At present, the primary methods for producing bamboo stick incense are as follows:
1. Traditional handmade fragrance pouring technique.
2. Manual powder coating and mechanical bucket making.
3. Pressure (hydraulic, pneumatic) machine strike. The method produces products with a diameter of less than four millimeters, and the grain production is generally higher than the third type, with a higher labor intensity. The bamboo stick fragrance produced by the third method only needs appropriate ingredients, and the resulting product is more evenly lubricated, with consistent size and fineness. I think the following points should be noted.

1. Reasonable ingredients should be prepared based on the characteristics of different adhesive powders used. Due to the different gelatinous properties and properties of different adhesive powders, the same adhesive powder may have different origins and batches with different viscosities. If the same ratio is used for all, problems may arise at times. For example, it is easy to stick together into clumps, rot heads, feet, flesh, etc. Making incense does not necessarily mean that the stickiness of the powder is better. The ingredients should be stirred evenly. Although some masters can use their experience to make each incense evenly spread, if not handled properly, it can easily cause the areas with more wood powder to melt into water and the areas with more powder to stick together, resulting in the fragrance appearing uneven and uneven, and the resulting fragrance is not smooth and smooth enough.
2. Grasp the base powder well, add meat powder, and cover the flour with the same amount of force as the base powder, followed by meat powder, and cover the flour slightly weaker. If the meat powder has a stronger adhesion than the base powder, it is easy to rot and smell, and the cover flour has insufficient adhesion and is prone to powdering.
3. Selection of Bamboo Hearts: In traditional bamboo stick making, there is a saying of "one bamboo, two ingredients, and three skills". Choose bamboo sticks that are uniform in size, without bamboo green or smudged bags. Bamboo sticks with bamboo green are not easy to powder on one side of the bamboo green, have poor adhesion, and are prone to rotting fragrance. The smudged bags are mostly soft and prone to insect infestation.
4. Control of water intake: When lowering the water tray, the entire bamboo stick and incense should be evenly drained. After the water tray is released, it should be inverted to allow the water to flow back evenly before adding powder to prevent large heads, tails, and bellies.
5. Selection of Cover Flour: Cover flour should have a satisfactory fineness, which can easily make it fragrant and smooth. If it is used to produce color fragrance, light wood powder or bamboo powder should be selected to make the color more vivid and bright. After distribution, it should be sieved.
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