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[snowboardin58]

How about right now?

Nicaragua Jalapa Rosado Wrapper, 1lb. | Whole Leaf Tobacco

Grown and Air cured in Nicaragua, this wrapper is cured in the Dominican for over one year. The Rosado wrapper has an exceptional flavor that is not heavy handed. It will enhance the binder and filler of your cigar.

www.wholeleaftobacco.com

It's like a magic wand!

 

[Chacocii]

Had a rather productive week of rolling. Tried a few new blends. Should be tasty.

 

[Yvan the terrible]

View attachment 27670Had a rather productive week of rolling. Tried a few new blends. Should be tasty.

Nice looking smokes, what is your favorite blend? How do you box press your cigars?

 

[Rectifier]

I also like the box pressing, it's something I didn't think I'd see in homemade cigars. Very professional look!

 

[Chacocii]

Nice looking smokes, what is your favorite blend? How do you box press your cigars?

I also like the box pressing, it's something I didn't think I'd see in homemade cigars. Very professional look!

Hahahaha now I feel bad. They're not box pressed. I just didn't take the time on most of em to round the head before I molded em. We'll just pretend they're box pressed and u can still be impressed.

My favorite blend right now is jalapa rosado wrapper, hva binder, corojo ligero, CV Criollo ligero, T13 viso, Criollo seco. Very tasty smoke.

 

[Rectifier]

You're telling me those cigars are standard parejo shaped? Must be a trick of the direct vertical camera angle and the shadows because they sure look square sided to me.

 

[Chacocii]

You're telling me those cigars are standard parejo shaped? Must be a trick of the direct vertical camera angle and the shadows because they sure look square sided to me.

 

[ChinaVoodoo]

I thought they were box pressed too

 

[Charly]

Me too.

 

[deluxestogie]

Lovely cigars. Box-pressing finished cigars is really easy to do. The effect is to create "side-stream" smoke down the corners, and sometimes makes a potent cigar seem milder.

Bob

 

[Rectifier]

Another pair of pigtail petit coronas, this time paying attention to what side of the leaf goes out. Rolled with binder and wrapper at significantly lower case and with double binder instead of entubado rolling the leftover binder ends. I think they turned out quite a bit better.



Having a smoke. I picked up another humidifier and made a small humidor for my test rolls to allow them to balance in humidity for a few days. No more canoeing. This one the filler was 2 parts Dominican seco with 1 part Dominican ligero. I was surprised how much more spice and complexity the ligero adds.

 

[deluxestogie]

As you all know, I try to keep up with the latest styles and trends. My goal was to put a cigar into burley yoga pants. But burley as a wrapper gets pretty soggy in the mouth. So I added a Nicaragua Rosado leg warmer. The leg warmer is the back trim from an otherwise lovely Rosado wrapper (saved for a later stogie), hence its prominent veins.

To use burley in a cigar, as any component, you really need to kiln the leaf first, since it is sold as air-cured. I believe this leaf is from @BigBonner's TN-89, which I kilned months ago. Filler is one leaf of WLT Corojo 99 ligero, plus 4 random leaves of my own 2017, kilned, Havana 322.

So, yoga pants and a leg warmer. Now, if I could only get it to do pilates.

Bob

 

[GreenDragon]

As you all know, I try to keep up with the latest styles and trends. My goal was to put a cigar into burley yoga pants. But burley as a wrapper gets pretty soggy in the mouth. So I added a Nicaragua Rosado leg warmer. The leg warmer is the back trim from an otherwise lovely Rosado wrapper (saved for a later stogie), hence its prominent veins.

To use burley in a cigar, as any component, you really need to kiln the leaf first, since it is sold as air-cured. I believe this leaf is from @BigBonner's TN-89, which I kilned months ago. Filler is one leaf of WLT Corojo 99 ligero, plus 4 random leaves of my own 2017, kilned, Havana 322.

So, yoga pants and a leg warmer. Now, if I could only get it to do pilates.

Bob

Was using the Burley as the wrapper enough to detect it among the Rosado and Havana? I'll have to try this myself, as I'm a Burley fan.

 

[deluxestogie]

Burley loses its distinctive edginess after kilning. There is still a burley aroma that is subdued and enjoyable.

I've also used kilned MD 609 (from @BigBonner)as a wrapper alone. That's rather nice, though not Caribbean-like. In the mouth, the MD 609 does not get as soggy as burley wrapper. The MD 609 is in the same "American cigar" zone as Glessnor or Lancaster Seedleaf (PA wrapper leaf).

Bob

 

[DePasta]

Seeing all the posts about using molds and freehand rolling, I have moved away from molds a bit. It is true, I think it better trains you on how to get proper proportions and focus on the cigars needs. The attached picture shows cigars rolled with a mold on the left, and a group I rolled without the mold on the same day on the right. The cigars without the mold are certainly acceptable, and I rarely have any tight draws while I do get some from a mold. Didn't seem to tighten up the wrapper on the free rolls as much as i would like.

 

[ChinaVoodoo]

I rolled a lancero with 1/4 a leaf of WLT Ecuador Maduro as binder, and another 1/4 leaf as wrapper. Filler is the wrapper trimmings, and one Cibao Valley Dominican seco, chosen for being rather thick, and about a tenth of a fire cured leaf.

 

[waikikigun]

 

[CobGuy]

Impressive, @waikikigun!

~Darin

 

[waikikigun]

Impressive, @waikikigun!

~Darin

Thanks. Been rolling this shape for 1.5 years and very slowly figuring it out. One of the last frontiers. Not sure what I'll do once I get it fully sorted.

 

[CobGuy]

Not sure what I'll do once I get it fully sorted.

Kick back and enjoy the fact that you've mastered the hardest shapes to roll!
I'm a complete slacker with mine and rarely cap or even apply a wrapper.
Yet, they still taste as good or better than the ones I could buy.

~Darin