Newby help with a few blends

[First Warrior]

I'm a newby to rolling but I really like being able to roll my own. I've been reading all the threads on this site and found a great deal of great info. I worked through two of Don's blend kits and my sticks are starting to look like real cigars. I watched a lot of utube shorts on rolling. I just ordered some Madero and Habano wrapers and some viso, seco and ligero plus some Penn binder. I am banding and dating each cigar that I roll. So far so good. I need some assistance in blending. I like a cigar with some bottom end to it. Full to med full but mellow as I don't like pepper. I really like everything about Viaje's but the price tag. So any suggestions of a fairly strong but mellow blend or two would greatly be appreciated. Oh yeh, a crazy man riding a Indian Scout got me started on this road.

 

[Smokin Harley]

Welcome to FTT.
Band and date each stick , thats a great habit . Make sure you record your blends somewhere too. I usually write it on the band itself.
Your taste sounds similar to mine, I dont care for pepper either...and I think I have a pretty good idea what you mean about a bottom end to it. Deep rich flavors.
Pretty good blend to try ,fiddle with the portions to your own personal taste and see how you like it -
1 Piloto Cubano seco
1-1 1/2 Nic Habano viso
1/2 -1 Criollo 98 ligero
Ecuador Maduro or Corojo binder/wrapper combination- swap either leaf either way or go double on either with just one leaf, depending on their grade, using the outer part of the leaf for wrapper and the inner for binder. I have both and I'm having a hard time deciding which one I like better.

 

[First Warrior]

Thanks for the info Harley. I will defiantly try that blend. I've been recording my blends in a journal along with thoughts good or so so and inventory of what leafs i have on hand. I may have to find a substitute for the viso until I place a new order. I'll post how it goes. It's amazing that the cigars I have been rolling are better than most of the cigars i have bought. Rolling your own is really the way to go.

 

[juan carlos]

Harley, don't you find the ecu maduro wrapper very black pepper?

that would be my first descriptor, but i think i taste pepper differently than some/most? things DW finds spicy i don't...and foods that light me up in a hot sweat and Da Wife is looking at me like i'm on glue...

 

[Smokin Harley]

I dont taste pepper in it at all. everyone has a unique taste sensor , maybe its just me. Years ago I worked at a chemical plant and they basically made a lot of acetic acid and everything smelled like full strength vinegar for half my career. Burnt out my sense of smell ,its just now starting to come back ,slowly. Has to do with what you are or drank before and your normal body pH . Many many variables. One mans prime rib may be another mans cheap tofu hot dog.
Wife knows when it gets cold out she feeds me pasta , surest way to have her own personal heater by 10:30 pm.