A Gentleman's Rolling Paper Revue

Bodean

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have you tried King Palms or Lucky Eagle palm rolls? They are expensive (up to about $1 each), but they come ready to stuff and have a corn husk filter pre-installed. The thing I love about them is that they burn slow like a cigar and you can pack them pretty tight. The palm leaf also adds a nice taste to the burn that is nothing like the taste of burning paper. I used to buy King Palms but recently bought some of the Lucky Eagle brand, because they are less expensive, and I think they are just as good. The 0.5g "Little Minis" are also great to use as tasters. I pack those up for friends to try my latest harvests once they finish curing.

Here's the info for the Lucky Eagle brand and the sizes they come in.
I love those ? ?. Pricey, but they are a nice change up.
 
I love those ? ?. Pricey, but they are a nice change up.
I rarely smoke joints, because I am ridiculously sensitive to weed, but I've started using the palm rolls for CBD hemp flower and they make a nice relaxing smoke for that. I can't even handle a 0.5g joint anymore. I had one last week and my anxiety went through the roof. All I could think about was bills and my lack of preparing for retirement for about 2 hours after smoking it...but then it mellowed out and I felt fantastic :snoop:
 

Gentlemancorpse

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have you tried King Palms or Lucky Eagle palm rolls? They are expensive (up to about $1 each), but they come ready to stuff and have a corn husk filter pre-installed. The thing I love about them is that they burn slow like a cigar and you can pack them pretty tight. The palm leaf also adds a nice taste to the burn that is nothing like the taste of burning paper. I used to buy King Palms but recently bought some of the Lucky Eagle brand, because they are less expensive, and I think they are just as good. The 0.5g "Little Minis" are also great to use as tasters. I pack those up for friends to try my latest harvests once they finish curing.

Here's the info for the Lucky Eagle brand and the sizes they come in.
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I have not, but I definitely want to now!
 

OldG

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I rarely use my vape...i force myself to do it.

the volcano and the mighty and da budda all do it...dont get me wrong.

I love a bong rip or a pipe too but there is nothing...and i mean nothing that does it like a well crafted doob.

You can roll doobs with machines and shit but it is not well crafted. I like to take a piece of hash and roll it like a spagetthi strand...get a RAW tip and roll it nice and then fold and rip cleanly in half for 2 doobs.

Finely grind a wee bit in 1 grinder and more coarsely gind some in another.

Lay a fine bed of the rough stuff on the exterior...lay some finer stuff on that and put the hash spagetti in the centre...roll it up until that paper just touches and shut it down.

A solid 20 minute dog walker right there.
 
I rarely use my vape...i force myself to do it.

the volcano and the mighty and da budda all do it...dont get me wrong.

I love a bong rip or a pipe too but there is nothing...and i mean nothing that does it like a well crafted doob.

You can roll doobs with machines and shit but it is not well crafted. I like to take a piece of hash and roll it like a spagetthi strand...get a RAW tip and roll it nice and then fold and rip cleanly in half for 2 doobs.

Finely grind a wee bit in 1 grinder and more coarsely gind some in another.

Lay a fine bed of the rough stuff on the exterior...lay some finer stuff on that and put the hash spagetti in the centre...roll it up until that paper just touches and shut it down.

A solid 20 minute dog walker right there.
I haven't tried a volcano, or a mighty, but I've tried a few smaller form factor battery operated vapes, and the Magic Flight Launch Box and they never really did much for me. I liked the MLFB, but it blew through batterees and became a pain in the ass so I just stopped using it after a couple of weeks. The one vape I tried, and have stuck with daily over the last year or more, is the Dynavap M. It can get annoying to use with a torch, but it's fantastic with an induction heater, and it's perfect for people like me who can very easily get way too high. They are very expensive for what they are, IMHO, and they have a bit of a cult following, but I can't argue the fact that I use mine daily and prefer it over a bowl or a one hitter.
 

Gentlemancorpse

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I rarely use my vape...i force myself to do it.

the volcano and the mighty and da budda all do it...dont get me wrong.

I love a bong rip or a pipe too but there is nothing...and i mean nothing that does it like a well crafted doob.

You can roll doobs with machines and shit but it is not well crafted. I like to take a piece of hash and roll it like a spagetthi strand...get a RAW tip and roll it nice and then fold and rip cleanly in half for 2 doobs.

Finely grind a wee bit in 1 grinder and more coarsely gind some in another.

