Oh Amy..... WooHoo!
And thank you for understanding. I sometimes have to remind myself that my friends know what I do beyond this journal and don’t take offense when I miss out.
You are talented in a way I can’t begin to see myself. Well done.
Share that picture with MagicJim, if you haven’t already. He’s the proud papa that made the plant produce those seeds.
Rosin is the name we use for pressed oils, but they’re concentrated cannabis oils in their pure form, made without solvents that require purging.
Pure medicine.....
SweetSue goes solventless 
Hash Hound found time to come over and do the initial squish with us. I’ve never worked with a torch before and felt safer having him around.
Turned out to be a good thing too. The torch turned out to have a leaky valve, turning it into a flame thrower.
A quick trip to the store and a better torch later - one with a push button - we got to the job of pressing some cannabis oil.
The paper weighed in at 3 grams, kinda waffling between 2 and 3.
When working with dense buds you need to break them up. The creator says you don’t need to bust up fluffier flowers, which these were, but I figured if I did so it’d make it easier for the oil to be released.
Place the Slug on a piece of parchment paper and begin to fill the cylinder with your flowers. Every so often tamp the blossoms down, but not so hard that they’re pressed all the way through.
You load the tamper with the top piece inverted. This gives you something to grab hold of when you’re done. You want to get the puck out ASAP so it doesn’t cook the terps out.
When you have it mounted and ready to go and apply the flame, keep it away from the paper. Lol!
There’s a half dollar mounted behind the paper. We figured out that the backside with the eagle offers more surface texture, which we believe helped the oils seep out easier than a solid flat piece would. We may be wrong in that assessment, but it sounded good. Lol!
The coin is on the vice, the parchment paper over top, folded back to keep it away from the flame.
You can see there’s a small fold on the bottom to catch the dripping oil. So the top is folded away and the bottom is folded towards the Slug.33.
The flame is applied for 1 minute, slowly turning the crank. You don’t want to crank all the way to the end until you’ve turned the flame off. This gives a few seconds for the oil to start running.
Like this.
You can see it’s still bubbling.
It weighs less than 0.10 grams, which is theoretically .33 or so of the available oil in this single gram of Blue Dream.
That means the puck is loaded with over 65% of wat the buds had to offer. They’re in a big jar, to be accumulated and made into oil for edibles, most likely brownies.
It was so much fun we had to do it again.
The dark spots you see on the cylinder are melted rubber. We dropped the Slug.33 and it melted the floor tiles. Lol! The thing got hot.
You’d think we’d have paid closer attention to that, but the excitement was high and we weren’t thinking as clearly as we might have. Lol!
The second attempt garnered very close to the original press, but by using a cylinder that was already too hot to touch we overheated the buds and burned off most of the terpenes. Lesson learned: let the cylinder cool down completely between pressings.
Ain’t it pretty?
As soon as you’re done you want to pull the tamper out, remove the end piece and flip the cylinder over so you can use the tamper to shove the puck out before it cooks away.
A few minutes later Hash Hound checked the temperature of the metals and they were all too hot to touch. They were so hot by this time that even the leather didn’t help much.
I’ll be purchasing a silicone mat to drop the pieces on to when I’m done. Today I simply kept an eye on them for a few minutes, moving them around so they didn’t set the yarn on fire. Lol!
When you’re done pressing toss the piece of parchment paper into the freezer or do what my daughter did and grab an ice pack.
The daughter smiled.
She’d forgotten she still had some wax bits to use too.
This was delicious fun. Thank you
@Dirtdemon.
Your generous gift will brighten our lives in ways you didn’t imagine when you placed the order. Thank you from the bottom of my heart, and all the rest of me.
Tomorrow I’m making Carnival oil.
Sending 
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If that wasn’t a pun.......
