Glass Tips & Filters: Your Secret to Better Joints
It is certainly no secret that Tako Glass is all about pipes. But sometimes, a pipe may not be the right tool for the job. Sure, bongs give clean hits, hand pipes are convenient, and chillums travel well in the pocket, but what about joints? Sometimes, a good hand rolled joint is exactly what you need to get the party rolling. Joints and blunts are easily shared, cheap to produce, and with modern medical and recreational cannabis dispensaries popping up on every block, prerolls are now easy to come by as well.
There are however, a few potential drawbacks to smoking rolled cannabis when compared to the use of pipes, such as uneven burning, loosely packed material falling out, or finger burns from holding the crutch too close to the ember. Prerolls are especially prone to these issues, and quality can vary from farm to farm, and even from batch to batch. Hand rolling can be a difficult skill to master, but doing so opens up a whole new world of options for the cannabis connoisseur.
This where is glass joint tips come in! These nifty little tools are known by several names: glass tip, glass filter, or glass crutch are among the more popular terms, and while there are subtle difference found among different styles of glass tips, they all provide similar benefits. Glass tips can help alleviate some of the drawbacks of joints and blunts. They provide a barrier to keep loose flower from passing through the joint tip, keep your fingers safely away from the burning ember, and because they are made of pure glass, you won’t taste any difference when you smoke the roach right to the bitter end.
There are essentially two common ways to use a glass joint tip, either by rolling the tip inside the joint or blunt, or by pressing a pre-rolled joint or blunt inside the glass tip. Glass crutches that are intended to rolled inside are often perfectly cylindrical, but some may also feature a flared mouthpiece. Cylindrical crutches can be included whether you are rolling by hand, or by using a joint rolling machine. Glass tips with a flared mouthpiece are best used when hand rolling only, as they may not allow a machine to properly operate and form the joint.
Glass joint holders that are intended to have a joint or blunt inserted into them are often conical in shape. This helps them hold onto and grip the paper crutch often found at the bottom of cone shaped pre-rolled joints. The main advantage to this style of glass tip is the ease of use, and quick re-use. These are also great for users that often purchase pre-rolls, and are not necessarily looking to get into hand rolling, but still want to have a pleasurable smoking experience. After all, everything is better with glass!
Glass joint tips offer a ton of advantages, with essentially no drawbacks(aside from needing to be cleaned fairly regularly) and offer an inexpensive way to upgrade your experience. Joints and blunts made with glass filters often burn more evenly due to having better and less restricted air flow. They also feel more premium to hold and to smoke. If you’ve never experienced the luxury of a glass tip, now is the time to treat yourself! We recommend grabbing more than one, so you can roll up a few sticks ahead of time! We also recommend keeping isopropyl alcohol handy so you can toss your glass tips in to soak after each use. Now that you know all the secrets, go forth, roll one up, and burn it down!
