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[MEGA]Methods of Smoking
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took me a decade before i tried using brass screens for my bongo, and i cant believe that it took me that long to find em. keeps the water clean, no wastage from accidental un-burnt pull through.
cleaning them is easy between hits or days, take the screen out, flatten it out, using a knife scrape over the screen to get the resin off. i change my screen once a week, costs like 20c each here in oz.
i used to get annoyed when mates who don't smoke often would try and "pull" the cone through in one very quick and hard hit and then i'd see all this green weed floating around with all the ash. such a waste.
cleaning them is easy between hits or days, take the screen out, flatten it out, using a knife scrape over the screen to get the resin off. i change my screen once a week, costs like 20c each here in oz.
i used to get annoyed when mates who don't smoke often would try and "pull" the cone through in one very quick and hard hit and then i'd see all this green weed floating around with all the ash. such a waste.
I am an avid screen user. My reasoning behind this is that the more fine that my product is the better smoke I will get. I don't want any of this fine material being sucked into my pipe, bubbler, or water pipe therefore I use screens.
Usually swap them out about once a week depending on how often the piece is being used
Usually swap them out about once a week depending on how often the piece is being used
Thomas29
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I always do I personally think it is necessary. I think the screens you get at the store actually suck and you should make one out of the Mesh from a kitchen skillet it has bigger holes sooo it's easier to unclog after hits and the screens I make out of them always seem to last me like a couple months of heavy toking.
drug_mentor
Bluelight Crew
No I don't, I live in Australia and we smoke 'cones' as opposed to 'bowls'. A cone is essentially a one hitter bowl with a small hole and no screen. Basically the idea is you suck the flame onto it slowly and gradually increase how hard you suck until all the weed is cherried well, at this point you can remove the lighter and pull hard with the diaphragm and all the weed will burn up really quick and once its burnt the ash will pull through the little hole and into the bong water, making a distinct snap sound.
I don't know how you guys can be fucked tipping the ash out of every bowl and cleaning screens and all that bullshit, I am not hating, to each their own, but to me personally the way of doing things here seems simpler and more efficient.
I don't know how you guys can be fucked tipping the ash out of every bowl and cleaning screens and all that bullshit, I am not hating, to each their own, but to me personally the way of doing things here seems simpler and more efficient.
drug_mentor
Bluelight Crew
No I don't, I live in Australia and we smoke 'cones' as opposed to 'bowls'. A cone is essentially a one hitter bowl with a small hole and no screen. Basically the idea is you suck the flame onto it slowly and gradually increase how hard you suck until all the weed is cherried well, at this point you can remove the lighter and pull hard with the diaphragm and all the weed will burn up really quick and once its burnt the ash will pull through the little hole and into the bong water, making a distinct snap sound.
I don't know how you guys can be fucked tipping the ash out of every bowl and cleaning screens and all that bullshit, I am not hating, to each their own, but to me personally the way of doing things here seems simpler and more efficient.
I don't know how you guys can be fucked tipping the ash out of every bowl and cleaning screens and all that bullshit, I am not hating, to each their own, but to me personally the way of doing things here seems simpler and more efficient.
drug_mentor
Bluelight Crew
Most joint I have ever rolled (technically made when using this method lol) was emptying out cigarettes as I always found it very easy and it is also discrete.
What you want to do is cut a strip of thin carboard a few cms long and about as wide as the length of a cigarette butt. Roll up the cardboard as tight as you can, I find rolling it around a toothpick works well, you will end up with a small cardboard coil that is roughly the lenth of a cigarette filter.
Squeeze the butt of your now weed filled cigarette and the cotton inside the filter should protrude slightly, gently bite the cotton and pull it out with your mouth. Insert the cardboard coil you made earlier in where you just took out the cotton and you have a roach which wont filter any of your THC and a joint that looks pretty much identical to a normal cigarette.
What you want to do is cut a strip of thin carboard a few cms long and about as wide as the length of a cigarette butt. Roll up the cardboard as tight as you can, I find rolling it around a toothpick works well, you will end up with a small cardboard coil that is roughly the lenth of a cigarette filter.
Squeeze the butt of your now weed filled cigarette and the cotton inside the filter should protrude slightly, gently bite the cotton and pull it out with your mouth. Insert the cardboard coil you made earlier in where you just took out the cotton and you have a roach which wont filter any of your THC and a joint that looks pretty much identical to a normal cigarette.
Newbierock
Bluelighter
How can you be arsed to smoke like 3x as many 'bowl's is my question.
One average bowl can easily equal 4 or more cones. not trying to be a prick but those things are TINY.
One average bowl can easily equal 4 or more cones. not trying to be a prick but those things are TINY.
LogicSoDeveloped
Bluelighter
Not my thing either but I love spliffs, imo joints generally burn too fast. I use a bong or roll spliffs depending on how I feel. I've never done the cig thing but weed and tobacco roll well together.
^this is a sometimes forgotten wonder of hash oil.
I have this oil burner (meth pipe) that I smoke oil out of, and after smoking a few grams of oil through it I take a propane torch to the stem part of it. Bowls upon bowls can be smoked just from the resin. Its like washing out a vial of acid after your done with it. In other words, you get high as fuck.
drug_mentor
Bluelight Crew
Newbierock, a standard conepiece is pretty small but you can actually pack a fair bit into it if you try, also that is far from the only size we have and you get Aussie conepieces in sizes not much smaller than American bowls, regardless of the size of a cone it is expected that it will be finished in one pull. It always amuses me that the rest of the world try and shit on the size of our cones when they don't realise it is very common for Aussies to pull a bong that is half the size or more of an American 'bowl' in one hit when you guys seem to take a fuck load more than two hits to finish your 'bowl'.
