Pics of your Sticks II

[ArizonaDave]

Filler Gone Astray

The plan

• Wrapper and binder:
  a leaf of sweet but mottled and thin Machu Picchu Havana
• Filler:
  2 leaves of medium brown Vuelta Abajo
  1 leaf of light Columbian Garcia

As I stemmed and laid out the filler components, I was struck by the lovely, deep brown color of one half of a Vuelta Abajo leaf. It was nearly flawless. I misted it, placed it in a Ziplock bag, then set everything aside for an hour. I used both halves of the Machu Picchu as a double binder, and the dark Vuelta Abajo filler half as the wrapper--untrimmed. The final filler (by weight) was about 3/5 Vuelta Abajo viso and 2/5 Columbian Garcia seco.

This is a medium strength cigar (though it starts out fairly mild), smooth as butter, and offers a slight sweetness to the tongue. Vuelta Abajo filler provides a rich, dense smoke--and most of the body of this cigar. The Columbian Garcia is mild and subtle, with a bit of pepper. The overall burn is excellent, particularly for a fresh-rolled cigar wrapped in a relatively thick leaf, and smoked outdoors on a muggy day. The ash is white, with a slightly ragged margin.

All of this cigar is home-grown, kilned leaf. Trimming the wrapper, using glue, and finishing the head would, of course, look nicer. But there's nobody here to impress with such cosmetics. I cut the head as the next to last step in rolling a cigar. Last step: stick it in my mouth. No glue was harmed in the making of this cigar.

Bob

Dang Bob! Great summer Cigar!

 

[ArizonaDave]

Got my order yesterday from a split order I did with SmokinHarley, the Ecuador Maduro is a beautiful wrapper! Here's a pic from today:

 

[Knucklehead]

Got my order yesterday from a split order I did with SmokinHarley, the Ecuador Maduro is a beautiful wrapper! Here's a pic from today:

Have you smoked any Ecuador Maduro yet? It's my favorite WLT wrapper.

 

[waikikigun]

AZ, is that all one leaf? There seem to be two different distinct bands of color there. I'd like to try that wrapper eventually.

 

[Gdaddy]

Nice Dave!! The heavenly white aura is a nice touch.

 

[LewZephyr]

7H

Nicaraguan Seco 2leaf
Nicaraguan Viso 2 leaf
Mata Fina Just 1/4thleaf
Sumatra Double Binder
Habana 2000 Wrapper



10E

Piloto seco
Criollo 98 ligero
Criollo 98 seco
Sumatra DoubleBinder
Ecuador ShadeWrapper (Boy is this stuff is thin. Makes a pretty wrapper, but I enjoy working with the Habana 2000 much more.)

 

[ArizonaDave]

Have you smoked any Ecuador Maduro yet? It's my favorite WLT wrapper.

Not yet, but I will when these and the others I rolled today have rested for 2 weeks.

AZ, is that all one leaf? There seem to be two different distinct bands of color there. I'd like to try that wrapper eventually.

Yes, it's ALL Ecuador Maduro. It's actually darker in person, especially the big one, it was almost black. A real dark, dark brown.

Nice Dave!! The heavenly white aura is a nice touch.

Thank you very very much! I still have to cap these except the big RG, that I'll smoke next week. Can't wait!

7H

Nicaraguan Seco 2leaf
Nicaraguan Viso 2 leaf
Mata Fina Just 1/4thleaf
Sumatra Double Binder
Habana 2000 Wrapper



10E

Piloto seco
Criollo 98 ligero
Criollo 98 seco
Sumatra DoubleBinder
Ecuador ShadeWrapper (Boy is this stuff is thin. Makes a pretty wrapper, but I enjoy working with the Habana 2000 much more.)

Lew, your sticks are looking great! I think you've got it down to a science now! I'll take the 4th or 6th one Actually all look good

 

[waikikigun]

Yeah, that Ecuadorian shade is some thin stuff, easy to tear. I think its prettiness accounts for its popularity in pro cigars.

Today I rolled some things. The 37rg are wrapped in Ecuador shade, the 43rg in Mexican San Andres.



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[charlie G.]

Lew I roll a filler blend that is identical to your 10E. I enjoy the blend. I used 3 or 4 different wrappers on mine to change it up.
Every one of you guys are rolling some real great looking cigars. Keep it up.

 

[webmost]

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Hey, them sticks are smoooooth

 

[waikikigun]

@webmost Thanks, they're literally smooth: I put the shade ones back in the mold after wrapping them. Now I think I understand how certain pro cigars get their fake-looking smoothness...

 

[webmost]

You betcha

What's the background in that pic?

 

[waikikigun]

An old-ass naturally weathered table/desk thingy out in the garden.

 

[Jason]

I'm back and an even better roller than before. Today I took my time and cranked out 4 beauties. I used my Havana blend as well as my Banda blend. 6" by 48. These will be gifted to my friend who will use them as a gift for his father in law.

 

[Ben Brand]

Nice sticks Jason.

 

[waikikigun]

Beautiful! Lucky friend's father-in-law!

 

[Jason]

Thank you guys, I appreciate the support this website has. Here's a picture of the filler.

 

[Knucklehead]

View attachment 15751I'm back and an even better roller than before. Today I took my time and cranked out 4 beauties. I used my Havana blend as well as my Banda blend. 6" by 48. These will be gifted to my friend who will use them as a gift for his father in law.

Great looking cigars. I do the pigtail head also.

 

[webmost]

Jason

How did you go about creating this swirl?

I tend to roll up each half-leaf of filler into a tube, snap that roll in the middle, lay the two halves together, then on to the next half leaf. So if I have three leaves, I should have twelve tubes bunched together. That's my entubado. Here, it looks like you laid several leaves together and rolled that together in a single swirl all at once. Except maybe that darker area toward the bottom of the photo.

 

[dvick003]

Web,

It looks to me like he may be using the book bunching method. I use it all the time and have never had a drawing problem after rolling several hundred cigars.