Pics of your sticks!! 2022
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I'll be waiting to hear how you like the all Paraguayan filler, Flojo, I assume.
Bob
Bob
I came in from playing in the garden and decided to take a break and drink a tea glass full of Spite Zero. I settled into the couch and as I pulled the iPad to me to check the weather, the charger cord followed the iPad and tipped over the full glass of Sprite into the end table and floor. While cleaning up the mess I discovered an F.X. Smith's cigar I had stashed on the end table about a year or so ago and decided the best way to recover from my self-inflicted trauma was to head out to the porch and smoke that celebratory cigar to cover the cussing taste that still lingered. It was as if the hand of fate just guided me straight to that cigar. It's a good 'un and was just what I needed. I only wish I had found the cigar before the Sprite and I could have tipped the glass off the porch. It was a plastic glass.
GrowleyMonster
Creator of the Imperfecto
Every cigar should have a story.
My second attempt at box pressed. A little 54X5 maduro for your viewing pleasure. A couple of things, I need to work on. I need to watch my wrapper prep better. I've got rough line near the foot that I could have cut cleaner to help it lay flatter. I also need a little more filler in the foot area. It's a little squishy and didn't hold the box pressing as well as the rest of the cigar did. I got two sticks (different blends) in a dry box. Hoping to dry them out for a test smoking on the 4th of July.
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Looks better than some commercial sticks I’ve seen throughout the years! Keep it up!
It's pretty good. Commercial wrappers have almost no veins. It's very hard to hide the veins home rolling.
Using a large wrapper leaf, and trimming the strip to be used as wrapper only from the outer margin of the leaf half, just about any variety can give you almost no visible veins. For the home roller, that leaves a sufficiently wide remnant of the leaf half to use as another wrapper, but with more visible veins.
When I smoke a cigar, the surface is too close to my eyes to even see the veins. So, at least for me, it's just about the quality of the draw, and the quality of the burn and smoke. Cosmetics are semi-important to me only if I'm rolling a cigar as a gift.
Bob
When I smoke a cigar, the surface is too close to my eyes to even see the veins. So, at least for me, it's just about the quality of the draw, and the quality of the burn and smoke. Cosmetics are semi-important to me only if I'm rolling a cigar as a gift.
Bob
Almost done with my Sumatra (binder) wrapped batch. Few left over leaf with too holes in places to cut around so going to bind up some left over “bag scrap” sticks.
Sumatra wrapped today:
Yesterday:
Wednesday:
Sumatra wrapped today:
Yesterday:
Wednesday:
GrowleyMonster
Creator of the Imperfecto
Rolled these today. 1-1/2 leaves Ecuador Viso, 1-1/2 leaves Sumatra Seco, Sumatra Seco binder, Nicaraguan CT Shade wrapper. I now print the exact recipe on each band.
What variety is the "Brazilian"?
I knew someone would ask. It’s the Brazil Cubra Viso. Since the filler is chock full of Ligero, I wanted to try to keep the binders & wrappers on the thinner side. I was on the fence between the Cubra Viso & Mata Fina. I’ve used the Mata Fina quite a bit in some blends (outstanding wrapper imho) and only have 1 blend with the Cubra Viso. In all honesty though. I can’t really tell the difference between the thickness and tensile strength of Cubra Viso vs Mata Fina. Seem pretty much the same here. May do a side by side by rolling up some with Mata Fina wrappers to compare & contrast. The main difference I’ve noticed is that the aroma that the Mata Fina gives off is a bit stronger.
Cranked out another 3 before dinner and 3 after dinner (bang bang shrimp in brown rice w/coconut oil). This time different binder.
W-Brazilian Cubra Viso
B-Dominican Piloto Cubano
F-Paraguayan
*paper strip molded.
P.S.- I had to go through a couple wrappers in the stack since I noted a couple holes in the middle of the wrapper. Hopefully can cut around them, but didn’t want to mess with tonight. If not, will be used as binders. Great stretch to the wrapper, but WLT’s old Brazil CT 2012 & 2013 have more of that Brazilian mustiness to them than this one has. We will see…
W-Brazilian Cubra Viso
B-Dominican Piloto Cubano
F-Paraguayan
*paper strip molded.
P.S.- I had to go through a couple wrappers in the stack since I noted a couple holes in the middle of the wrapper. Hopefully can cut around them, but didn’t want to mess with tonight. If not, will be used as binders. Great stretch to the wrapper, but WLT’s old Brazil CT 2012 & 2013 have more of that Brazilian mustiness to them than this one has. We will see…
Traditionally, in Brazil tobacco curing, small fires on the floor of the curing barns are used to decrease the usually high humidity. So most "traditional" Brazilian leaf presents that faint mustiness from its exposure to the smoke in the barns. It, like many Mexican wrappers, are slightly fire-cured. I'm not sure what they burn in Brazil, but in Mexico it is dried, discarded banana stalks and similar agricultural scrap. Brazil's bright leaf is, of course, flue-cured.
Bob
Bob
Last couple days:
W-WLT Cameroon (fantastic wrapper to use, very forgiving, easy to stretch as well to get that nice clean cut line)
B-Left batch double Cameroon, Right batch double Dominican Piloto Cubano
F-Paraguayan
W-WLT Cameroon (fantastic wrapper to use, very forgiving, easy to stretch as well to get that nice clean cut line)
B-Left batch double Cameroon, Right batch double Dominican Piloto Cubano
F-Paraguayan
