Pics of your sticks!!

[waikikigun]

 

[deluxestogie]

It looks like you've boldly pulled the pin, and are about to heave that over the hill. Toss it my way!

Bob

 

[Charly]

As 2018 is almost gone, I wanted to share my latest rolling attempts with you.

I am very slow at rolling cigars, it took me almost 3 hours to roll these 4 little cigars ... (yes... I am slow...)
And they have no wrapper, I used no mold (you can see how not straight they are).

No, the numbers on the bands are not there for the Advent calendar
The numbers correspond to the number of the cigar since I got tired of writing the whole receipt on such tiny papers...
Now I have a file in which I write the content of each cigar I roll, and give each a number.

These four cigars contains Bahia as the main ingredient, to which I added something else (different for each number).

I will share these cigars with the (too) few smokers I have in my family.



I wish you all the best for this last day of 2018 !
And Long Live FTT !!!

 

[ciennepi]

Nice cigars. From the photo they seem a Lancero size? Can you tell us the caracteristic of the Bahia tobacco. I read somewhere that it have some floreal notes.

 

[deluxestogie]

They look good. I find longer, thinner cigars (lanceros or stogies) more difficult to roll well, compared to fat cigars.

Bob

 

[drinkthekoolaid]

@Charly no mold or wrapper? I would say they came out very clean. Well done and happy new-year!

 

[Charly]

Thank you guys.
Yes, long thin cigars are harder to roll, but I like this format, I feel like it's more about aromas than about nicotine.
And it uses less tobacco (I already grew quite a lot of different strains, but I don't have a lot of leaves of each), which is a plus for me.

I don't think the Bahia is specifically «floral» (sorry I am not very good at putting names on aromas, but I work on this!), all I can say is that this strain grow well in my garden, cures easily and is flavorfull, so it's a good strain in my book !
It's flavor is quite different than the other cigar strains (I can say the same about Nostrano del Brenta).

I seldom use wrapper (this way I save my tobacco to roll more stogies).
And I don't have any mold

Thank you for your comments, we are enjoying our last evening of 2018 with too much to eat and too much to drink

 

[waikikigun]

Last cigar I rolled in 2018, a Churchill. I always smoke a Churchill on New Year’s Eve. Happy New Year, y’all! Best of luck for 2019.

 

[Charly]

Nice cigar ! It's exactly 00:00 ! We (in France) are already in 2019 !!! Happy new year to everyone !

I wish you all the best ! And of course a lot of gooooooood tobacco !

 

[Thedbs999]

Happy New Year to everyone here at Fair Trade Tobacco.

Dan

 

[waikikigun]

Nice cigar ! It's exactly 00:00 ! We (in France) are already in 2019 !!! Happy new year to everyone !

I wish you all the best ! And of course a lot of gooooooood tobacco !

Bonne Année, Charles! (Oui, je suis Francophone).

 

[Charly]

Merci beaucoup @waikikigun !
Meilleurs voeux à tous ! (Best wishes for everyone !)

 

[waikikigun]

These Ec. Maduro caps are to differentiate these cigars from other sticks of the same vitolas I currently have on my drying rack.

 

[MarcL]

..and another box

 

[drinkthekoolaid]

@waikikigun @MarcL are you gentlemen using the entubado bunch technique?

 

[waikikigun]

@waikikigun @MarcL are you gentlemen using the entubado bunch technique?

I do. I just posted an entubado video a few days ago.

 

[MarcL]

@waikikigun @MarcL are you gentlemen using the entubado bunch technique?

I use entubado, semi-entubado and estrujado. I like to limit booking to binding/wrapping to maximize burn/air flow. I like to set the draw in the shoulder/head and set the pressure in the body to maximize air flow and in tern, an even and consistent burn.

 

[ciennepi]

MarcL, maybe cause my bad english knowledge but I don't understand your method. Can you explain me in simpler terms?

 

[MarcL]

MarcL, maybe cause my bad english knowledge but I don't understand your method. Can you explain me in simpler terms?

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=za8CwMZ1MSE

 

[MarcL]

I use entubado, semi-entubado and estrujado. I like to limit booking to binding/wrapping to maximize burn/air flow. I like to set the draw in the shoulder/head and set the pressure in the body to maximize air flow and in tern, an even and consistent burn.

Italian..

Io uso l'entubado, il semi-entubado e l'estrujado. Mi piace limitare la prenotazione al binding / wrapping per massimizzare il flusso di ustione / aria. Mi piace impostare il disegno nella spalla / testa e impostare la pressione nel corpo per massimizzare il flusso d'aria e in terna, una combustione uniforme e costante.