Rolling with scraps or making small cigars

[Knucklehead]

I just got in my 120 mm blunt roller. I like it much better than the 110 mm. The wrapper to filler ratio is much better, and I like the size better. You can quickly roll up your scraps, and you can make a wrapper "paper" from filler or binder leaf, thus saving your good wrapper leaf for larger hand rolled cigars. In the picture is a hand rolled cigar, a cigar rolled with the 120mm blunt roller, a cigarette for reference, and a half smoked cigarillo from the 110mm roller. Also shown are the two rollers. Here's a link where I bought the roller. $4.16 incl. shipping. http://www.amazon.com/Juicy-120mm-J...373425518&sr=8-1&keywords=120+mm+blunt+roller

 

[DGBAMA]

that 120 looks like a really good size. I like it. How do they smoke?

 

[MarcL]

Well done.

 

[Knucklehead]

I had just finished rolling it when I took the picture and wanted to let the fruit pectin glue dry some first. I'll smoke it today and let you know. I want to try a longer, narrow strip for a wrapper later and spiral it on like a hand rolled. That way holding one end would keep it all together. For filler on that one I tore the legs off the frog legged end of some Criollo 98 filler and rolled it. Worked out great.

 

[Chris A]

Hey Knucklehead-

Just ordered one of these as I have almost 3/4 lb of scrap to use up. Did you try the long strip wrapper method yet? Is the photographed cigar using a square "rolling paper" shaped wrapper leaf? Any more advice on use? How do they smoke? Tried using scrap for filler yet?

Cheers!

Chris

 

[Knucklehead]

The cigar in the picture was rolled with a squarish rolling paper shaped wrapper. It smoked great! I have used scraps and they work fine, just try to get the filler even in the trough. I still haven't tried the long strip of wrapper spiraled on like a hand rolled, but see no reason why it won't work. If you try it, let us know how you like it. You'll have to play with it a time or two to get a feel for how much filler to use before it makes too tight a cigar. My first one was just a little loose, but smoked like a chimney.

 

[Chris A]

First attempts-way too loose. Keep on trying.

 

[Knucklehead]

First attempts-way too loose. Keep on trying.

You can always pull them apart and add more filler.

 

[Michibacy]

Chris, I don't have this machine, but I can tell you one thing, after using my cigar mold, I wrapped cigars WAY too loose. It's amazing how tight a cigar needs to be to smoke decently.

 

[johnlee1933]

Chris, I don't have this machine, but I can tell you one thing, after using my cigar mold, I wrapped cigars WAY too loose. It's amazing how tight a cigar needs to be to smoke decently.

Amen brother.

 

[Chris A]

No real issues getting my hand rolled ones tight enough, just need some practice with this machine. On hand rolled I use paper to wrap-seems to work reasonable well.

 

[Michibacy]

Knucks, I came back to this thread thinking more and more how I can get completely "big tobacco free". I'm going to attempt to devise a system of creating multiple mini cigars (cigarette size) at a time. Possibly with loose tobacco to represent the draw of a normal cigarette, but at the same time make "tobacco rolling papers" instead of using cigarette tubes or papers. We'll see how it goes!

 

[El Gallo]

I had the same idea, am waiting for mine to arrive, my plan is to see how it's put together and build a bigger one. Can't be too hard.