Nice, looks yummy
Pics of your sticks!!
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That reason being color balance. It only takes a few % shift of your magenta-green channel toward green to go from Sumatra to candela. Might be fun to learn how to tweak that in-camera before the next one.
That's helpful. So there's really no need to get different color wrappers.
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Little green. Needed a small y-b nudge. Fixed:That's helpful. So there's really no need to get different color wrappers.
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We should all start using food coloring to paint our leaf and really make people wonder.Little green. Needed a small y-b nudge. Fixed:
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The big boys already do that. It's called "maduro."
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That's actually an idea to combat plain packaging laws. Actually start using designs directly on the wrapper leaf. I'm envisioning either laser etching or food colour dots similar to pipe stem symbols.
Ahh! Deep fake oscuro! Where's the justice? Where's the humanity? Have you no decency?
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So I practiced rolling up quite a few petit Coronas to get a feel for producing a consistent cigar - now I feel like it's time to experiment with increasing my ring gauge. Today's rolling endeavor, the quest for the Gordito! 4x60 nub style.
- First I took enough tobacco for a petit Corona and stuffed it in a shorter cigar. The results failed to impress.
- Then I added 50% more tobacco which really failed to impress considering the minimal size increase
- So I grabbed a big old pile of tobacco and decided to see what would happen. 1.5 big leaves of Dominican seco and 1.5 small ligero leaves, almost 3 times what goes into the petit Coronas. That's what I was looking for so I rolled another. Can't wait for these to dry and give them a try!
Obviously these are not super economical to roll with all that tobacco in there so they had better put out some great flavour. Now I see why you pay as much for a Nub as for a "full size" smaller ring gauge cigar, the filler volume grows exponentially with the diameter.
- First I took enough tobacco for a petit Corona and stuffed it in a shorter cigar. The results failed to impress.
- Then I added 50% more tobacco which really failed to impress considering the minimal size increase
- So I grabbed a big old pile of tobacco and decided to see what would happen. 1.5 big leaves of Dominican seco and 1.5 small ligero leaves, almost 3 times what goes into the petit Coronas. That's what I was looking for so I rolled another. Can't wait for these to dry and give them a try!
Obviously these are not super economical to roll with all that tobacco in there so they had better put out some great flavour. Now I see why you pay as much for a Nub as for a "full size" smaller ring gauge cigar, the filler volume grows exponentially with the diameter.
Your rolling looks good.
The volume of a cylinder (how much tobacco you have to stuff in there)
V = pi x radius squared x height. (Can't do even a simple equation with this crappy BB code. Sorry.)
That is, the quantity of tobacco increases by the square of the radius, even with the same cigar length. So it goes up fast. On the other hand, the smoke produced also increases by the square of the radius, since that represents the cross-section that is burning.
For many of my large, fat cigars, the filler alone may be 3 or 4 large leaves.
Bob
The volume of a cylinder (how much tobacco you have to stuff in there)
V = pi x radius squared x height. (Can't do even a simple equation with this crappy BB code. Sorry.)
That is, the quantity of tobacco increases by the square of the radius, even with the same cigar length. So it goes up fast. On the other hand, the smoke produced also increases by the square of the radius, since that represents the cross-section that is burning.
For many of my large, fat cigars, the filler alone may be 3 or 4 large leaves.
Bob
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It’s been a loooong time, but I got a chance to roll a couple of ugly sticks today. Both free hand obviously and they’re the same tobaccos. The one on the left is entubado and the right is kinda accordion. I usually tear the stem out of the filler leaves, but this time I left them whole for the entubado bunched cigar and it seams to be a lot better than if I did tear the stem out. I don’t know how to explain what I mean, but it did bunch and bind easier than any I ever rolled. This is the oscuro y Rico blend from WLT. Can’t wait to burn one. 
The big boys also already did that too, a long time ago. The Miller, Dubrul & Peters Mfg. Co. produced a cigar branding machine that according to them could brand an average of 40,000 (!) cigars a day. I stole this from MarcL: he posted what looks like all or part of one of MDP's old catalogues. Great find.
Hmmm. Only 225 pounds, 27" x 24". That might fit where I currently have the fridge.
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This one still is around for $3,475.00 or best offer?
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This one still is around for $3,475.00 or best offer?
ANTIQUE 1860 -1910 UNIVERSAL CIGAR BRANDING MACHINE J.W. STRIEDER CO BOSTON, MA | eBay
Find many great new & used options and get the best deals for ANTIQUE 1860 -1910 UNIVERSAL CIGAR BRANDING MACHINE J.W. STRIEDER CO BOSTON, MA at the best online prices at eBay! Free shipping for many products!www.ebay.com
Eh.... I'll stick to my ink-jet labels. I don't feel so bad about the cost of ink anymore though!
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