Welcome to the forum. Your questions will garner as many answers as respondents.
My suggestion is to just ignore blending and nuance and condiment questions for now.
The most forgiving wrappers (easiest to apply without going nuts) are (pick one):
- PA Binder
- Honduras Habano Wrapper
- Besuki Wrapper
Use any relatively intact half-leaf of wrapper or filler as your binder. A double binder (2 leaf halves laid one on top of the other, then used to bind the filler bunch) is much, much easier to get right for a beginning roller.
For starters on filler, I would suggest buying any one seco. Add any one viso or ligero for flavor/strength.
Leaf case (moisture content) for rolling:
- wrapper: high case (floppy and stretchy, and silent to handle)
- binder: medium case (very flexible, but not floppy; sounds like handling thick vinyl)
- filler: low case (may crack a little when squeezed, but does not crumble; noisy to handle)
If your filler is truly in low case, and you use a double binder, you can roll it as tightly as a double-binder will allow, yet it will still draw.
After you've rolled enough cigars to reliably get a solid stick with a decent draw (usually at least 30 or so tries), then you can expand your horizon. Who cares what it tastes like, if you can't smoke it.
All the sophisticated blending recipes that you'll find in this forum are wonderful, but every one is a matter of personal preference. (I love Honduras Habano puros!)
Good luck, and happy rolling.
Bob
EDIT: Bob's admonishment--
roll one; smoke one. Don't roll multiples, until you are good at rolling a single, reliably smokable cigar.
EDIT 2: Don't roll a cigar for a friend or your brother-in-law, until you've rolled at least 100 stogies.