so.... based upon my complaints about fat fingers and the tiny glass flowers and how hard it is to load a small load, i re-read a reply to my complaint from @
OF. i THINK i may have misread one his explanations on how to load a small load with the flowers. this how i was doing it BEFORE:
1) place two flowers in the bottom of the bowl stem up
2) fill with my herbs that i want to use
3) compress herb into a puck using the glass oil can
4) place two more flowers on the top stem down into the herb
now doing it this way was hard because after step 3 the load was compressed to half the bowl and trying to place two more flowers stem down (step 4) was hard to do cause my fat fingers were not nimble enough to get down there correctly. so i re-read a reply from @
OF again and think i found my issue. i retried it and so far its better. i need more flowers but i have enough as spares. here is my method to load NOW:
1) place two flowers in the bottom of the bowl stem up
2) fill with SOME (not all) of the herbs i plan to use
3) add two more flowers (does not matter which way the stem faces)
4) fill with the rest of the herbs i plan to use
5) place two more flowers in to the top of the load with the stems down
this method actually provided me with two benefits.....
1) because using more flowers (but the same amount herbs) and stacking like this... the load is closer to the top of the bowl and it makes it much easier to put the last two flowers in stems down
2) using my "before" method i could still occasionally have the rising puck issue and would have to tamp it back down. the new method does not have this issue