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Tips for a beginner?

Beginner here, Ive managed to get some fishscale and cooked it using spoon method, got a nice yellow blob and waiting for it to dry now.

After searching around i found multiple threads saying a straight pipe with some copper from speaker wires rolled into a ball and shoved down my pipe will work best. So i got that part covered,

what im more confused about is how to burn the rock, ive tried melting it onto my chore and then heating the bottom of the glass just where it is but realised i don't get much smoke off that ( by looking at how much smoke runs along the pipe) .

and ive tried heating the bottom of the glass until it starts to smoke and then i move the flame to at least 1 cm in front of the entrance and sometimes have the flame on the chore for a second and take it off, i have noticed there is heaps of smoke and my hits are harder. everyone on the fourms keep saying its best to have no indirect flame as it burns everything.

im confused here

Also, people say the chore stops the residue from sliding down my pipe but no matter what method i choose to smoke, there is always residue still running down the pipe.