I hand rolled my first decent joint!

[nduncan492]

I've always wanted to be a master at rolling joints, just carry a sac, lighter and papers around with me, no need for pipes. But until now i made shitty un-even joints that only seemed to burn on one side haha. SO the other night i was real high after having a couple of bong bowls, so i decided to start rolling. It wasn't the best looking joint, but it burned evenly and even more so got me burnt! I took gravity bong hits of the roach and that was the end of my night. Ha, i wanna get better, and i know there are a couple of threads about this already, but any advice besides keep practicing, no ancient Chinese secret?

[Reefer Rogue]

Watch people do it, watch videos of people doing it, imagine yourself doing it, do it.

Good luck young padawan :stoned:

[Raider187]

Me and my friends wanted to see who could roll a better joint. Mines on the far right next to the pack of zigzags. Personally I think mine was the best outta all of 'em. Of course that could be because I used more in it.:D
http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c216/Raider187/ZigZags.jpg

[theamazingkane]

There really is no secret to it, just practice practice practice. But along with what everyone else has said, consult those who are more experienced at rolling to get good tips and advice, it's one of those things that can be tough to learn but easy to master.

[originalblu]

joints are the shit

[pass_the_dubbie]

If you dont have a bottomless supply of weed to use to roll with try rolling your own cigarettes instead of buying them and roll them like it was a joint. It helped me a good bit although im still not a great roller but im getting there.

[Stumps]

Great joint dude, i would love to smoke that masterpeice!

[rabbitslayer]

Sometimes it helps to concentrate more on how it feels in your fingers than what it looks like. If while you're rolling it it feels like it is a solid packed consistency all the way through (not too tight) then it will burn a lot smoother, more even (less boating), slower. To conserve weed while you're learning, do what someone else suggested up there and roll your own cigs. Costs like 10c so if you fuck it up you can just throw it away... when you get decent start throwing a half a bowls worth of torn up weed in the middle with piles of tobacco on each side then roll it... smokes like a dream :jointsmile:

[make it legal]

Me and my friends wanted to see who could roll a better joint. Mines on the far right next to the pack of zigzags. Personally I think mine was the best outta all of 'em. Of course that could be because I used more in it.:D
http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c216/Raider187/ZigZags.jpg

mine look just ike the one on the left but fatter usually

[Duke Street Kings]

Use a roller. I have two different kinds. One makes them thinner, the other one makes them real fat.

There is a problem with rollers.

Years ago, my roommates and I had a roller. One of those cheapy plastic EZ-Wider rollers. And it worked pretty well.

My friends learned rudimentary manual joint-rolling skills. I did not. My friends made fun of me for being a stoner and not knowing how to roll a joint. I felt self-conscious.

We moved on with our lives, into our own places.

Now, a decade and a half later, my friends, too lazy to take the time to learn to roll well, have once again resorted back to the EZ-Wider plastic rollers, out of laziness and futility. Most of them can get a joint rolled but they'll waste 3 or more rolling papers and 20 minutes getting it done.

Since that day when they made fun of me, I have not used a roller, and now, I am the only one who can easily and reliably roll a joint by myself.

I make fun of them a lot:

Me: "Hey, let's smoke a joint!"

Them: "Bah one minute, let me go get my roller."

Me: "Tee hee. Loser."

Them: "BAH. THE ROLLER BROKE." (Cheapo EZ Wider rollers break easily and frequently)

Me: "Let me roll, then, loser."

Them: (Humiliated look)

I hardly think knowing how to roll a joint properly should affect one's self esteem. But imagine like, one day, it turns out that, say, Willie Nelson or Snoop Dogg or Tommy Chong turns out to actually be an alien ambassador from Antares 3, who has spent time living on earth trying to figure out the best way to confront the human species with the fact that we are not alone.

He happens to decide to do this at a concert you're at. You're up in the front row because your asshole Uncle Giaccomo works for Clear Channel and scored you prime tickets. You're not even particularly a fan of, say, Willie Nelson or Snoop Dogg or Tommy Chong, but you went anyway, because this chick you're into really wanted to.

Willie Nelson or Snoop Dogg or Tommy Chong says, "I have, here in this data crystal, the cures for all human diseases and agricultural secrets which will like cure famine and end war and shit, and all I require is that one of you comes forward and rolls the ceremonial joint to consummate the relationship between our two civilizations!"

And like, no one there knows how to properly roll a goddamn joint except *you*. The whole future of the human species could be IN YOUR HANDS.

Hey, it could happen.

Learn how to roll a joint. Because possibly, on Antares 3, rollers might be looked at as blasphemous objects. Some dork next to you might whip out a roller and start an intergalactic war which spans aeons and wipes out half the galaxy.

It is important to be cognizant of these possibilities.

Besides, MacGyver would know how to roll a joint himself, and you want to be like MacGyver...DON'T YOU? The A-Team isn't going to come barreling through the space time continuum with a roller built out of like, steel ripped from a 78 Cutlass and a dishwasher, even if that was desirable. Nosir. B.A. Baracus does not fly and he certainly does not surf the intergalactic wormhole network. Unless Murdock drugs him first, but that's not going to happen unless he knows in advance.

And as a stoner YOU'RE GOING TO FORGET TO PREPARE FOR THIS EVENTUALITY BECAUSE YOUR SHORT TERM MEMORY IS SHOT TO HELL.

It is worth considering.

[Buddha Man]

^^ wtf does that all mean?

[stick]

Learn to roll. You'll save the galaxy.