Hi all,
I’ve just ordered the vapour genie Sherlock pipe With the concentrate pad
Haven’t taken dmt before but have tried most other psychedelics,

Just looking some instructions on how to set this pipe up for smoking dmt
Which lighter to use and any other info anyone wants to share

Thanks again

Under the glass slide, be sure to place about 5 or 6 screens. Then place your deems on the top screen and put the glass slide back on top. Use a torch lighter. Hold the lighter about 3 to 4 inches away from the rim above the slide and provide a steady inhale. And you're off!

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Hello and welcome!

Here's a few links I found by typing "GVG" into the subject field of the Search function:

GVG Lighter Technique
GVG Sherlock simple questionGVG without ceramic filter.

Hope they start getting you moving in the right direction, there's plenty more to be found with a more nuanced used of search terms. Plus, if you're lucky, someone might chime in with a more direct answer before long.

EDIT: VM beat me to it. He's good like that

As are you since you one-upped me

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Do NOT use a typical flint aka 'BIC' lighter, in fact, I'd say it's better to use a torch lighter. But if not torch, at the very least a 'clicky' type. Or if you must use a flint lighter get some hemp wick and use that to heat the ceramic element. With a bit of practise you'll get the technique down pat in no time.

I guess that flint(dust) is some sort of very not healthy substance. Which speeds up the process of plugging up the ceramic element. There was a time where I emailed the makers of the GVG to see if they could sell me one of those ceramic elements and they do if you can prove you own a GVG but best just to not plug it up in the first place.

Also if you have a 'typical' non torch lighter (the yellow flame kind) I would not be sucking that flame into the ceramic element too much, they produce soot that will plug up the ceramic with time, reducing the airflow eventually to nothing. I used the hemp wick for a long long time, people said it was okay and in my experience it seems to be true. Just be careful, the hemp wick does produce ash and I was always extra careful not to get that in the ceramic part.

I was curious on this one thing though, I had a torch lighter that you had to hold the button in order for it to keep the flame going... but it got ruined. My current lighter has a slide on/off switch that requires a tiny bit of dexterity to turn off. Is this a bad idea with spice...? I figure there should be enough time to click the switch to the off position before takeoff but ... I consider myself to be still a spice noob, have yet to break through still. Is there anyone that would be strongly averse to such a lighter?

I'd be extremely reluctant to use the flame lock with a torch lighter if about to enter hyperspace. The fire risk is simply too great. The device must extinguish automatically.

Thanks for your pertinent observations about other lighter types and the ceramic discs, they are well worth highlighting. Lighter 'flints' consist of ferrocerium (or they should do, as far as I'm aware) and it certainly seems best to avoid inhaling cerium oxide dust as a matter of course.

I guess I oughta get meself a new lighter then! I have had a hard time breaking through so far, seems like I got some crazy 'tolerance' or something, and felt like I always had time but still... I've had a time where I was caught off guard... and admittedly things get discombobulatory very quickly - better safe than sorry!

Any yeah, for sure, don't wanna breathe in that flint dust... it's not the good spice

Eh, it builds character

I find torch lighters can be finicky sometimes, so when using my gvg I keep an extra one near in case the one being used decides to crap out in the moment.

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I'm sure we've all breathed in some of it on occasion And yes, the torch lighters do have a 'funny' way of not working just when you want them to. For... reasons... but one of them tends to also be flipping them upside down, at least the ones I had would not stay lit for more than a few seconds in the inverted position. Had to adjust my technique, to holding the GVG on a sideways slant.

On that front, I ordered the 'pocket GVG' or GVG 2.0 because my old one 'exploded' after some rough handling. It actually survived a lot of rough handling but they do break after one too many 'incidents.' Alas, the new one works quite well, but if I could have, I would have just waited out, it's nice to see the vapor and the 'pocket' version is kinda hard to do that with. Also, the pocket version doesn't really stand upright, which was nice with the original.