ArizonaDave
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I bet he gets them wet, and stretches them out on a slab of granite? Sounds like the easiest way to do it?
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I bet he gets them wet, and stretches them out on a slab of granite? Sounds like the easiest way to do it?
jbohon
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2nd and 3rd attempts at rolling a cigar. #3 also has my first attempt at a triple cap. I've been having a blast doing this!
DGBAMA
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Superb.
The mold line can be eliminated by pressing a few minutes, opening the mold and rotating the cigar 90degrees and pressing again.
ArizonaDave
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Great job! Your smokes are looking great~!
Gdaddy
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That's exactly the way to do it! If you don't get it right the first time keep trying till it's right and... you got it right. That is a very difficult cigar to roll and with your short time rolling produced that cigar. Excellent work indeed!
Gdaddy
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That's just simply amazing to me! Not only the cigar looks good but the caps look excellent as well. What's more amazing is that it's your 3rd attempt. Wow!
charlie G.
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jbohon they look great. you have 2 winners right there.
Thank You Gdaddy for the positive input. I'm still getting the feel for this, but we all know what looks right and what doesn't.
I've had a hard time with these maduro wrappers being thick and heavy veined. But I'll get it.
Thank You Gdaddy for the positive input. I'm still getting the feel for this, but we all know what looks right and what doesn't.
I've had a hard time with these maduro wrappers being thick and heavy veined. But I'll get it.
My very first cigar was beautiful and drew and burned well. The next 30 to 50 were a mess. So...beginner's luck for me. Also, that first cigar was a Kelly Burley puro, made from lovely, medium-brown, color-cured leaf that had not been kilned (didn't have a kiln then). So it tasted...well...different, and left my head spinning.
Having properly finished leaf allows even homely cigars to smell and taste great. The availability of fine cigar leaf from WLT is really a boon to new rollers (and old growers) when they first set about mastering this art of cigar rolling.
Bob
Having properly finished leaf allows even homely cigars to smell and taste great. The availability of fine cigar leaf from WLT is really a boon to new rollers (and old growers) when they first set about mastering this art of cigar rolling.
Bob
charlie G.
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" Torcedor ", is that like the guy that escorts ppl on tours ?
My fist few cigars weren't that nice. They still aren't. I found the Ecuadorian Maduro wrappers tough to get smooth cause of the thickness and veins.
Matter a fact I still have big problems with them.
My fist few cigars weren't that nice. They still aren't. I found the Ecuadorian Maduro wrappers tough to get smooth cause of the thickness and veins.
Matter a fact I still have big problems with them.
My first couple dozen were made with that "fronto" fraud sold by the nitwits at Leaf Only. Tasted like gack. Looked like crap too.
Can't tell you why I made a second attempt. Next purchase was from WLT -- a package of I forget what, with bazooka wrapper. Tasted OK. Still looked like crap.
Can't tell you why I made a third attempt.
Hooked now.
Can't tell you why I made a second attempt. Next purchase was from WLT -- a package of I forget what, with bazooka wrapper. Tasted OK. Still looked like crap.
Can't tell you why I made a third attempt.
Hooked now.
jbohon
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Thanks for the kind words. I'm just moving slowly with it. Each one of those took me at least a half an hour to roll. I rolled another last night that looked as nice as #3 before the final press. I think I'll skip that step next time if it comes out that nicely. I've got to say though that the videos in the how to section by Gdaddy really helped. I would never have figured out the cap without those.
BarG
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I think your bazooka refers to Bezuki.
ArizonaDave
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Same deal, they both go up in smoke!
Bruck
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LOL, I saw that "fronto" leaf on their site when I was first starting out rolling. Looked like a good deal. Then I googled fronto and learned that it's the leaf of choice for stoners rolling blunts. Do. Not. Want.
Fronto is nothing more than a Dark Air type tobacco. The name was developed for marketing purposes only and while it might be sold as a wrapper, it is not a traditional cigar tobacco.
Jtravis
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Hey everyone. I'm a younger guy from PA. I'm new to cigar rolling and tobacco in general. Recently bought the Sabroso Medio kit from WLT. I scoured the internet (including everyone's posts from this site which helped a ton), put together a makeshift mold and set up in my garage. Here's a few of them. The second one in is wrapped with binder because I ran out of wrapper and the white residue is cause of too much pectin (I'm using xanthan gum now). Probably going to buy another blend kit soon. I'm hooked.
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Welcome, And Great job!
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