How to make a homemade weed grinder
There really is no homemade substitute for weed grinders like the ones featured on this site, however there are a couple tricks that can hold you over until your grinder arrives.
One homemade technique is to use scissors and a shot glass. It can be somewhat of a pain to get the optimum density and you have to be very careful not to spill it everywhere, but it is better than using your fingers. This method tends not to work so well for dense and compacted buds.
Another homemade option is using an electric coffee grinder. It will do a better job on dense buds than the scissors, but with this method you have to be extremely careful not to over do it. With a coffee grinder is far too easy to turn your buds into dust.
The best method is without a doubt purchasing a real weed grinder. You never have to worry about spilling or overgrinding, as the grinder will always deliver perfectly ground buds every time no matter how dense or sticky. In addition, most grinders have a kief catcher that will collect the highly potent pollen crystals that fall off during the grinding process.
This requires a little MacGyver ingenuity, but is worth the effort. A trick I found is to get an old 35mm film canister – though hard to find this is necessary. Then, at a hardware store, like Ace Hardware, True Value, even Home depot and Lowes… they sell window screen repair kits. Its just a little swatch of steel mesh about 2 inches by 4 inches you use to repair tears in a window screen; they come in a three-pack sometimes for like $2. Get that, or if you have an old screen just cut a little section out. Don’t destroy your mom’s windows! Now pop the lid off the film canister and lay one of the window screens over the opening. Now slowly push down with your thumb to form a sort of bowl into the film canister. Then fold the top edges of the screen down over the edge of the can and secure them with a rubber band.
Now you can drop a little nug into the basket and grind it down through the mesh. This is similar to using a mortal and pestle to crush your nug, only it doesn’t crush it to dust, it crushes it down through the screen. This will create a very uniform but fine grind. Perfect for vaping! It collects in the film canister, and you can then just cap it and keep your grinds there. Its even airtight! If you don’t want to grind with your fingers because you don’t want them to get sticky, use something like a fat pen or magic marker, or a AA battery, or anything similar to grind it through the screen.
I’ve done something similar. I went to staples and in the stationary area I found these metal mesh desk accessories, like a pencil cup, a cd holder, a file folder holder, and a business card holder. I got the business card holder one, and lay it on its side and put a playing card into the middle area where you’d put business cards, then put the buds on top and crush them through the screen with the bottom of a shot glass. It isn’t as fine a screen as the window screen stuff – so that means my grinds aren’t as fine, but I like them as they are, also perfect for vaping! The screen is also pretty solid, I can really push on it and don’t have to worry about it flexing or breaking from the buds, and even the driest most compact buds eventually succumb to rubbing them on that screen and they fall through in perfect little shavings. Then I just take out the playing card with all the ground up herb on it, and dump it into my stash jar.
Thank you blankman, thats what i needed.
-Blaze one
my dad chews tabacco and the two improvised grinders i made were pretty simple
take a can of chewing tabacco and large staples…stabb them into the can on bth sides either by hand or with the stapler….dont use the bottom hlf of the stapler!!! it will flatten the staple haa…the next is another can of chew and get small screws ( screws are important because they will shred unlike nails) and screw them into the can and enjoy
PS YOU HAVE TO FIGURE OUT AND PATTERN INWICH THE SCREWS OR STAPLES WILL NOT JAM INTO EACH OTHER OR IT WONT WORK!! and thats my homemade grinder…ENJOY fellow tokers:D
lol just wanted to say that as i read through these homemade grinder ideas, i literally have a can of dip, screws, and a mesh pencil cup holder sitting right next to my laptop
with a chew baccer can use the flat thumbtacks and poke em through a note card (cut it to fit in the can) then hot glue it in. do it for both sides.
eyy man i hav an i dead if you can get ahold of a ring like just a circular one you can lay your pot down and roll over it a couple of times thats what i do and it works fine!!
(420 4eva)
wow i just hapen to have a dip can
Just stfu and buy a fucken grinder !
