What Is A Plumbers Joint
A plumbers joint is joint that is rolled with a stick down the middle of it to maximize central airflow. Once the joint is rolled, the stick/wooden rod is removed, if done correctly, you should be able to see a hole directly down the center.
Why Use It
A properly rolled plumbers joint should help the joint burn more evenly and allow for bigger hits.
How To
What you will need: grinder, bud, paper, wooden dowel.
Place some ground up bud on the paper and do your best to keep it in a tight mound.
Place the wooden dowel on top of the bud.
Cover with a little more bud and roll up it up.
Should look something like this if rolled correctly.
Remove the wooden dowel gently.
You can begin to see the air pathway take shape.
Slightly more prominent in this picture.
Totally Fucked This Up
So what's the verdict? Well it's a bit inconclusive. The joint certainly did rip enough, but that could just be because I ended up rolling it so loosely. Why did I roll it so loosely? Well, I was supposed to use a bamboo skewer (would have been much longer and thinner), and that would have allowed me to use less bud. I couldn't roll the joint tightly because I ended up over packing the paper.
Another issue was the fact that the joint didn't exactly burn evenly. I had to keep lighting it on various sides to keep it from running. What explains this improper action is my failure to roll a piece of paper around the dowel. Had I not missed that step, paper would have remained when the dowel was extracted. This would have prevented the bud from caving in on the hole, thus allowing it to burn more evenly.
I will be trying this experiment again with the proper equipment.
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