Wood Filter Tips for Pre-Rolls
Posted by Custom Cones USA on Jul 21st 2025
Want an upgrade to your pre-roll line that creates a premium product but still maintains a natural feel on the lips while smoked? Believe it or not, the answer is as simple as a wood filter tip.
A wood filter tip not only helps block particles and other “Scooby Snacks” from coming through but also helps to cool the smoke before it gets to the lungs. Add in the natural feel of wood and it’s an instantly memorable smoking experience, no matter what shape filter, cone size or customization you choose for your brand.
But with so many choices, it’s hard to know what wood filter is the right one for your product line.
Good news, the Pre-Rolls Experts are here to help.
Why Use Wooden Filter Tips?
Adding a filter tip to any pre-roll elevates the experience from a common session to a premium one. It’s an instant upgrade from a “w” paper filter, immediately noticeable by the additional weight and the fact that the crutch or filter does not crush as it is passed around.
As noted, wood filter tips, especially those with a dual spiral filter inside, help block particles from coming through and help cool the smoke slightly before it is inhaled, providing a smoother smoke. And because it is wood, the porous interior provides additional opportunities to grab small particles or resin before it gets through.
And while the cooling properties of wood are not as strong as glass or ceramic filter tips, a wood filter tip still has low thermal conductivity, so it stays cool, and an internal structure with lots of air pockets, to further prevent heat buildup.
Additionally, a wood filter tip feels more natural and familiar on the lips than its heavier, smoother cousins.
Wood is also a sustainable resource and therefore might be a more suitable choice for companies and brands that play up their environmentally friendly nature. At Custom Cones USA, our wood filter tips are all made with premium American birch.
Finally, a wood filter tip also offers the ability to add a little flavor into a pre-roll with vanilla and sugar flavored wood options. And because the flavor is infused into the wood filter tip alone, that flavor stays on the lips and never gets in the way of the flower you pack into your pre-rolled cone, tube or blunt.
Wood Filter Tips Fit in Pre-Roll Machines
While the decision to upgrade or add a new production line to your pre-roll brand may in the past have caused major disruptions to your current facility, many modern pre-roll machines can easily handle wood filter tips.
For example, while a Knockbox cannot fill cones and tubes with glass filter tips, both the King Kone and Fill N’ Fold pre-roll filling machines will fill them, though additional accessories may be required depending on the shape and size of the specific cone or tube you are working with, such as a tube conversion kit.
Available Wood Filter Tip Pre-Rolled Cones
Custom Cones USA offers a large selection of wood filter tip products in multiple sizes, shapes and paper types, so there’s something for every pre-roll brand.
The most common shape for wood tips is the flat mouth style, with the wood filter tip shaped to fit perfectly between the lips like an old school cigarette holder or a classic Black & Mild. And in most cases, the wood filter tip is a dual filter, with a paper spiral inside to catch even more resin and particles from getting through. They can be used in cone-filling machines like the Fill N’ Fold and King Kone, but not the Knockbox.
We carry several different sizes and paper types of these special dual wood filter tips. They are available in both 90mm (1-gram) and 109mm (about 1.3-1.5-grams) sizes in refined white, natural brown and 100% organic hemp paper. They are also available in our dark brown and standard brown hybrid hemp wrap, designed to stay fresher longer than other hemp wraps.
Available Wood Filter Tip Pre-Rolled Tubes
While the pre-rolled cones provide a familiar shape and feel, the pre-rolled tube brings out the best in a wood filter tip. There’s something about the shape that feels natural in a pre-roll, especially in a pre-rolled blunt tube.
Custom Cones USA offers two different wood filter tip shapes as part of its pre-rolled tube collection, and three different flavor options, in various sizes and shapes.
There are pre-rolled smoking tubes with wood filter tips available in refined white paper and natural brown, as well as both standard brown hemp wrap and green hybrid hemp wrap, specially designed to stay fresh and pliable longer than standard hemp wraps. They are available in two different sizes. Both are 109mm in length, but we offer a 9mm diameter wood filter tip and an 11mm diameter wood filter tip. The 9mm wood tip tubes will hold about a gram, while the 11mm tubes will hold about 2-grams, give or take particle size and moisture content.
The standard brown hemp wrap pre-rolled tubes, made from 100% European-sourced hemp, also come with your choice of natural wood, sweetened wood or vanilla-flavored wood, with the flavor infused directly into the American birch wood filter tips so it stay on the lips and never interferes with the taste of your flower.
For something a bit different, Custom Cones USA also offers a 109mm hemp wrap tube or 109mm hybrid hemp wrap tube (brown or green) with an 11mm wood cylinder wood filter tip with a dual paper spiral filter to better block particles and catch resin. With an 11mm diameter on the wood filter tip, these bad boys hold up to 2-grams of flower and really look and feel great in your hands and on your lips.
Customizing Wood Filter Tips
While adding a wood filter tip is a great way to differentiate your product, adding your branding or message directly to your pre-roll by way of customization guarantees your product a look that no one else can match.
Want a different size wood filter tip? We got you. Custom Cones USA can customize a wood filter tip in any length or width to meet your business’s needs. You can also customize the color of the paper used for the spiral inside our unique dual filter system – including a pantone match to your specific brand’s color – to give an extra, unexpected pop of color.
Stand out even further with a customized cigar band wrapped around your wood filter tip. You can customize – and even pantone match to your branding – the color of the band, choose foil for some shine, add embossing, make a special die cut shape for the band and even pick between a glossy or matte texture. Our design team made up of Pre-Roll Experts have you covered, so check with your sales rep today to see how you can create the high-quality pre-rolls you’ve always imagined.
Finally, for something truly unique and eye-catching, Custom Cones USA is introducing the ability to etch a design of your choice directly onto the wood filter tip itself. That’s a level of customization your customers will never forget. Again, check with your sales rep to find out how our Design Team can help you bring to market unique pre-roll products that dominate crowded sales shelves.
Final Thoughts on Wood Filter Tips for Pre-Rolls
In the increasingly-competitive pre-roll category, it’s more important than ever to ensure that your brand stands out. One way to do that is to create a premium smoking experience through the use of natural-feeling wood filter tips that cool the smoke and block particles from ruining the experience for your customers.
Whether you choose standard shape or customize your own wood filter tips shape or size, the simple addition of a wood filter tip makes any pre-roll a premium product, all while still working in most major cone-filling machines. Add in customization options and you’ve got a product they’ll talk about the whole session!
Contact the Pre-Roll Expert today to find out how wood filter tips can take your pre-roll line to the next level!