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rah

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OK, describe your chopping technique in detail, photos and diagrams are welcome. Also don't mention mullamatics (coffee grinders), or any of those other new fangled technologies, because i'm talking about the old school methods before all this electricity powered shit.

The following is the only acceptable method of chopping in my circles.

1. Rip apart the bud with your hands into smaller pieces.

2. grab bits of bud between your thumb and forefinger with your left hand, then chop with the scissors, sort of grinding it with the scissors between your two fingers. Now the weed naturaly falls into the bowl from between your fingers as you chop/grind.

3. Repeat #2 untill weed is powdered to acceptable levels of powderiness

4. Yep i had 5 minutes to kill and i now regret making this post and will not check back, bye.
 
^^^^ Sorry but I tend to chop the same way you do, with scissor, only thing though, I add a bit of tobacco.

I have a coffee grinder as well, but if you grind it for too long, you end up witch your weed and tobacco looking like dust!!!! :\
 
rah said:
2. grab bits of bud between your thumb and forefinger with your left hand, then chop with the scissors, sort of grinding it with the scissors between your two fingers. Now the weed naturaly falls into the bowl from between your fingers as you chop/grind.

3. Repeat #2 untill weed is powdered to acceptable levels of powderiness
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I think this dude must hang out with me (;)), coz thats how we chop as well. And we call it 'chopping up' too....$500 says he's from Australia. Thumb and forefinger must have lotsa pressure on the scissor blades so that only the finest particles fall back into the bowl. We chop ours so fine that usually about 2 cones is probably lost on peoples fingertips. If someone 'chops up' a mix poorly and its all chunky and shit, then I won't smoke it...especially if the tobacco isn't chopped finely. (Usually I show them how its done and chop it up properly). Extremely fine powder is the go. It really is a much better smoke.
 
I prefer the method of initially breaking up the bud by hand and finishing it off with the sweetleaf grinder...powder doesn't do so well in my gravity but in a joint, nothing like it.
 
Try using a shot glass and some small scissors and chopping it up in the shot glass. Remove all the stems first.
 
Weed:

1) Hands, hands down. :)

2) Grinder.

3) Coffee grinder..

4) Scissors..? :D

Hash is a different thing, ugh, to break that down for joint consumption is a pain in the arse if it's nice, black and sticky or when it's rock hard.. It takes so long and if you do it with your hands you're gonna get hash under your nails what also is a pain in the ass, but I keep doing it with my hands because I carry those with me all of the time..

1) Hands, or actually, fingers and nails.. :)

2) Bash the chunk of hash in the baggy on a flat suface with something hard.. Powdery !! :)

3) Grinder, although a little bit will stick to the grinder.
 
depends on the tools i have with me. Grinder? Scissors? electric chopper? or just plain fingers... the same 4 things everyone has mentioned in here.
 
In my circles it is always with the hands. Some bust it up finer than others, but we do not complain, for we are simple, pleasant folk that understand the marijuana is marijuana despite how it is prepared.
 
Uhm..if its nugs, I usually pack the nug in my bowl tight as hell...thats wrong??lol. if i'm gonna crush it up i just rip it to shreds with my hands. yay.
 
"In my circles it is always with the hands. Some bust it up finer than others, but we do not complain, for we are simple, pleasant folk that understand the marijuana is marijuana despite how it is prepared."

same way me and my friends are. but i think im gonna look into buying a grinder.
 
it depends on the bud structure. some bud is really condensed, and when you pull it apart with your fingers, it releases these perfect little nugget-boogers that are relatively uniform in size, and are perfect for bowl packing. for more fluffly chronic, the fingers don't work quite as well, as you end up getting these crappy strands, plus a hell of a lot of crystals on your fingers that COULD be in the bowl. with the fluff, i use maybe a knife or some scissors. it also depends on the amount of crystals on the outside of the bud... if theres a super amount on there, sometimes it's better just to dip the bowl in the sack and leave it at that. if it's a moderate amount, you won't waste much by using your fingers...
 
and theres just something about grinders that im a little bit frightened of... i mean, i see this beautiful bud in front of me, then i throw it into an ugly looking industrial metal tool, and it fuckin tears it to shreds... then all you're left with is green powder... which burns faster than little nugget chunks. the kif you collect from the grinder is a double-edged sword... on one hand, you get a nifty kif collection that you can freebase at your leisure, or do whatever with... on the other hand, you end up losing lots of the crystal that COULD be going into your joint, bowl, whatever.
 
Yeah true... I use a coffee grinder, and you aren't going to be smoking much trichomes/crystals after you grind the bud.. Unless you sprinkl;e them on top of the cone/bowl/in joint..

If I'm using scissors I normally use a black camera film container thing, or a shot glass, and chop it all up in the corner. Chops out nicely like a coffee grinder would, but you don't lose as much trichomes.

Most of my friends though, chop up using scissors and chopping between index finger and thumb, and keep repeating that till well chopped, then add tobacco at a ratio of 40%-60%, with weed leading the ratio. This is ofcourse by sight, and not weight, since tobacco is way light. They then chop the tobacco into the weed a bit.
 
^^just wondering about using the grinder...do you throw it in there w/ some of the stems on it and let them grind up too? never seen anyone use one of them.
 
Redman, I think you're wrong (not that it really matters) but how a person prepares thier bowl is a personal preference and is not dictated by where you live.

I like scissors for the prep of joint material.
 
i use a manual grinder. it's circular, with teeth that mesh together in the center. then you twist is clockwise/counter clockwise several times and tap it out. check for large bits and snip them up, and then roll your jay or smoke your bong...
 
there's some really cool metal grinders out there that have a screen under the grinding chamber, which lets crystals/trichomes through. So after a good couple weeks of grinding up your weed in the metal, you can unscrew the bottom chamber, and voila! you got youself some perfectly smokable kif! i've been procrastinating getting one of these grinders but i have a buddy that's using one, and i think its a pretty good idea... plus i want to get my own instead of letting him have the crystals from my weed in his grinder :)
 
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