always. I’d just rather hear (read) opinions from people on a grow site that I trust than from the people in those videos (some of whom seem trustworthy and some of whom seem like morons and some of whom are just trying to sell their presses).

I get it. Really what I should do is just start pressing, which I will once the press actually gets here. I’m just trying to get as much info from reliable sources as I can before I do that. Believe me, I’ve talked to friends of mine who like rosin about their opinions, too. But they’re not actually pressing, they’re just buying rosin from dispensaries and people they know. I just like having a lot of info.

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My e-nail is in storage so it doesn’t get broke. I generally smoke/dab in my workshop, so i packed up everything for the rebuild. I’m close to finished, but still haven’t gotten everything out of storage.

You don’t need a rig to enjoy rosin. I often roll a joint, then smear a spiral of rosin around it and dust it with some bubble hash. I call this a jazzy joint.

Smear a bud with it and coat it in hash and its called a moon rock. :stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye:

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I agree. I use my lowest grade oily rosin on joints and in my bong on herb. However, to really taste the rosin (and to experience the sledge hammer effect of a big dab, if you are into that), you need either a rig, and bong adapter for a nail, or some other dedicated device, IMO.

I’ll answer because it is actually (a little bit) interesting. Glass nails used to be popular. I think before rosin when people were dabbing full melt. You put the nail in your rig, heat it with a torch, and then drop some hash on the head. I hated them. Half the time my hash would end up on the table instead of on the nail head. I guess people just got in the habit of calling it a nail.

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Edit: I wonder if people ever smoked hash off of real nails? Maybe that inspired the glass ones? :wink:

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I used to do knife hits, waayyyyyyyy back in the day. Wouldn’t surprise me if people smoked hash off of a nail, too.

Okay, so I’ll probably just end up buying a rig and an enail and all that stuff. I mean, what’s another 300 bucks, right? Haha. Seriously, when I first started looking at presses, I was like,”I am definitely NOT spending $800 on a press.” Then I ended up spending about $800 on a press and plates (after shipping). I might as well invest in a rig, too. It just seems really tedious or time-consuming or something. A pain in the ass, I guess. But if I’m gonna go through the whole process of pressing, I might as well get the most out of it. I really only glanced at some rigs before I was like,”Fuck that,” but I’ll start looking at them in earnest now.

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Moon rocks! I remember those. But I was always like,”If you need moon rocks, you really oughta just get better weed…” haha!

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We use to put hash on the end of a pin and light it to smoke. You could inhale it right from the pin, or cover it with a cup and let the smoke gather. A small finishing nail would work too if we didn’t have a pin. That was the late 70’s and early 80’s. Maybe that is why they call it a nail? Just a thought

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Could be. In the 80s when I was in college, we would smoke hash oil off of tin foil using a bic pen. Luckily, it was really hard to come by or I would have smoked a ton of aluminum.

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We made screens from aluminum foil in the 70’s for our toilet paper roll pipes…lol

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I have a couple titanium and ceramic nails and a dab rig… I prefer my nectar collector, it does not hold water and is entirely made of glass, but man does it hit good and clean. Lil harsh at times obviously but nothing crazy.

You do need a torch though. The only way you’re not buying a torch when it comes to dabbing is if you go full e-nail and nothing else and that’s got a decent price tag on it.

For parchment, when folded in half, I like to have an inch or so sticking out past the edges of my plates(on the sides) and sticking out a couple inches in front so I can fold over the bottom half to make kind of a cup for any rosin dripping down to sit in instead of dripping to the floor. So if you have 3x5 plates like me, I usually do like ~6"x6" parchment when folded in half. ~6"x~12" or so unfolded.

Again, I personally like to use two pieces of parchment this size so that no rosin gets on to my plates. I did just the one piece originally to do my pressing and got rosin all over my plates. So with two, I use some magnets and can keep the first piece of parchment folded in there but open (bottom half magnetized to the bottom plate, top half magnetized to the top plate) the whole time I’m pressing and can just slide the second piece, that’s holding what i’m pressing inside it, in and out as needed.

This gives an inch or so of rosin to collect on the side of the plates which isn’t too common, and plenty up front to catch any that would drain down which is pretty common.

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Just getting into it, maybe the Huni Badger is right for you. Its small, discrete, and easy to use.

https://www.hunibadger.com/SHOP/Huni-Badger-Vertical-Vaporizer-Kit-Black

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I’m gonna go full enail for sure. I’m not using a torch. Or I was thinking about this https://www.kandypens.com/oura-turquoise.html

Are you familiar with that? It seems the easiest to me.

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Haha, yeah, I used to use the ol’ toilet paper roll/aluminum foil screen when I was a kid, too. I’d forgotten about that…

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For that price, go with the Puffco Peak. I use mine daily and love it!

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yeah that looks hella overpriced for what it is. I would not.

I’ve never heard or seen the Peak before but that at least looks like a better buy for the money…

Can get a basic enail setup off amazon for like ~$100 give or take $40

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Yeah, I looked at that yesterday when you posted the link. Is that basically the same thing as that Oura I posted? Okay, I’ll get the Puffco. Bam! Settled! Haha.

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Yeah, I looked at a bunch on Amazon (and all over the place). The ones on Amazon looked cheap. Which I suppose they are. Also, I’m sick of giving Jeff Bezos my money. I’ve been ordering so much shit from Amazon in the last six months or so, just because they’re the only place that’ll have something that I need ASAP.

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