Lay a fine bed of the rough stuff on the exterior...lay some finer stuff on that and put the hash spagetti in the centre...roll it up until that paper just touches and shut it down.

A solid 20 minute dog walker right there.

A kindred spirit! Part of the appeal of smoking a joint to me is the actual process of rolling it
 

OldG

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I saved money on vapes for years

but a cheap box vape...and it sucked

magic flight box...when you pull out that rubber bit and figure it out..you can get really ripped on a flight box.

a bunch of others then i hit arizer...they are GOOD at everything...i still like blunts.

But the other 3 are good at getting baked like a doob and beyond.

Volcano will really get you there. But its right there

The mighty is the only handheld that can set off alarms that i own...the only one that can rip me like a doob in shorter order...i dont want to vape an hour i want to get high.

The da buddha has a learning curve...i will come back to it because HydroRed figured it out....and i want a vape every level...they take so much less weed i will have to pick up the pace.
 

Gentlemancorpse

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I'm slacking on this thread this week... to much going on IRL... Ill get caught up tonight or tomorrow with the papers of choice for the week ROOR 1 1/4" hemp!

For now, a quick wrap up on the Iries... excellent burn and flavor, slow and mild. But as the week wore on I did start to get frustrated with how they roll. Its real hard to roll a nice tight J with a filter with these... they slip a lot, and every once in a while you get a paper with crap glue...

Still, with 64 papers in the pack they're a great value, so they do edge out the Chills for me


Taste: Very Mild
Burn: Slow
Glue: Medium Hold (but inconsistent)
Ease of Use: Low
Cost: Low

TLDR; Slow burning paper thats a great value but takes some skill to roll well with
 

OldG

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I just got a pack of raw perforated wide tips. I used to use my business cards because i still have 975 of them from when i retired this year.

But they taste like crap when you get low...like bitterness :D ROFL

So i burned them in a fire. Those tips are pretty awesome.

And i make the rest of that doob as fat as i can in the raw paper with a tight little curly cue on the end of it...smooth as a machine.

I usually snip that off right before i go out to smoke it. I am only throwing out cardboard now and will it bake.

It will BAKE!

The Raw Natural 1 1/4 and even better are the organic ones. If i happen by Crazy Bills I will grab a 500 pack :D I love it too much to just go to a vape. I go to the vape 3 weeks before a doctors appointment :D
 

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Great thread @Gentlemancorpse. You have a knack for coming up with good thread ideas, much props.

I am a joint guy. Most preferred method of partaking. Blunts make me cough like a MF. Some of them are ok, like oldskool Optimos, Garcia y Vega w/ the candela leaf, etc. The current blunt wraps all make me cough. I do enjoy a good blunt every now n then though. I don't like bongs, and the pipes I hit are mostly spoons. Joints FTW.

The clear veggie "plastic papers" were pretty clean. Big con to them - they got hot AF so you can't smoke to the end even if you had welding gloves. Heats up to your face. With hand rolled joints in Zig Zag orange back in the day, I could smoke up the entire J, let my fingertips burn a bit, and toss up the last bit of it in the air as it burned up.

Crutch tips were a game changer. I didn't believe in them before, but then I tried them in a machine roller. Hand rolling 17 joints a day got really time consuming, and it fucked with my carpal tunnel. Don't get me wrong. I still hand roll as well, but that's mainly for when I'm feeling nostalgic or I'm at a buddy's house that doesn't have a roller w tips. Otherwise, the crutch tips have cut down on waste and keep from the more resinous strains from making your lips all resin'd up. Ya ppl can spot that shit, and it don't come off easy lol.

I find the smoking of a joint in itself to be pleasurable and comforting. So smooth and the flavor is so good. It's not the same in a bowl IMO. Yes, I've done the first hit in a bowl, then toothpick to "flip" the bud in the bowl for another green hit. A spoon pipe is always handy to have. But joints will always be my go to. As for vaporizers, I really like Da Buddha. Volcano is great, but very expensive and the bag deal is not my jam. The high is quite different w vaporized, there is something about combustion. Call me crazy, but I prefer combustion high. Maybe I need to try more vaporizing.
 

Gentlemancorpse

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@spyralout thanks man!

The only blunts I still enjoy are frontos but theyre few and far between... my girl doesn't like them and I can only smoke so many blunts to the dome haha...

I love my mini bong, especially packed with a big ball of hash... and my spoons get enough workout that theyre always clogged

But its still joints FTW ... I also just don't enjoy vaping... Ive never used a great vape so I'm open to giving it another shot but theres a visceral element to combustion smoking thats always missing
 

spyralout

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@spyralout thanks man!

