Rolling at Home

[Brian Barrios]

May the Force um "Smoke" be with you. Started rolling my own cigars several months ago. I have gotten pretty good at it not having cigar molds... Any suggestions on improving bunching, or the final wrapper? I have several photos of ones I have done if anyone checks them out on my profile. Give me your opinions...

 

[FmGrowit]

Welcome to the forum. Happy to see you made it over here. Feel free to post your pictures in your posts. You can also post videos.

 

[bonehead]

welcome to the forum. those cigars are good sized.

 

[indianjoe]

Welcome to the forum.

 

[webmost]

Looked at your album. Nice socks.

 

[Knucklehead]

Welcome to FTT.

 

[bonehead]

what kinds of tobacco do you usually use?

 

[Brian Barrios]

Mostly Dominican, and Nicaraguan fillers. Usually for a binder I'll use this leaf from wholeleafetobacco.com they sell as Dark Air Crop 2012. It's a thick leaf but nice and oily. The leave smells like chocolate has a nice kick to it when smoked too. If I get some really good quality leaves out of the Dark Air I'll use them as wrappers but mostly as binder or filler.

Dark Air Crop 2012 leaf.

 

[ArizonaDave]

Mostly Dominican, and Nicaraguan fillers. Usually for a binder I'll use this leaf from wholeleafetobacco.com they sell as Dark Air Crop 2012. It's a thick leaf but nice and oily. The leave smells like chocolate has a nice kick to it when smoked too. If I get some really good quality leaves out of the Dark Air I'll use them as wrappers but mostly as binder or filler. Dark Air Crop 2012 leaf.

Yes, Dark air is great in a Cigar, and so is Turkish prelep. The Prelep adds sweetness to the blend, and has a nice Pipe like aroma. The Dark Air has a slight raisin type taste, but adds a nice kick of vitamin "N". The Nicaraguan and Dominican are my favorite, along with the Piloto Cubanos, which should be back in stock this spring

 

[Brian Barrios]

Yeah I found out about the extra Vitamin "N" while smoking one of mine. Gave me a nice buzz.

 

[charlie G.]

Welcome Brian. Good to see you posting pictures of your cigars right off the bat.
That is one big leaf you posted. I've never tried the Dark Air leaf. Looks good tho.
Keep rolling and keep posting.

 

[MarcL]

Welcome to Fair Trade Tobacco. looks right. I like your cigar bands.

 

[BarG]

Welcome, I have to agree on the dark air tobacco from WLT. My homegrown never matches up to what Don can throw at me.