Pics of your sticks!!

[MarcL]

MarcL:

Your rolling table...Is that a slab of Walnut wood? It is very attractive. I like wood, the fancier the better.

Wes H.

Yes, black walnut it is..

 

[RandyL]

They look terrible but smoke well...
View attachment 25795

What are you using for glue? Never seen it dry that noticeable before. Just curious

 

[ciennepi]

This are the cigars pictured in my current avatar. Three petit robusto about 4" 1/4 long and with 47 RG.
If I remember correctly wrapper and binder with Vuelta Abajo and filler Vuleta Abajo and kilned Virginia Gold mix (because I finished the cigar leafs).
They rest on the cigar mold used to press it, a more than half century old german cigar press (zigarrenpress).

 

[Charly]

Very nice Ciennepi !

 

[ciennepi]

I know they are not nice, but they are nice for me.

 

[col555]

I know they are not nice, but they are nice for me.

Anything that smokes and tastes good and dont cost $10 is nice lol, all the better if you rolled them yourself

 

[jonny]

What are you using for glue? Never seen it dry that noticeable before. Just curious

All purpose flour. im switching to tapioca as of today...

 

[ChinaVoodoo]

All purpose flour. im switching to tapioca as of today...

Hey, you know, seeing as you're obviously going to the baking section at the grocery store, try one of the gums (xanthan or guar) that they sell. A lifetime supply won't be more than five bucks.

 

[ChinaVoodoo]

One for me, two for the guy I'm working with tonight (Helena wrapper/binder, Delhi 34 & Helena filler. There has to be some benefit to putting up with me talking about tobacco.Probably should have used some perique.

 

[deluxestogie]

Are those yellow ones cigarette tobacco?

Bob

 

[ChinaVoodoo]

Are those yellow ones cigarette tobacco?

Bob

Yes! They are homegrown flue cured Helena and Delhi 34.

 

[deluxestogie]

Sorry, the variety names don't register with my brain. There's nothing wrong with a paper-free, fat cigarette. That is a lovely flue-cure color.

Bob

 

[ChinaVoodoo]

Sorry, the variety names don't register with my brain. There's nothing wrong with a paper-free, fat cigarette. That is a lovely flue-cure color.

Bob

It's even kilned a bit.
In 2016 I grew and flue cured Helena and Costello Negro. Helena is a little lighter in strength, and a little sweeter in flavor. It was about 10 or 20% more productive. I got the seeds from Northwest.

 

[jonny]

Hey, you know, seeing as you're obviously going to the baking section at the grocery store, try one of the gums (xanthan or guar) that they sell. A lifetime supply won't be more than five bucks.

The amish store we do most of our grocery business with does not have xanthan or guar. LOL They got saltpeter,slack lime,lye...But no xanthan or guar. Plus we like homemade tapioca pudding...

i do like the tapioca glue!
Three more for the cigar safe.

 

[CobGuy]

Uff Da!!

Nice looking sticks, Jonny.

~Darin

 

[Levi Gross]

A Turkish Cigar?
Prilep filler, Düzce binder, Costa Rica 589 wrapper

 

[Levi Gross]

 

[CobGuy]

Interesting combo, Levi ... how's it taste?

~Darin

 

[Levi Gross]

It was actually very sweet, smooth no harsh or even green taste at all. This is all air cured and sun cured leaf from this year!

 

[ChinaVoodoo]

That feel when you roll a cigar, and are like, nah, it's an ugly work cigar. I'm not gonna post a photo, (unless you're deluxestogie). But then you light it up, and it's like that scene in Rattatouille where you have a taste and are transported to another time, and you wish you could share, but you can't. It's just for you.

This was my first taste of both the WLT Cibao Valley Dominican seco, and Ecuador Maduro wrapper.