Made my first twist this morning

My shredder wore out last night when I was shredding a bunch of whole leaf. It'll take a week to get another one here in the mail. I carefully cleaned all the paper bits out of my little desktop paper shredder and washed the receptacle bin and used it to shred some leaf on a trial run. It did a pretty good job, but some of the pieces were too long for packing a pipe easily. So I put a handful at a time in my tobacco-dedicated blender and gave it a short burst at high speed; the pieces came out just right for smoking:
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Then I watched some YouTube videos on rope making and gave it a shot. The core consists of three types of Virginia: red, orange and lemon and the wrapper is Kentucky Fire Cured:
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https://s25.postimg.cc/6m6v7dzkf/Twist_002.jpg

Sliced some off, diced it up and tried a bowl... not bad. I thought it might be bitey, but it wasn't.

Very cool John. Looks pretty good!

Yep, kinda looks like a turd. Just like they're sposta.
Did you douse it in dark rum?

Wow, that looks good. I'd be curious to see how one would be with some age on it. Very nice.

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Originally Posted by Emperor Zurg

Yep, kinda looks like a turd. Just like they're sposta.
Did you douse it in dark rum?

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No, I didn't think of that at the time.

Very good work @Haebar !

& your use of the paper shredder made me LOL but if it works, it works. I've used a pasta cutter myself for the same purpose, which also works, but tends to wear out the bearings.

So it's essentially a cigar you sick in a pipe. Very cool and I've never seen it done before.

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Originally Posted by Regiampiero

So it's essentially a cigar you sick in a pipe. Very cool and I've never seen it done before.

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Generally you chop up sections of it into little pieces to smoke it in your pipe.