Rolling: A Tutorial

I am bored and I just saw another post where someone wanted to know how to roll, so I thought I would make a tutorial and try to explain the best I can how to roll a good joint. :thumbsup:

Obviously, the first thing you need are materials:

-Papers
-Roach Material
-Brace (Optional, but well help beginners and ensure proper distribution of -smoking product IMO)
-Cannabis Product

Picture 3 shows the brace I made.

Picture 4 is the roach. Just take a business card, cut off a portion of it, and tightly roll it in to a cylinder.

Picture 5 are the materials I will be using in this particular joint: From top left in clockwork fashion: 1) Tobacco, 2) Weed, 3) Hashish 4) Hempka (something made by dissoliving powdered kief in medical alcohol and cooking it down, soaking it up with medium of your choice)

Now, I would I like to mention that I am not using the papers of my choice. I usually use a longer, much thinner paper such as OCB Slim, but at the moment I only have these shorter, lower quality papers called Mascottes.

As you can see in picture 3, I have put two of the shorter papers together perpendicularly so I can get a longer paper to roll with.

I will place the roach at the end of the joint on the right side and use it to guide my roll. As you can see in pictures 8 and 9, I am pinching the end of the paper where the roach is and kind of tucking it under and using it to guide the rest of the joint as it rolls up. If you do it right, it should basically roll itself; all you have to do is make sure it is not rolled too tight or too loose.

In pictures 10 and 11, you are able to see the finished product. I usually cut off the excess paper because I feel it is easier to light that way and allows for a much more even burn while smoking. One of the keys to even burning is also the way you distribute the smoking medium in the joint before you roll it. Look at picture 7 to see how I have distributed the medium to my specifications.

Picture 13 shows a joint I rolled using my preferred rolling papers: OCB Slim.

I hope that this has been helpful to some of you, and I would like to also remind you that practice makes perfect! :smokin:

Pictures 11, 12, and 13. :smokin:

I would also like to note that in picture 6 you can see how I have mixed the hashish, hempka, tobacco, and weed all together and worked it through by hand to make a uniform smoking mixture.

thats a nice jay man, i hope to someday be that good

pretty nice guide :thumbsup:

my favorite papers are King Size Smoking Brand DeLux, the ones in the black box. they're long and very thin. more ganja less paper to smoke

Thanks for the support all! :smokin:

I hope some people can learn from this. If you still can't figure it out, I will make a video. :)

why do you use 2 papers

Yeah a video would go very well with it.

Nice job!! :) :dance:

Nice guide:) . I would like to see a video, just for perfection.

That's definately a nice spliff, man. I would totally love to toke off that. A video would just be icing on the cake, and you could totally post that stuff on youtube.com.

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Originally Posted by BlazeTheWeed

why do you use 2 papers

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Original Poster: "As you can see in picture 3, I have put two of the shorter papers together perpendicularly so I can get a longer paper to roll with."

thats a bueat. surpisingly easy to follow. i dont smoke many joints, but i do if im out somewhere, and dont feel like bringing a pipe. again, great job. if you posted a video on youtube or something make sure to post the link.

its good that there are all these guides stickied :D

Nup, still can't roll. I guess I just need shitloads of practice.

Damn, I wish I had rolling skills like that. I usally just use a pipe, but rolling is useful if you want to sneak a spliff into a concert or something.

Hey you made it to a sticky nice job :D lol

how i learned- practice with bread crumbs or something like that. or rolling tobacco if you smoke tobacco.

I can roll a smokeable joint, they just arnet all that pretty and i cant figure out how to roll em like in all those videos and guides i find. the part i get stuck at is after rolling the paper together to get the shape. after that everyone kinda tucks in the paper and rolls it up so easy with the thumbs. WTF? i cant for the life of me do that. i have tried so many times.

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Originally Posted by dewdrinker

I can roll a smokeable joint, they just arnet all that pretty and i cant figure out how to roll em like in all those videos and guides i find. the part i get stuck at is after rolling the paper together to get the shape. after that everyone kinda tucks in the paper and rolls it up so easy with the thumbs. WTF? i cant for the life of me do that. i have tried so many times.

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It's all about practice man. :smokin:

I used to roll horrible, pregnant joints, but after a little practice and trying out various methods I am able to roll a great joint everytime.

I am going to make a video and show exactly what my fingers are doing as soon as I get some time here in the next few days. :smokin:

Good smoking and good rolling! :stoned:

nice job man.. Well i dnt have any prob in rolling my joint like yours...
Me im fromm Mauritius an island in the indian ocean (The beaches of hawai is nofin compared to those over here)
And you are rite practice does make perfect..
Bt do you knw how to roll into a conical ???

