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I guess that the only way to create a mold with a drill is to bore a full hole into two identical planks, then saw and discard less than half of each. That would allow you to smooth and sand the two remaining halves in a manner that would create a complete semi-circle cross-section of each finished half. [Seems like a lot of work.]

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Wait! Just call it a chisel shape!

 

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10 more prepped up from yesterday & today. 50 ring gauge. Leaf tossed in conditioning chamber for the 43 ring gauge mold. Should be binding those up either later today or tomorrow.
 

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2 freehand petite perfectos and my first perfectos in the new mold. Freehand is Dominican ligero criollo 98 with nicaraguan seco jalapa. CT broatleaf binder and wrapper.

In the mold are just misc scraps with misc binder scraps i rolled up real quick. I want to incorporate a little light fire cured into my next one and see how it is.
 

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Could you screw/secure/clamp two boards together, drill holes right down the crack, then just unscrew them?
That should work for a simple parejo (cylindrical cigar) mold, though you still end up lacking the seam overlap of a properly constructed mold. I suppose you could just rotate the doll multiple times, to eliminate the seam crease in the binder.

I still find it refreshing to see photos of some lovely, totally free-hand cigars posted in this thread.

Bob
 

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What type of blends do you like to wrap with oscuro? What type of flavours does it impart?
I am still in experimental stages. Enjoying one of them right now. A little premature but its nice. These are puros. Pa seco filler and pa binder wrapped with pa oscuro. That wrapper is nice and the leaf i used was darker at the top, hence one darker and one lighter one per leaf. It is a mild cigar. I get nutty and mild chocolate and licorice notes. But rich like maduro. I believe they let it ferment a bit longer to get the dark color.
 

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Here is the one from the mold that I bunched the other night. Took out of the mold and draw was real tight so spritzed with some water and let it expand for a few hours before I wrapped. I think it helped the draw a little. Tried to flag with it attached to the rest of the wrapper but didn’t judge things right and didn’t leave myself enough to finish the wrap before the flag so had to ditch that flag. Made another flag and then a cap on top. I think I’ll do a separate flag next time and should turn out a little better as the wrapper near the head got twisted trying to get the attached flag to work. I also had the perfect amount of wrapper off the foot to do a closed foot. Love how that turned out. I’ve already learned a ton on these first two.
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Smoked this one on Sunday, a week after being wrapped. Draw was super tight the whole way, even towards the head which was significantly softer. Need to work on my bunching but still satisfying smoking my first cigar that I rolled.
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Smoked this one on Sunday, a week after being wrapped. Draw was super tight the whole way, even towards the head which was significantly softer. Need to work on my bunching but still satisfying smoking my first cigar that I rolled.
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i bet you had a smile from the start to the end, good on you mate
 

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Smoked this one on Sunday, a week after being wrapped. Draw was super tight the whole way, even towards the head which was significantly softer. Need to work on my bunching but still satisfying smoking my first cigar that I rolled.
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alot of commercial cigars i smoke esp the cheaper ones have a tight draw. i bought this perfect draw tool you twist in and pull out and it helps on those and i found myself using it even on nicer cigars to get my preferred draw. i have had a few that i rolled that had a tight draw and i just muscled though it. but im thinking its prob a really good tool for some learning how to roll until you get the bunching down.
 

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If you roll one, smoke one—especially if you use low case filler, and not worry about appearance or squeezing into a factory mold—you will learn to roll a perfect draw after about 10 to 30 cigars. If you roll multiple cigars at a time, and attend to beauty and caps and tags, and therefore roll cigars with filler in too high a case, then you have to allow them to "rest" (e.g. dry out) for days prior to smoking them. This latter, cosmetic approach dramatically lengthens the learning curve.
  • filler in low case (noisy, occasional cracks, but does not crumble)
  • binder in medium case
  • wrapper in high case
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alot of commercial cigars i smoke esp the cheaper ones have a tight draw. i bought this perfect draw tool you twist in and pull out and it helps on those and i found myself using it even on nicer cigars to get my preferred draw. i have had a few that i rolled that had a tight draw and i just muscled though it. but im thinking its prob a really good tool for some learning how to roll until you get the bunching down.
I do have one of those. Just didn’t use it.
 
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