Kraken wrote: ↑Tue Aug 24, 2021 12:53 am
Your pipe should be around 3" long, btw. Anything much bigger is a party pipe, and if it's much smaller...well, that's what you get for six loonies.
Um... it's almost 2.5" and possibly came out of a box of Cracker Jack. Perhaps they're metric inches? The site just said "medium". The small must be for ants.
RuperT wrote: ↑Tue Aug 24, 2021 1:41 am
If there’s an extra hole anywhere, plug it.
No, there's no carb hole. I guess they don't make drill bits that small.
Joking aside, I think the bowl size is probably fine. After learning to light joints
before taking a drag, I assumed I was supposed to be doing the same thing with a pipe. If I'm supposed to be doing both at once, I'll try that; though the one legitimate size issue is that my fingertips might get torched. I looked at getting some wick but I convinced myself it would be an unnecessary added step.
Anyway, thank you all as always for the advice. I'll give these things a try. Some tutorials I read/watched definitely suggested very coarse chunks of flower for a pipe, yet others seemed to recommend a fine grind, it's confusing. However breathing in bits was definitely a problem even though I used the screen the shop recommended, so I know I definitely went too fine. It was also a little hard to position the screen however, so it's possible I wasn't getting full coverage of the hole.
Blackhawk and Drazzil et al. are here maintaining threads about improving their lives. The best I can muster is, "Sudy Develops Questionable Habit and Tries to Get Less Horrible at Cannabis".
Edit: I tried the roller, and I think it went pretty well! I mean, at least I was able to smoke what fell out of it, which is an improvement over recent events. I'm trying the Black Cherry Punch. (Also smells wonderful, but can't quite put my finger on it yet.) This joint still didn't light nor hold a burn nearly as well as the pre-rolls either, but after re-lighting it I smoked about a quarter, and after ashing all I saw was... ash. Which is good. I kind of felt like a zoologist inspecting an animal's droppings.
I see people talking about taking 20 minutes to smoke a joint. So far, for me (considering I'm smoking solo), I'll take 4-8 drags (depending on how well it's burning) over a couple minutes and then put it out, not wanting to waste more than I have to. Is this
too hasty? On the other hand, you (Kraken) and others I've read online mention putting out your pipe right away. So it this more a difference in how quickly the much coarser pipe bud burns on its own, or are these 20-minute joint smokers wasting half their weed as incense?