Does anyone else roll this way? I just tried it out and it worked great, rolled up quite a few in hardly any time.
I take a stack of the frogged seco, and a small stack of the frogged viso. Cut perpendicular to the midrib every 4 inches. you now have a wide strip with the thinner midrib in the middle. take 1 viso and 3 seco cuts and lay them all in a stacked fashion all oriented in the same way with the midrib on the bottom, 3 secos deep with the viso on the top. start rolling at a side, parallel to the midrib and roll one tight cylinder. The fill is very low case, it should be breaking occasionally as it rolls, but not shattering, wet enough to allow it to roll, but only just. (i.e. the case it arrived in) Now take a very high case binder, such as the fancy types or a strip of viso, 1 half leaf trimmed to allow it to be used as a binder, and roll the cylinder up in this, mine were so high case that they held just by doing this, then add another half of your nice leaf to use as a wrapper, roll it nice and tight, add some pectin glue to the end strip and use a flat piece of wood to roll it many times to tighten it further. You just cannot roll it too tight to affect the draw if you add the filler in the right case. The filler also has the thin parts of midrib left after frogging to make a sturdy bulk so you can really clench down on it without ruining it.
Set aside in humidor until all the excess moisture has redistributed across the leaf and dissipated.
Once you have a stack of leaf all laid out and ready to roll, with binder and wrapper stacked nearby you can really set up a system here and start churning em out with good speed and consistency. It's easy to adjust the ratios since everything is so uniform. I'm using viso 1 strip down the middle, and I made a bunch with viso wrapper/binder, seco wrapper/binder, and viso binder/seco wrapper.
these are all around 45-55 ring and all about 4-5 inches long depending on the bushy foot.
if the description interests you but is not clear enough i'll do a pictorial, this is by no stretch of the imagination "better" than the traditional way in any way, but i found it easy for me to churn quite a few out in very little time while allowing me to really focus on blending ratios while still making a very nice cigar that is impossible to have a poor draw on.
I take a stack of the frogged seco, and a small stack of the frogged viso. Cut perpendicular to the midrib every 4 inches. you now have a wide strip with the thinner midrib in the middle. take 1 viso and 3 seco cuts and lay them all in a stacked fashion all oriented in the same way with the midrib on the bottom, 3 secos deep with the viso on the top. start rolling at a side, parallel to the midrib and roll one tight cylinder. The fill is very low case, it should be breaking occasionally as it rolls, but not shattering, wet enough to allow it to roll, but only just. (i.e. the case it arrived in) Now take a very high case binder, such as the fancy types or a strip of viso, 1 half leaf trimmed to allow it to be used as a binder, and roll the cylinder up in this, mine were so high case that they held just by doing this, then add another half of your nice leaf to use as a wrapper, roll it nice and tight, add some pectin glue to the end strip and use a flat piece of wood to roll it many times to tighten it further. You just cannot roll it too tight to affect the draw if you add the filler in the right case. The filler also has the thin parts of midrib left after frogging to make a sturdy bulk so you can really clench down on it without ruining it.
Set aside in humidor until all the excess moisture has redistributed across the leaf and dissipated.
Once you have a stack of leaf all laid out and ready to roll, with binder and wrapper stacked nearby you can really set up a system here and start churning em out with good speed and consistency. It's easy to adjust the ratios since everything is so uniform. I'm using viso 1 strip down the middle, and I made a bunch with viso wrapper/binder, seco wrapper/binder, and viso binder/seco wrapper.
these are all around 45-55 ring and all about 4-5 inches long depending on the bushy foot.
if the description interests you but is not clear enough i'll do a pictorial, this is by no stretch of the imagination "better" than the traditional way in any way, but i found it easy for me to churn quite a few out in very little time while allowing me to really focus on blending ratios while still making a very nice cigar that is impossible to have a poor draw on.