Pics of your Sticks!! 2023-2024

[deluxestogie]

Breakfast with wild mustard.

Although I've previously posted this nutrition label, it's worth recalling its values—zero salt; zero cholesterol; definitely free-range and sustainable.

Bob

 

[deluxestogie]

I'll spare you another photo. At the moment, I'm smoking a bar of cigar candy. The filler is mostly my 5-year-old, home-grown, mid-leaf Corojo 99, bound in 6-year-old, home-grown, maduro Swarr-Hibshman, and wrapped in WLT CT Shade. Nothing dark or daunting here. It reveals a surprisingly broad flavor profile in a medium-strength cigar. The Swarr-Hibshman (a Pennsylvania seedleaf variety) provides the base notes, while adding a bit of sweetness.

Being patient with home-grown leaf works magic.

Bob

 

[FrostD]

I'll spare you another photo. At the moment, I'm smoking a bar of cigar candy. The filler is mostly my 5-year-old, home-grown, mid-leaf Corojo 99, bound in 6-year-old, home-grown, maduro Swarr-Hibshman, and wrapped in WLT CT Shade. Nothing dark or daunting here. It reveals a surprisingly broad flavor profile in a medium-strength cigar. The Swarr-Hibshman (a Pennsylvania seedleaf variety) provides the base notes, while adding a bit of sweetness.

Being patient with home-grown leaf works magic.

Bob

Sounds like a tasty stick for sure! I need to get some more different varieties grown to play around with their different profiles to blend with! That Swarr-Hibshmann sounds like an interesting one.

 

[manfisher]

It varies. Some I have to continually puff on to keep lit and some smoke great. I had some tobacco that got really wet in the kiln and turned very dark. It actually seems to smoke the best with good taste and tons of smoke. This was a learning year. Hope to get better with experience growing, curing, aging and of course rolling. These first attempts were mostly with scrap short filler.

Sorry for the late reply but if you'd like to practice your rolling in the off season or while your plants reach maturity in the ground, I'd recommend buying a bunch of whole leaf tobacco in bulk and practicing. That is what I am doing this season even though I don't have any cigar leaf growing currently. Might try and make a Virginia and Burley cigar

 

[MadFarmer]

The Swarr-Hibshman (a Pennsylvania seedleaf variety) provides the base notes, while adding a bit of sweetnes.

Bob, are there Caribbean varieties that can create bass notes?

 

[deluxestogie]

Olor and Piloto Cubano come to mind. Their upper leaves tend to ferment to a dark maduro, and they are potent. With most Caribbean varieties, if you can get some oscuro leaf, it tends to lend a dark and sweet character to a cigar.

Bob

 

[WillQuantrill]

Sorry for the late reply but if you'd like to practice your rolling in the off season or while your plants reach maturity in the ground, I'd recommend buying a bunch of whole leaf tobacco in bulk and practicing. That is what I am doing this season even though I don't have any cigar leaf growing currently. Might try and make a Virginia and Burley cigar

This is how I'm learning because the value of my homegrown leaf is much higher to me than even the upper priced leaf at WLT when it comes to screw ups.

 

[Smokin Harley]

I was awake. And remembered I had an important mission to complete!
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[Knucklehead]

I have a tuck cutter just like that one!
Good job on that.

 

[Smokin Harley]

Thanks, in my hiatus . Ive built a 1951 chevy truck , become a grandfather, retired, finished the truck, grandfather again and wife and I celebrated 10 yrs of marriage. So, now, im revitalizing a couple old hobbies .

 

[Smokin Harley]

 

[deluxestogie]

1951 seems a bit early for a V8 in a Chevy pickup.

Bob

 

[Smokin Harley]

1951 seems a bit early for a V8 in a Chevy pickup.

Bob

Yeah its " slightly " modified. Its on a 83 s10 chassis

 

[Alpine]

That pick-up is a real beauty! My compliments @Smokin Harley !

pier

 

[Knucklehead]

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Love the 5 windows. We had a '51 5 window flat bed work truck. 3/4 or 1 ton, I can't remember for sure. I bet yours handles alot better than ours did.

 

[Smokin Harley]

Shes peppy. Its a 1965 283 , also slightly modified, th350 and a ford 9 inch 3.25

 

[FrostD]

Finished up a batch of 12 barber poles…ish. Lol.
This is my second batch of sticks I attempted the barber pole wrap on. Learned a few things each time and hopefully going forward will turn out looking even better.

Lessons learned:
-Having similar leaf stretchiness makes it a bit easier.
-Cutting wrappers into 1”-2” strips vertically, make the lines more consistent.

I call this blend “TitoRita”. Named after our 2x boxer pups nicknames.

“The TitoRita”
Wrappers: Connecticut +
Connecticut Broadleaf Oscuro

Binder: Pennsylvania Broadleaf

Fillers:
Rene Ligero
Criollo ‘98 Ligero
Estelí Viso
Jalapa Viso
Piloto Cubano Seco

All were bound and placed in a 50 ring gauge mold for about a week or so.

 

[SlamFire]

Ugly ashtray, good cigar. WLT Corojo 99' wrapper and binder, L.O. Cubra Seco, WLT Corojo 99' viso and ligero... A Corojo puro, although I am uncertain of the Cubra's varietal. 5" x 40 perfecto with 109 style head... The King V Band seemed fitting for a cigar consisting of the King of Tobaccos...

 

[FrostD]

Ugly ashtray, good cigar. View attachment 50950WLT Corojo 99' wrapper and binder, L.O. Cubra Seco, WLT Corojo 99' viso and ligero... A Corojo puro, although I am uncertain of the Cubra's varietal. 5" x 40 perfecto with 109 style head... The King V Band seemed fitting for a cigar consisting of the King of Tobaccos...

What would you say the Cubra Seco notes add to the Corojo leaf? Interesting combo and never thought about pairing the two together, but I dig it!!

 

[SlamFire]

What would you say the Cubra Seco notes add to the Corojo leaf? Interesting combo and never thought about pairing the two together, but I dig it!!

You raise an interesting question - I picked the Cubra because my other Corojo Seco leaf tasted like cardboard... I'll have to smoke a quick purito of the Cubra and get back to you with the flavor notes!