Rolling a burnoff

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The Seven Steps To Rolling A Burnoff or Tearoff

One - Fixing a Filter Tip

Take the strip of card paper, and tear a small piece off a corner, in the same oblong shape as the paper. The piece is about 1cm long, 5mm wide. There's now a smaller strip at the end of the original strip, and you fold that back and front, like the airbag of an accordion. You keep folding until about a quarter of the whole strip of paper is folded back and front, starting at the narrower end. Press that tiny accordion flat, and roll the not-folded end of the strip all the way around it fairly tightly. You get a cylindrical shape of about 5mm in diameter, with an accordion-fold grate inside it. That's your filter.

Two - Preparing the Rolling Paper

You're going to roll this joint using the inside-out method, it is hard to master but it makes all the difference. Take the long, thin rolling paper and look at it. It's creased along the length in the middle, and it has a sticky strip along the length at one edge. You ignore the way the paper was originally folded and you fold it sharply along the same line through the middle, but in exactly the other direction, inverting the crease. Now, the sticky strip faces outward instead of inwards. Put down the paper, making sure that the sticky strip faces away from you. You may want to fold it flat on the table, not erasing the crease along the middle but opening it up a little.

Three - Preparing a Blend

Marijuana

The blend is the most important thing in the joint. It is not the most difficult, but it is the most subject to personal taste. The tobacco is needed to keep the joint burning, but it suppresses the effect of the cannabis, and gives you more of a down 'stoned' side. On a saucer, pulverise as much marijuana as you wish to put in the joint. Be careful the first few times, since the effect is cumulative, it can be completely different from one occasion to the next, and too much may send you spinning, absolutely ruining the effect. It's also potentially dangerous. When you have enough on the saucer (about five-six teaspoons should do), add the tobacco from the filter cigarette. Blend the two together in a smooth, even mix.

Hashish

This is different, since you can't blend the two on a saucer as easily as with marijuana. So you wait with the blending until the tobacco is spread out on the rolling paper (step four), and then hold your hashish over a lighter (a few seconds) to heat it, and crumble it off grain by grain, sprinkling it over the tobacco in an even spread, covering your tobacco - and your fingers - with sticky hashish specks.

Four - Filling the Joint

Put the filter (the one you made, not the cigarette filter) close to (but not quite at the edge of) one end of the rolling paper, making sure the open end (without the small accordion grate) of the filter faces the end of the rolling paper. You see, the tiny grate inside the filter acts as a barrier for the blend, so it doesn't slip through the filter. The open end allows for a smooth draw. Roll the rolling paper back and forth around the filter a few times so that the two 'get used to each other'.

Put the paper with the filter back on the table, and fold open the paper, not letting the filter slip out. With two fingers, hold the filterless end of the rolling paper open, and with your other hand, add the tobacco-marijuana blend (or just tobacco for hashish users). Make an even spread of the blend over the rolling paper, leaving no space between the filter and the tobacco. (Hashish-users should sprinkle the hashish over the tobacco now, in a narrow line along the middle of the blend.) Pack the blend against the grate-end of the filter. This will make your joint solid and well-shaped. The amount of blend should be ever so gradually growing towards the open end (where your two fingers are) of the rolling paper, so your joint will have a slight conical shape. Leave about 1cm length of the open end empty, because the length of the blend-line will grow as you actually close and roll the joint.

Five - Rolling the Joint

On your table in front of you is a rolling paper with a filter at one and, a short length of empty paper at the other, and a nice, densely packed line of blend in between. Now comes the trickiest part - the rolling.

Pick the rolling paper with everything in it up with both hands, each end between your thumb and middle finger. Let both ends rest on your ring fingers, and relax your grip a little. Place your index fingers between the folds of the rolling paper, holding them open.

Now, slide your fingers towards the middle of the joint, making a rolling movement. When in the middle, slide back towards the ends. Same rolling movement. Notice the length of the body of blend grows as you slide your fingers out, so when you reach the ends again, push the blend back in with your index finger. If you put in too much, the blend will spill over the edge of the paper, take it out and use again for another time.

