Pics of Your Sticks, III

[waikikigun]

Couple things I smoked yesterday, one after lunch, the other after dinner.

 

[Smokin Harley]

nice burn edge . looks well made. Nice job.

 

[waikikigun]

Thanks. Yeah one thing about that Corojo wrapper is, you never take a well-burning cigar for granted again.

 

[Smokin Harley]

If every cigar we rolled was perfect. We wouldn't have anything to keep us busy.

 

[deluxestogie]

I follow the Baluch rug knotting tradition. Every cigar I roll must contain at least one imperfection.

Bob

 

[waikikigun]

That is a beautiful tradition.

 

[ArizonaDave]

That is a beautiful tradition.

Waikiki, Really really glad you started the new forum! I've been too busy to get around to it myself, and was going to ask you to start a new one. You must have read my mind in the dream world

Bob, I'll second that! How else can you tell them apart?

 

[waikikigun]

"II" was about to hit 1000 posts and was feeling a tad unwieldy so I took a flier and started III.

Waikiki, Really really glad you started the new forum! I've been too busy to get around to it myself, and was going to ask you to start a new one. You must have read my mind in the dream world

Bob, I'll second that! How else can you tell them apart?

 

[waikikigun]

These three blends are wrapped in Corojo oscuro leaves from which I plucked the veins as I wrapped.

 

[waikikigun]

Same three blends as yesterday, two each, two robustos and four coronas, but this time with a Pennsylvania broadleaf wrapper instead of Honduran Corojo. Plucked the thicker veins as I rolled. Yeah, my hair is pretty much out of control.

 

[Jtravis]

These three blends are wrapped in Corojo oscuro leaves from which I plucked the veins as I wrapped.

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these look great and very uniform! Did plucking out the veins make the process a lot more tedious?

 

[waikikigun]

Thanks. I don't really experience it as tedium, since I'm into it as a meditative hobby.

It does add time and effort, tho. But it's like that golf joke: who got more for his greens fee? The guy who got to hit the ball 104 times, or the guy who only got to hit it 76 times?

You know how you have to work to tuck in the first leading edge at the beginning of the wrap and make sure it's tight as you roll from there? I have to do that again each time I pluck a vein, which is about three times per stick. It requires that I change my grip and finger position at each pluck and figure how to keep it tight even though I've just torn it in half. I enjoy it though, and enjoy how much nicer it looks and feels without tons of gnarly ridges in it.

these look great and very uniform! Did plucking out the veins make the process a lot more tedious?

 

[Jtravis]

Thanks. I don't really experience it as tedium, since I'm into it as a meditative hobby.

It does add time and effort, tho. But it's like that golf joke: who got more for his greens fee? The guy who got to hit the ball 104 times, or the guy who only got to hit it 76 times?

You know how you have to work to tuck in the first leading edge at the beginning of the wrap and make sure it's tight as you roll from there? I have to do that again each time I pluck a vein, which is about three times per stick. It requires that I change my grip and finger position at each pluck and figure how to keep it tight even though I've just torn it in half. I enjoy it though, and enjoy how much nicer it looks and feels without tons of gnarly ridges in it.

Nice. Yeah it's meditative for me as well but maybe actually smoking one while I work would relieve any stress too.
I guess I'd have to try it to really get the picture but are you basically wrapping 3 separate pieces down the stick?

 

[waikikigun]

If you were to unroll it you'd have one piece of leaf, but it would have two or three tears in it from the leading edge across the leaf perpendicularly. The tears don't go all the way across. Typically the leaf might be 3 inches wide and the the tears are 1-2" into it.

I will try to do a POV vid of it next time I roll, which might be tomorrow. Basically as you roll you can see that you are about to roll a vein completely under the oncoming leaf: you can see that the tear area will be hidden under the oncoming overlap, so you stop and anchor one end of the vein with your right thumb and index and then grab the vein near the anchor area with your left thumb and index fingernails, and tear away, toward the head. Hard to visualize, isn't it. The hard part of doing it is the next part, rolling the tear under the overlap while keeping everything tight.

Nice. Yeah it's meditative for me as well but maybe actually smoking one while I work would relieve any stress too.
I guess I'd have to try it to really get the picture but are you basically wrapping 3 separate pieces down the stick?

 

[CORoller55]

If you were to unroll it you'd have one piece of leaf, but it would have two or three tears in it from the leading edge across the leaf perpendicularly. The tears don't go all the way across. Typically the leaf might be 3 inches wide and the the tears are 1-2" into it.

I will try to do a POV vid of it next time I roll, which might be tomorrow. Basically as you roll you can see that you are about to roll a vein completely under the oncoming leaf: you can see that the tear area will be hidden under the oncoming overlap, so you stop and anchor one end of the vein with your right thumb and index and then grab the vein near the anchor area with your left thumb and index fingernails, and tear away, toward the head. Hard to visualize, isn't it. The hard part of doing it is the next part, rolling the tear under the overlap while keeping everything tight.

Hi Waikikigun,

I have heard about others plucking the veins from the wrappers but never understood how it was done. I always ended up with a ripped wrapper! I, and Im sure many others on here, would be very interested to see your technique!

Nice stogies, too!

 

[moscca]

I also started recently ripping the last vein out. Still need a bit more practice but I''ll get there.
I saw some cuban rollers doing this. I see if I can find the video.

 

[waikikigun]

Okay, here's a down-n-dirty video that shows me tearing out a few broadleaf veins. It's in 4K so you can fully enjoy it on your 84" monitor.

http://fairtradetobacco.com/threads/6086-Tearing-Out-The-Veins

 

[BrewinHooligan]

Waikikigun, you have some serious talent. That was an excellent video, thank you for taking the time to make it and share it. I'm getting guys from other cigar forums I'm on started with the hobsession of home-rolling and will be sharing this with them shortly.

 

[Knucklehead]

Waikikigun, you have some serious talent. That was an excellent video, thank you for taking the time to make it and share it. I'm getting guys from other cigar forums I'm on started with the hobsession of home-rolling and will be sharing this with them shortly.

Send them over here. This last batch of Newbs turned out to be Experts (or really fast learners).

 

[BrewinHooligan]

Send them over here. This last batch of Newbs turned out to be Experts (or really fast learners).

That I am trying to do as well. They are all watching the videos and are catching on real quick. I'm still frustrated with how ugly some of the sticks I'm rolling are, but perfectos are not the easiest to wrap and probably not the best to learn with.