Pics of your Sticks!! 2023-2024

[Snowblithe]

From a learning angle, is there a way to recover from here and still do the cap ?

Yes, in fact that is how it is done on premium cigars in Cuba. Just cut an approximately 70mm by 20mm (3"x1"?) piece with a curved side and flat side, shaped like an extra long lemon wedge. Just wrap it around the head with curve towards the foot and then you can add a round cap.

Edit: For visual reference you can search "triple cap" on the forum with the "titles only" box checked.

 

[geomep]

Bliss Cigar's you tube video shows an excellent demonstration of the triple cap

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iD_iLp4r8B4

 

[GusAvocado]

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Knocked out a long weekend’s worth tonight. Never got far enough ahead to let them settle before smoking.

Rolled some more, including a cigarillo of a big Ecuador Madura cutoff and scraps of mostly wrapper and Sumatra binder. Talk about a kick! Better save more filler scrap next time.

 

[mgirotra]

I seem to be getting a hang of it, though piggytailing the cigar is still not very clean. But got this beauty (eye of the beholder) rolled up today. The biggest one i did so far. 48x6.5",

 

[mgirotra]

also got all the scraps together from the rolling of last 4-5 sticks. Rolled them into a binder. Did not waste a wrapper on it and smoked as is. It looked like crap, but smoked better than all the wrapped ones i made so far

PS: Had wrapper scraps also mixed in with filler and binder scraps

 

[mgirotra]

So here's geometry problem.. Can this wrapper wrap this cigar ? Trying to solve theoretically rather than risking to lose a wrapper

PS: the dimensions are post trimming the sides

 

[Knucklehead]

So here's geometry problem.. Can this wrapper wrap this cigar ? Trying to solve theoretically rather than risking to lose a wrapper

PS: the dimensions are post trimming the sides

You could try it with newspaper.

 

[mgirotra]

You could try it with newspaper.

Bummer! should have thought it

Did that, ..worked and got it done. Had to end up using a bit of frayed part of the leaf as well but hopefully will look better as it dries up..

 

[Snowblithe]

Imperfecto to help organize the tools.

 

[Homegrowngoodnes]

Looks like a good helper to me!

 

[mgirotra]

The very last cigar from my 1st WLT kit. 4.75" x 70 monster. weighing a whooping 20 grams.

 

[MadFarmer]

It's an untidy mess; the exposed foot, the loose twist at the head but it smoked just fine. It's a puro of Hacienda del Cura. My previous problems were construction related, can't loosely bind your filler.

 

[deluxestogie]

My Hacienda del Cura was remarkably similar in taste and aroma to Vuelta Abajo.

Bob

 

[MadFarmer]

My Hacienda del Cura was remarkably similar in taste and aroma to Vuelta Abajo.

Bob

Yes, it was neutral flavored until the half a top leaf kicked in. Then I'd say the profile was all mids, no base (earthiness) no treble (sweetness.)

 

[mgirotra]

Cleanup of the 1st WLT kit. All scraps put together into a beautiful 3.5" x 60 stick. Filler is all scraps(5 diff tobacco types- the whole kit). Binder is one half of CV Dom Seco filler and the wrapper is the other half. Had to moisten it a lot for the filler to become pliable enough to bind and wrap. Possible light up in a couple days.

This officially finisher my 1st WLT kit. Including this, about 23 cigars . All of them, different sizes and girth. No two were the same

 

[deluxestogie]

Possible light up in a couple days.

And it may last a couple of days.

Bob

 

[Snowblithe]

 

[FrostD]

Bound up just shy of a dozen scrap filler sticks in the rolling machine last couple days with Habano 92 wrappers that had too many holes in them. Wrapped up these scrap sticks with the Habano 92 wrappers that were less holy. Realized my prepped glue from a few weeks back had a fuzzy spot in it. Chucked the glue and decided to improvise and make some pigtail sticks w/o any glue.

 

[Snowblithe]

I guess this is one way to do it…

 

[deluxestogie]

Pretty bow.

I found that making a snug knot with tobacco "string" required me to attempt it repeatedly, using "strings" of different moisture levels. Too dry, and it breaks under tension. A little bit dry, and it won't tie a snug knot. Too moist, and it tears apart like tofu.

Bob