Does anyone make 2 cigars out of 1?

[James Hunsicker]

Since nub is one of my favorite cigars, I was wondering if anyone rolls cigars with 2 heads and cuts it in the middle?

 

[deluxestogie]

You can do that with panatellas that have an open head, with the head of the second cigar starting where the two are cut apart. With two closed ends, one would be wrapped backwards, and tend to unwind itself.

Bob

 

[James Hunsicker]

I'll prob cap one end and have the other half open

 

[ChinaVoodoo]

I'll prob cap one end and have the other half open

You may want to put a bit of glue at the place where you cut in half.

 

[MarcL]

I have not but, the wrapper could unwind. I guess it could be glued.

There are those old wood molds that are eight or so inches wide with the slot in the middle ti cut them in half. 34 or 40 RG though

I would think if you ere to cut them before wrappers? I'm thinking you want to cut after wrapping?

Remember those commercial stix that they did? I forget the name. ... was it happy endings?

 

[MarcL]

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[James Hunsicker]

Yeah might just stick with my robusto size, I like capped cigars. It's just a nub is the perfect size. Robusto is pretty good too, anything larger tends to taste funky after half way, maybe I toke it too often lol

 

[MarcL]

 

[ChinaVoodoo]

I like how with Toscano you get to decide whether you're going to leave it whole or clip it in two and save half for later.

 

[waikikigun]

Yeah might just stick with my robusto size, I like capped cigars. It's just a nub is the perfect size. Robusto is pretty good too, anything larger tends to taste funky after half way, maybe I toke it too often lol

Why not just roll very short robustos?

 

[ChinaVoodoo]

Why not just roll very short robustos?

Less labour? No need to split long leaves?

 

[waikikigun]

Less labour? No need to split long leaves?

Hunsicker said he likes Nubs. Aren't those just really short robustos?

 

[James Hunsicker]

I've only ever rolled 2 cigars, I'll roll smaller ones when I figure out how not to waste binder and wrap. Yeah a 50x4 would be perfect size for me

 

[Charly]

Toscano cigars can be easily cut in half and will not unroll because they have plenty of glue.

 

[deluxestogie]

I'll roll smaller ones when I figure out how not to waste binder and wrap.

Lay out your binder or wrapper, and see where you can fit two cigars. ring gauge = (girth in inches divided by pi) x 64

Or, you can take a nice Nub, and roll it like a wheel vertically over the leaf, to see how much it takes to roll one revolution plus a bit of overlap.

Bob

 

[DePasta]

I have been known to roll a 7-8 inch stick and put it away for a while, if I don't have time for the whole thing I will clip it in half and smoke the bottom half....but you have to be careful about keeping the wrapper intact. I assume with some glue you could do the same at rolling.

 

[Jim D]

I have cut one in half on the way to work, saving the capped half for the ride home and smoking the other half on the way in.

 

[waikikigun]

Another option, besides cutting stuff in half, is to roll with smaller leaf.

This doesn't reduce your labor but it reduces your excess cuttings. The main thing you need for this is small binder leaves. I happen to use small binder leaves: WLT Traditional Nic Condega Habano seco. And, one half a tobacco leaf is bigger than the other, so I can mix and match big halves and little halves depending on what I'm rolling. I rolled the petite corona in this pic with one small half: I rolled the Huge Cigar with one large and two small. The long robusto was one big half. The lonsdale was 1 big half and one small half. Very small amount of cuttings.

 

[tullius]

^solid advice^

JR's catalogue says those parejo nub things are 4x60. Don at WLT has a bunch of brand new 60 (and up to 80!) rg molds right now: you could roll what you're after which is a gordo gordo petit robusto, or up the rg to 80 and out nubby the nubbies..

 

[bazwaldo]

Those are beautiful cigars your skill is amazing!
Thanks for posting.