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Originally Posted by MASS

nice job man.. Well i dnt have any prob in rolling my joint like yours...
Me im fromm Mauritius an island in the indian ocean (The beaches of hawai is nofin compared to those over here)
And you are rite practice does make perfect..
Bt do you knw how to roll into a conical ???

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The shape of the joint is all about distribution of the smoking medium.

I can roll a fat cone if I want, but I prefer the style I use now.

I plan on rolling many different style and adding them to this thread.

I think maybe I will attempt the Cat Whisker's joint tonight and post some pics and instuctions. :smokin:

oh wow thats ingenius! i wonder if it would work if i get a thin stick of hash, and stick tobacco all over it and pack it tight into a straight joint? You just gave me inspiration for that im just not sure as how to make it burn slow and evenly to make the hash burn nicely.

Rolling really isnt hard at all. Obviously your gonna be shit at something when you start doing it and then you learn through trial and error. I think a lot of people are just too lazy or impatient to learn.

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Originally Posted by stoneberg

oh wow thats ingenius! i wonder if it would work if i get a thin stick of hash, and stick tobacco all over it and pack it tight into a straight joint? You just gave me inspiration for that im just not sure as how to make it burn slow and evenly to make the hash burn nicely.

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I usually just press my hash out on the table into a coin sheet and then put a little fire to it for a couple seconds then mix it in throughly with the tobacco, trying to make sure that it is an even mixture and there aren't any oversize chunks. :smokin:

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Originally Posted by dreadedben

Rolling really isnt hard at all. Obviously your gonna be shit at something when you start doing it and then you learn through trial and error. I think a lot of people are just too lazy or impatient to learn.

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Exactly! :thumbsup:

once again, great job man. very informative.

thats a nice ass joint

Today I thought I would show you all how to roll the infamous Cat's Whisker joint. :smokin:

I would like to mention that today's joint will be rolled by my good mate "S" from the UK.

As you can tell from picture 1, these are the materials we will be using. "S" has taken two OCB's and cut one in half adding another half to the other creating an extra long paper.

You can see the medium spread out and ready to roll in picture 2. I would have used a brace to brace the joint while I was distributing the medium, but as you can see "S" has chosen to use a sort of half brace by placing one end of the joint on top of a box of papers.

Picture 3 is just a gratuitous kief shot. :D

Pictures 4 and 5 are showing the joint in various stages of rolling completion. Notice how the thumbs are used to sort of press the medium into place and then used as a guide for rolling upwards while tucking in the other side of the paper. :smokin:

:D

Please note how extra long the roach is in picture 7. This is done purposely to connect the other joint you will roll.

As you can see in picture 8 "S" has rolled another joint is attaching it to the joint rolled before via the extra long roach constructed before.

Pictures 9 and 10 are showing how the two joints have been connected and then reinforced using another smaller rolling paper. :smokin:

:D

Pictures 11 and 12 show "S" cutting a diamond shape into the roach connecting the two joints. This is, obvisouly, so you can smoke both of the joints at the same time.

Picture 13 shows the finished product and picture 14 shows "S" enjoying a bit of his hard work!

NOTE: When the two joints burn down and get too short, you can the roach material in half and VOILA! --- two more joints to share with friends and family! :smokin:

Nice man, the skill of that rolling is so incredible i just wish i could roll like that. One day i will.. i'm working on it now. But yeah, nice ass joints man! Keep up the good work and if you get a video out i can't wait to see it. :smokin:

may i just say, i want to have your babies.

and when do you think you'll have that vid up?

I am working on the video guys. Have been a little busy and a little stoned lately, so I am waiting for someone to be able to record whilst I do my rolling thing. :stoned:

It will be up soon. :smokin:

Thanks for the interest and support!

nice jay bro

Does anyone else roll a paper around a pencil, lick it and pull the pencil almost ouf of the empty joint, then just drop weed in there, then pull the pencil out and twist? I find it pretty easy that way.

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Originally Posted by yoyoman1020

Does anyone else roll a paper around a pencil, lick it and pull the pencil almost ouf of the empty joint, then just drop weed in there, then pull the pencil out and twist? I find it pretty easy that way.

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i used to do that but i find that i would waste way too much weed in a joint. best to just roll the paper around the weed.

I manely stick to pipes but i half to admit that is one sexy jay. I'd hit that any day.Keep on rolling man.

those are some skillz my friend

Thanks for the feedback all! I wish I had the means to make a short video and upload it so I could show you all how easy it is to roll like that.

In a weeks time, I think anyone could do it. Well, maybe a couple weeks. But I don't have a camera or camcorder anymore and I wont have a computer soon either. :(

Keep smokin' :smokin:

Binz