Ring Gauge/inches/mm

[Michibacy]

A simple chart, but beneficial in my opinion.

 

[jekylnz]

Here's another one I use..but broader range..it's a pdf. link ..I don't think it's the same..they go from 20g up to 85g!!..same sort of conversion chart though. .like M.Baccy said beneficial to have also ....

http://www.cigarcyclopedia.com/images/stories/cigarcyclopedia/10_end-111409.pdf

 

[darren1979]

Thanks guys, never could get my head around these. Now hears a daft question I'm going to ask anyway when measuring a cigar is the measurement taken from the widest part? also you measure it's circumference not diagonal. like a t.v?

 

[leverhead]

...also you measure it's circumference not diagonal. like a t.v?

I think it's diameter not circumference.

 

[Michibacy]

In the US they use the diameter, in certain placed like Japan, they don't really have a comparison with diameter OR circumference. So, in our case yes, Diameter.

 

[webmost]

I use a free smart phone app named cigar gauge. Simplicity to install and use.

 

[jekylnz]

I use a free smart phone app named cigar gauge. Simplicity to install and use.

Have to look that one up . Most Cheers web

Thats 2 cool..manual calibration even. ..


Here you go guys. .for all the lazy one's out there like me..that just like to click

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.heltonstudios.cigargaugemeasure

 

[darren1979]

Nice one, makes sense now lol. Downloaded the app, the comment at the bottom made me laught "this app is sick, now i know the size of things I'm putting in my mouth (cigars that is) lol

 

[leverhead]

...."this app is sick, now i know the size of things I'm putting in my mouth (cigars that is) lol

Be careful what you say around here, locker room humor runs deep here.

 

[jekylnz]

Nice one, makes sense now lol. Downloaded the app, the comment at the bottom made me laught "this app is sick, now i know the size of things I'm putting in my mouth (cigars that is) lol

I just hope that it was a girls comment! ??!

 

[darren1979]

Be careful what you say around here, locker room humor runs deep here.

I appologise if it offended you leverhead.

 

[deluxestogie]

deluxestogie's precision ring gauge conversion chart:

• 32 = 1/2"
• 48 = 3/4"
• 56 = 7/8"
• 64 = way too fat

How complicated does this have to be, unless you are planning to sell cigars by the box?

Bob

 

[Michibacy]

It helps us people that are way too proud of a well rolled dried leaf label what size said dry leaf bundle we made. Then smoked. Then want to remake.

I'd rather have an abundance of information and cut it down to what I need....

 

[leverhead]

I appologise if it offended you leverhead.

You'd have to work hard at it. (To offend me)

 

[jekylnz]

deluxestogie's precision ring gauge conversion chart:

• 32 = 1/2"
• 48 = 3/4"
• 56 = 7/8"
• 64 = way too fat

How complicated does this have to be, unless you are planning to sell cigars by the box?

Bob

64 += jaw cramp..don't think guy's should be putting things in their mouths bigger than that. Haha

 

[deluxestogie]

All that I'm saying is that rolling cigars is never a precise process. It uses an agricultural product.

Industrial gadgets force a cigar to be a specific, repeatable ring size, whether or not the bound bulk is exactly right. That's why, with few exceptions, nearly every box of premium cigars that I have purchased over a period of more than 40 years contained at least 1, sometimes 2 cigars with poor draw. A carefully made, fully hand-rolled cigar will be an approximate size, perfectly suited for the density and thickness of the (always differing) filler leaf strips that are selected. Even the most closely controlled batches of cigar leaf differ from leaf to leaf. Your fingers can tell the difference; an industrial gadget cannot. But that's the price (or rather the cost of business) for having to sell cigars in identical appearing batches. The most conscientious factories stick a suction gauge into the head of every bound cigar bulk, and discard (remove the binder and send the filler back for re-use) those that fail.

As a home roller, you don't need to settle for that. Cigars are just about the only hand-crafted items I know of which are regularly judged not by their artisanal quality, but by their resemblance to a mass-produced, industrial commodity.

Bob

 

[MarcL]

I like this graph. it's a nice "go to", though I still get to use my micrometer but don't need to divide by 0.015625.

Does this make me a "girth geek" ?

 

[jekylnz]

I like this graph. it's a nice "go to", though I still get to use my micrometer but don't need to divide by 0.015625.

Does this make me a "girth geek" ?

Do you go 4 girth rather than length marcL.lol

 

[MarcL]

Bob makes the best points about purpose. I think it's just nice to be able to say 4 9/16 X 47 RG and know it, for some reason. What was the question Todd ?...

 

[webmost]

Cigars are just about the only hand-crafted items I know of which are regularly judged not by their artisanal quality, but by their resemblance to a mass-produced, industrial commodity.

Goldang thot provoking...

... yet at the same time, mass produced, machine rolled cigars are denigrated, demeaned, and snubbed by aficionados.

Curious world.