Do you mean that you let the body of the cigar more open and then bunch more tobacco in the head to close the draw to the right value?
I don't add more tobacco to the head, when free-rolling my cigars, though I do apply progressively more compression toward the head. The head naturally tapers, unless you intentionally avoid it. But a slightly tapered head with progressively more compressed tobacco toward the tip means that the draw can be easily adjusted at the time of smoking by the location of the cut to open the head.
I don't spend time with intentional "entubado" configuration. My method has no name (in English or in Spanish) that appears in cigar magazines. My filler is never used in high enough case for that to be meaningful. But I do make an effort to add leaf to an assembling bunch in such a way that it does not wrap or enclose other leaves. They are just rumpled, independent neighbors who mind their own business, and are generally aligned to the long axis of the bunch. I use a mold only when rolling cigars for gifts to industrial-minded recipients.
My sense is that parallel cigars (parejos) do not exist in nature, but were born out of efficiency in packing boxes of cigars in factories. While tapered cigars used to be the norm--in the day of local-shop hand-rolled cigars (~1910), now they are seen as exotic variants reserved for only the "most skilled of torcedors". My usually mold-free, casual approach to rolling well over 10,000 cigars leads me to the impression that if tobacco leaves were allowed to roll themselves into cigars on their own, they would be fat, firm, fairly large sticks with gently tapered heads. Just like the old cartoon cigars.
I suppose what I'm saying is that the generally tapered cigars that I usually roll require far less artistry than rolling a parejo. I am not a cigar artist. Several of our members truly are.
To add to the commonality of tapered cigars prior to the industrialization of cigar manufacture, the near universal use of tapered cigars in early 20th century artwork depicting cigars, as well as the very meaning of the expression, "cigar-shaped" (fusiform), suggest that tapered was the familiar shape--parallel the exotic shape. The "barber pole" of cigar shops, a racially stereotyped, carved wooden depiction of a Native American wearing 17th Century garb--intended to allow mostly-illiterate European Americans to identify a vendor of cigars (Who could read a sign?), is usually embellished with a handful of tapered cigars.
Painless Summary:
- no entubado
- no book
- no artistry
- no parejo
- no mold
- increasing compression in the tapered head
Whew!
Bob