Token d fie is speaking the truth u broke ass niggers just fucken buy a grinder noobies
Smoke weed everyday
I actually just used a marble herb grinder. It’s like a bowl with ridges on the inside and it comes with a marble stick as well. Just put in your buds, and grind it up! There cheap too, I found mine on the internet for like $12
dude i think i know what those are. We used them to grind up pills n shit.
i use a deck screw, pinch the pot between your fingers and shave the buds with the spirals on the deck screw, anyone outside newfoundland use this method? it works better than my store bought buster and costs 5 cents
Just like most peeps are saying, just buy a grinder! You can afford green but not a grinder? WTF
Ya niggas r cheap buy a fucking grinder ^__^
haha would a can of beef jerky work lol
why buy a grinder when we can make a sick MacGyver one. stop bitching at us for being cheap on a thread about homemade grinders. why did u type in “how to make a homemade grinders” if you are against them anyway. u sirs, are retards
guys cant we all get a long and smoke some green?
Put on a pair of gloves and roll the weed around the palm of your hands and a mini colander to sift the stems and seeds out
Every thread, no matter about what, will always have someone starting some kind of problem! like clockwork, maaaan
get the fuckin slap chop. slap yo weed all grinded down niggahs
wtf just buy a grinder. less time making one = more time to get high!
a metal colander and anything you can use to not rub your fingers raw. The wholes are just big enough to let a perfect grind through, but usually not to big for the seeds and stems
pass it
i mean holes…
why are you guys spending money on stuff to make a grinder when you could buy a grinder from a flea market for like 5 bucks
I use an old tin can, cut it about 3/4 of an inch from the end, then cut jagged lines 1/4′ into the fresh cut ends, fold the jagged ends in so they don’t collide when you twist it, put bud in the center, twist it on its side, and it’ll all get grinded up fine.
ps. as an added touch, you can put the can inside the best fitting piece of PVC pipe.
sum of this stuff is hard to do high
Rub it agianst your nuts and it grinds really nicely put in your bong and smoke your of
jack doyle is a middle aged black child.
“@heavy ass toker you probly never even seen weeed in person wtf is rub it agianst your nuts are u fuckin retarded
Just use an axe real fast or buy a Mendo.
i’ve used one of those enclosed-twist style cheese graders
we should all hang out some time
with alll of the diversity and wut not
Anybody no the price for 10 gs of ak47??
There are some great ideas in here, and some not so great ideas, but props to those who are still creative and have some ingenuity. Screw the nay-sayers. People uninterested in making a homemade grinder should just ignore this post … OBVIOUSLY
smoke papers…!!!
I use a pill grinder just put in and grind works grrat
If you have a utility knife or razorblades, it will slice through like butter…still prefer my grinder though.
i know what u guys should use for a grinder A BLENDER yea or no
I just made a great grinder out of some regular lego bricks and special lego gears and axles.
I was in a pinch and i needed to grind my weed but didnt have a grinder. I ended up using a pill bottle and a quarter and shook it, this method works perfectly every time.
get a shot glass, put ur bud in the shot glass and chop it up with some sissors found around the house.
Me use the slapchop man. Its fun as hell and does a pretty good job
Hey u know wat i did? i took a metal pellet can and washed it real well then i took some really short screws and screwed them in both sides of the can (which is similar to a can of dip)in the pattern of my friends grinder and it grinds better than my friends grinder lol. it works wonders and barely cost anything.
wtf pot heads are sick man we come up wit sick shit
I smoke 2 joints wen I wake up in da car I smoke 2 joints I smoke 2 joints wen I play video games and evry 10,000 points I smoke 2 joints in time of peace and 2in time of war I SMOKE 2 JOINTS BEFORE I SMOKE 2 JOINTS AND THAN I SMOKE 2 MORE
I FUKIN LOVE DRUGS WEED, COCAINE ,METH , HEROINE, LSD THE MOST
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