Do this until your joint starts to take shape. The grate inside the filter should always be tightly hugging the blend. The blend diameter at the filter end of the rolling paper should be the same as the diameter of the filter. The filter should always be close, but not quite at the edge of its end of the paper.

When the shape looks good, change your grip. Now you should have both ends resting on your middle fingers, holding them between your thumbs and index fingers. If you press your thumbs and index fingers together, the rolling paper closes. Relax your grip a little, then slide both hands towards the middle and out again. Now a little blend, no longer held in by your index finger in the earlier grip, may spill over. You'll use the cigarette filter to stuff it back in later.

By now the shape should be good, and the feel of the joint should be solid, like a filter cigarette. The paper is rolled around the whole thing tightly, and the filter is packed neatly against the blend. The joint is slightly conical, and the long edges of the rolling paper are brushing against each other every time you roll from the ends to the middle and back.

Six - the Licking

This part is almost as tricky as the rolling, but good rolling makes for easier licking. You should be holding your joint with the sticky strip along the length of the rolling paper facing out, not in, and away from you. Now, roll the joint so that the paper edge with the sticky strip gets smaller, and the side facing you grows. When the sticky side is small enough, roll back the other way, but (and this is tough) make sure that the sticky strip is rolled under the fold facing you. Learn to do this in one smooth roll, because once you start fidgeting to get the sticky strip under, it'll all go bad. This will probably go wrong a couple of times. It doesn't matter, so don't sweat. Really, try not to sweat, because sweaty hands are terrible for rolling.

Once you finally get the fold with the sticky strip rolled neatly under the fold facing you, roll it over further, all the way until you can see the sticky strip re-appearing. You'll see it through the outer layer of paper, because the paper is so thin. And here's the beauty of rolling inside out: you can wet the sticky strip from without, licking in one smooth lick from filter to open end, your saliva seeping through the outer layer, wetting and gluing the sticky strip to the outer layer simultaneously. You don't need a lot of saliva, just make sure the entire length of sticky is taken care of.

Seven - Tearing off Excess Paper

Rolling paper is of course necessary, but it makes the smoke taste bad, and gives you a headache. The reason why the inside-out method is cherished by many who know it, is not because it's so fiendishly difficult, but because it allows you to keep the amount of paper used to a minimum. The outer layer is wet, right along the line of the sticky strip, so the paper is tender there. Carefully, or in one firm stroke, tear off the strip of excess paper that is not rolled around the joint.

Finishing Touches

Almost done... You kept the filter close to, but not quite at the edge of the rolling paper all the way through the process, so there's a little excess paper there. Fold it inside the filter cylinder, making the joint sturdier.

At the other end, use the cigarette filter in the opening to stuff spilling blend back in, or pack the blend a bit denser. When that is done, take the excess paper at the open end, and using your thumb and index finger, close that end firmly, then twist tightly to close to take the joint with you easily, or for immediate smoking, twist and then bite it off.

Hopefully, the above steps have brought you the best joint you have ever smoked in your life, with a smooth draw, good clean taste and a nice high effect, without being completely stoned. The best advice to give you if it won't work out the way you want it is to take your time, and try every step a few times until it's completed all the way, because each step carried out well eases the way for the next.

[Stereoptix]

Otherwise known as a backflip.........

[ipper]

Could we possible have pics, I work a lot better with pics.

Also does anyone know were you can get books on different rolls? like Tulips and so on.

[natbo]

here is a site that has different rolls-


http://legalize.icelord.net/handbook/map.php

[Big Paz]

THNS FOR THT M will be rolling 1 of den tonight

[Weedguru Higher]

and that takes how long?

[weedfish]

im guessing this is what you do the day before, is it not??

yeah get some pics, i really need 2 know how to roll because i cant do it to save my life!!!!