Shit a few years ago a friend of mine had a nice glass on glass American bong and we managed to pull the screen out and so long as we used a chunky mix we could punch those things like an Aussie bong.
To me personally, I LOVE smoking bongs, one could say I am addicted to it, and as such I enjoy smoking a lot of them. But really it is not neccessary to smoke shitloads of tiny cones like a lot of the rest of the world seem to assume, and this isn't even the norm among many smokers.
We just feel it is cleaner and you get a nicer hit if everyone gets their own cone than all hitting the same stale bowl. I am not down on anyones different ways of smoking and so long as you are getting yourself stoned then go for it, but I wholeheartedly believe the way we do it down here is the best and most efficient way to smoke bud.
Shit a few years ago a friend of mine had a nice glass on glass American bong and we managed to pull the screen out and so long as we used a chunky mix we could punch those things like an Aussie bong.
To me personally, I LOVE smoking bongs, one could say I am addicted to it, and as such I enjoy smoking a lot of them. But really it is not neccessary to smoke shitloads of tiny cones like a lot of the rest of the world seem to assume, and this isn't even the norm among many smokers.
We just feel it is cleaner and you get a nicer hit if everyone gets their own cone than all hitting the same stale bowl. I am not down on anyones different ways of smoking and so long as you are getting yourself stoned then go for it, but I wholeheartedly believe the way we do it down here is the best and most efficient way to smoke bud.
Newbierock
Bluelighter
I Smoke just like you drug mentor, except big ass bowl instead of a big cone, with a screen in the bottom. ( Used to smoke it how you describe when I wasyounger, we called it shotty) but seemed a tad wasteful + the bong water needed constantly changing 
Can't imagine not smoking bowls in one hit, or passing the same bowl round...euurgh
Can't imagine not smoking bowls in one hit, or passing the same bowl round...euurgh
Doctor X
Bluelighter
I use one for my road piece, ie the old school metal one I'm not afraid to toss if I have to...
superyurtle
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I have never cleaned a screen, but I do have one bubbler that has a metal screen. I don't see the reason to clean it. Whenever I want to toke, and don't have bud, i just take a hit off the resin on the screen. That's only in REALLY desperate situations. I'd probably find somebody else to smoke with me before that happens.
I more than likely use my glass though.
I more than likely use my glass though.
drug_mentor
Bluelight Crew
Newbierock I don't tend to change my bong water too often unless I am using a small piece which I don't currently own one (not a water filtrated one anyway) but I dont find not using a screen particularly wasteful at all if you pack and pull the cone right. If you pull really soft until it is well lit and then rip it right then little, if any, weed should come through. Granted I like to smoke a bit of tobacco with my weed (shock horror in a bong! 
) and feel this aids it in burning quicker so you can get it lit really well easily without pulling hard on the bong.
I was under the impression a shotty was very similar to what we do here except you would not have a 'cone' or a 'bowl' but rather would ball up tobacco and place firmly this in the top of the stem, place some weed or hash (possibly mixed with tobacco? one would assume atleast with hash this would be the case) on top of the ball up tobacco and then smoke until you hit the tobacco and then pull it into the water. If this is the case, I can see that possibly being a bit more wasteful and certainly see why you would need to change the bong water more often due to pulling a considerable amount of unburnt material into it.
As much as anything I just find it convenient, occassionally I will "cash" a cone but not pull all or sometimes any of the ash through (this is often an indication the stem needs a clean) and generally I will stoke the hole in the cone and then just pull the ash through without application of flame. It just seems a lot easier to pull it through than fuck around with a bunch of ash, even if it did mean changing bong water slightly more often.
Thats just my view on things though and I used to smoke straight green and with screens and all that shit. It all gets you high and like everything else different people like doing it different ways for different reasons, there is nothing wrong with the way anyone does it if that is what works best for them. Personally I have just found this method of smoking the best for me.
) and feel this aids it in burning quicker so you can get it lit really well easily without pulling hard on the bong.I was under the impression a shotty was very similar to what we do here except you would not have a 'cone' or a 'bowl' but rather would ball up tobacco and place firmly this in the top of the stem, place some weed or hash (possibly mixed with tobacco? one would assume atleast with hash this would be the case) on top of the ball up tobacco and then smoke until you hit the tobacco and then pull it into the water. If this is the case, I can see that possibly being a bit more wasteful and certainly see why you would need to change the bong water more often due to pulling a considerable amount of unburnt material into it.
As much as anything I just find it convenient, occassionally I will "cash" a cone but not pull all or sometimes any of the ash through (this is often an indication the stem needs a clean) and generally I will stoke the hole in the cone and then just pull the ash through without application of flame. It just seems a lot easier to pull it through than fuck around with a bunch of ash, even if it did mean changing bong water slightly more often.
Thats just my view on things though and I used to smoke straight green and with screens and all that shit. It all gets you high and like everything else different people like doing it different ways for different reasons, there is nothing wrong with the way anyone does it if that is what works best for them. Personally I have just found this method of smoking the best for me.
Yeah, that's what a shotty is, although you often use a "bullet", a short length of tube with a collar so it sits inside the stem. You ball up baccy and plug the bullet, or push a cigarette inside and slice it off, then press it into your weed or hash, before putting the bullet back in the stem.
Ol' Blue Eyes
Greenlighter
A good old spliff shared with mates is they way forward, UK style! :D