Those look great. Looks like you are well on your way.
Pics of your Sticks!! 2023-2024
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LanceroEnjoyer
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Thanks Jclif43 , just trying to sponge up all the info I can from all you guys. And it’s been getting the dexterity in my hands and hand positioning when dealing with the wrappers and of course everything before that. Just like when you start a new instrument Love this forum
PressuredLeaf
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Nice looking sticks! It’s funny you mention over hydrating the wrapper, and the desert. I’m in AZ, and unless the wrappers are in high case they are really hard for me to apply. I don’t mind smudges from excess water as long as the stick smokes welll.
LanceroEnjoyer
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Alright another desert rat lol. La Quinta / Coachella valley , Ca here. Yea at first I was barely casing and they were looking rough! Wrapper kept ripping , I was getting so upset. Finally saw a video that MarcL had posted a while ago about torpedos I believe and the video showed the torecedor using a very moist wrapper on stainless steel and that just rang a bell for me. Good news is they dry pretty fast out here. Looking forward to more chattin PL!
PressuredLeaf
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I bet you could grow some nice tobacco out there if you had the space. That’s the video that helped me too! I found that spritzing a smooth surface, say a “marble” tile, and laying wrapper leaf down on that was tremendously helpful. The moisture helped the wrapper leaf lay perfectly flat. Consequently, when trimming the wrapper, no more jagged edges. Welcome, btw!
Eat a late evening snack, or smoke a cigar? Hmmm...
This is a quick roll of whatever filler was ready—some dark stuff and some light stuff. A half leaf of the filler was used for binder. The wrapper is WLT's 2006 CT Shade.
Bob
This is a quick roll of whatever filler was ready—some dark stuff and some light stuff. A half leaf of the filler was used for binder. The wrapper is WLT's 2006 CT Shade.
Bob
Well Bob… I like your June bugs better than ours.
This is what we call June bugs here, although, they are “water bugs” not actually June bugs.
Image courtesy of gōōgle search. You wouldn’t catch me with one of those on my hand. Or calluses. I don’t work hard enough to get those.
This is what we call June bugs here, although, they are “water bugs” not actually June bugs.
Image courtesy of gōōgle search. You wouldn’t catch me with one of those on my hand. Or calluses. I don’t work hard enough to get those.
Bob
LanceroEnjoyer
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Lovely lanceros. I've always found it to be more difficult to roll a lancero with a nice draw, compared to rolling a fatter cigar. The fat ones allow a larger margin of error for the filler density.
Bob
Bob
Skafidr
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Is this a 3d printed chaveta?
Bob
That is a mezzaluna from Kuhn Rikon.
Bob
Bob
First experience wrapping torpedos... I have some work to do when it comes to getting the caps just right. Five 5.25 x 52 torpedos, WLT Pennsylvania Binder used as wrapper, Brazil binder, Criollo and Olor Fillers... Bands are a vintage European brand.
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If I could grow only one tobacco, Corojo 99' would be the one!
Bob
WillQuantrill
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They look alot smoother than my first Torpedoes. Good job!
This one didn't turn out quite as I had planned. Being a stubborn codger, when I noticed that I had miscounted the filler leaves (one extra leaf), I just rolled a fatter cigar. And my selected binder leaf was unusually thick. Then I failed to taper the head.
The burn was uneven for the first third or so, then settled down. Despite its shortcomings, this fat, sloppy cigar turned out to be a wonderful, long smoke.
Bob
The burn was uneven for the first third or so, then settled down. Despite its shortcomings, this fat, sloppy cigar turned out to be a wonderful, long smoke.
Bob
…made my mouth water. If I wasn’t about to turn in, I’d be headed to the humidor right now.
Now I see why they call you deluxestogie lolThis one didn't turn out quite as I had planned. Being a stubborn codger, when I noticed that I had miscounted the filler leaves (one extra leaf), I just rolled a fatter cigar. And my selected binder leaf was unusually thick. Then I failed to taper the head.
The burn was uneven for the first third or so, then settled down. Despite its shortcomings, this fat, sloppy cigar turned out to be a wonderful, long smoke.
Bob
These were made in Wheeling, West Virginia, starting before the middle of the 19th century. [Many a migrant in the wagon trains heading west would buy them, as their canvas-covered conestoga wagons passed through Wheeling.] The Deluxe Stogies that I knew were long, skinny, machine-made, short-filler, cheap cigars—that were wonderful. They were made with PA Red and Little Dutch. The smoker was expected to bite off the pointed head, and spit it out. The company name still exists, but the cigars are made elsewhere, and from different tobaccos.
While section-hiking on the Appalachian Trail, I would sign the trail register at each AT shelter with my trail name: "Stogie", since I smoked a cigar at the end of each day's trek. Then I discovered that a thru-hiker used that trail name. So I adopted the trail name of "Deluxe Stogie", after the Marsh-Wheeling stogies that I loved.
Bob
If you wanted to recreate the flavor of the cigar as a pipe blend, what ratio of Little Dutch and PA Red would you start with?
These were made in Wheeling, West Virginia, starting before the middle of the 19th century. [Many a migrant in the wagon trains heading west would buy them, as their canvas-covered conestoga wagons passed through Wheeling.] The Deluxe Stogies that I knew were long, skinny, machine-made, short-filler, cheap cigars—that were wonderful. They were made with PA Red and Little Dutch. The smoker was expected to bite off the pointed head, and spit it out. The company name still exists, but the cigars are made elsewhere, and from different tobaccos.
While section-hiking on the Appalachian Trail, I would sign the trail register at each AT shelter with my trail name: "Stogie", since I smoked a cigar at the end of each day's trek. Then I discovered that a thru-hiker used that trail name. So I adopted the trail name of "Deluxe Stogie", after the Marsh-Wheeling stogies that I loved.
Bob