The only blunts I still enjoy are frontos but theyre few and far between... my girl doesn't like them and I can only smoke so many blunts to the dome haha...

I love my mini bong, especially packed with a big ball of hash... and my spoons get enough workout that theyre always clogged

But its still joints FTW ... I also just don't enjoy vaping... Ive never used a great vape so I'm open to giving it another shot but theres a visceral element to combustion smoking thats always missing
much agreed. what is it about that joint? is it cuz we grew up w them? i don't think so cuz i did pipe bowls, cans, etc for a long time during those times - we've all been there. bong takes away smth, i know that they say water doesn't take away from the resin/trichs but man, bong hit is missing smth IMO. Plus they can make me cough, so wtf is the use?

Growing my own has been the ultimate game changer. White ash all day, and the mass amount i smoke. Just sometimes wish i had an insta-spray or some shit to get rid of the smell if i decide to go out, cuz even w legality looming everywhere, it takes time for acceptance, and not all counties/cities/ppl are accepting of stuff. sad, but true.

good shit man keep it comin, love your content :flame::phenohunt:
 

BogartAmungus

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I love me some doobies rolled with a ZigZag 1.0. I tried a couple others but for me the 1.o size is perfect and less paper taste. I want to taste the weed! Not paper or tobacco leaves. I don't see how anyone can smoke a blunt. Just my opinion. I hate the cigar paper/leaf taste. My buddy said I should try a Raw. I haven't looked into it yet but if it comes in a 1.0. I am game.
 

Gentlemancorpse

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much agreed. what is it about that joint? is it cuz we grew up w them? i don't think so cuz i did pipe bowls, cans, etc for a long time during those times - we've all been there. bong takes away smth, i know that they say water doesn't take away from the resin/trichs but man, bong hit is missing smth IMO. Plus they can make me cough, so wtf is the use?

Growing my own has been the ultimate game changer. White ash all day, and the mass amount i smoke. Just sometimes wish i had an insta-spray or some shit to get rid of the smell if i decide to go out, cuz even w legality looming everywhere, it takes time for acceptance, and not all counties/cities/ppl are accepting of stuff. sad, but true.

good shit man keep it comin, love your content :flame::phenohunt:

Honestly man I just find the whole experience of smoking more enjoyable when I force myself to slow down and roll a bone. You get to feel the weed, smell the terps... I always take a dry hit first and get that unique unlit weed taste, unmarred by resin. There's no other method that hits all those marks. A bowl always makes things feel rushed
 

Gentlemancorpse

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I love me some doobies rolled with a ZigZag 1.0. I tried a couple others but for me the 1.o size is perfect and less paper taste. I want to taste the weed! Not paper or tobacco leaves. I don't see how anyone can smoke a blunt. Just my opinion. I hate the cigar paper/leaf taste. My buddy said I should try a Raw. I haven't looked into it yet but if it comes in a 1.0. I am game.

You should definitely try Raws, or really any of the hemp or rice papers on this list. They don't roll as easy as the classic Zig Zag but once you switch you'll be amazed at how much paper you were actually tasting before... Imo anyways.

These all come in 1.0s, I just roll with the 1.25s because I roll a lot of small cones and the 1.0s often don't quite reach haha
 

Gentlemancorpse

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So here we are! This week were rolling with the ROOR papers ... gonna have to email Samsung and tell them I need a backwards R on my keyboard!

Anywho, these papers are distinctly different from the last two in both appearance and feel... 20200825_202749.jpg 20200825_203017.jpg
They lack the linear patterns of the last two papers and look more akin to ultra thin construction paper... but they are insanely smooth to the touch... very unique for a rolling paper.

First impressions are these roll the most like a classic Zig Zag so far, very easy to spin up. Fairly mild taste but definitely more noticeable than the Iries. Likewise they burn a little quicker, but its a nice, even ashless burn. They feel thicker than the Chills but burn about the same which is interesting. I should really follow through on @coste idea to measure the paper thickness but ... well... I havent yet... cause I got high

The glue on these works very well, its also a noticeably larger glue strip, which honestly I dont love and may be part of why these have a stronger taste than the last two, but thats just conjecture
 

coste

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You can figure out what the unicode representation is for the backwards R. Most modern browsers parse unicode fine, so you won't end up with an artifact instead of a letter ;) just throwing that out theяe
 
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