Pics of your sticks!!

[waikikigun]

Whatever the nuances of flavor, sure is a beautiful roll. Exquisite work.

Thanks.

 

[waikikigun]

My box press. The five, lighter-colored ones, in the middle were rolled by me with stuff from my recent WLT shipment (minus the wrapper, which I got from @webmost). They are five different blends, the blend codes noted on the underside of the bands. Conveniently I'd smoked five of these Mille Fleurs already, so I had spare space and spare bands. I had to really jam the new rolls into those five slots. I closed the box and put a heavy mold on top, and voilà, easy box press. I'll leave'em in there for a month.

 

[waikikigun]

.... and these guys are four of the same blends as the above five, but wrapped in WLT Corojo Oscuro.

 

[GreenDragon]

Very nice! Where do you get you’re labels printed?

 

[waikikigun]

Very nice! Where do you get you’re labels printed?

Thanks. I took'em off cigars I'd smoked. When I do get labels printed, it's at a local copy shop, $.75 a page, on which I layout ~20 labels.

 

[Jvergen]

Burley red tips filler, black mammoth binder and corojo wrapper, this one I really like

 

[GreenDragon]

I took the measurements that @MarcL gave me last week and made my new box press version 2.0. Now just have to roll some stix to try her out with.

 

[tullius]

#55 test burn: 1 cvva seco, 3 corojo ligero, coro osc bind, sumatra wrap, all tobaccos WLT

44 x 5

 

[tullius]

Verdict: very good. Superb draw, good burn, sweet malty cedar and peppery osage orange with a hint of coffee up front, spicy wood at the end. Standard salt & pepper ash, rest time two weeks. This blend has become my favorite, usually with the bind/wrap reversed. Anybody who enjoys cigars would've liked this.

 

[dubhelix]

little cigar.

 

[deluxestogie]

It seems like I've seen this before. Maybe from the Mars Opportunity Rover photo archive.

Bob

 

[GreenDragon]

Finished replacing the skirting around my deck this afternoon, and am cooling off with a Vanilla Coke and the first cigar out of my box press 2.0. Filler is made up of assorted varieties of my 2018 crop, and the wrapper and binder is from this years grow. I went into the attic and sneaked a few leaves out of my “kiln”. I think batch #1 is ready to come out based on smell / taste.



(I just noticed the ash is pointing right at the new boards in the picture LOL)

 

[CobGuy]

... out of my box press 2.0.

What's the change-up in the new box press and do you like it better?

 

[GreenDragon]

1.0 (bottom press) is for larger gauge cigars. It forms a square cigar by default, and a plump rectangular cigar for larger gauges. The beauty, or simplicity, of 2.0 (top) is that it produces a cigar of exactly one size, the only variable being the length. I like them both. Just depends on my mood which one to use.

 

[CobGuy]

Ahhhh, yes ... the picture says it all. Thanks!

~Darin

 

[Jvergen]

How long do you press them till they hold their shape?

 

[waikikigun]

Finished replacing the skirting around my deck this afternoon, and am cooling off with a Vanilla Coke and the first cigar out of my box press 2.0. Filler is made up of assorted varieties of my 2018 crop, and the wrapper and binder is from this years grow. I went into the attic and sneaked a few leaves out of my “kiln”. I think batch #1 is ready to come out based on smell / taste.

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(I just noticed the ash is pointing right at the new boards in the picture LOL)

Nice photo.

 

[GreenDragon]

How long do you press them till they hold their shape?

Usually overnight. I tend to roll at night and then pop them out of the molds before going to work.

 

[Yvan the terrible]

Usually overnight. I tend to roll at night and then pop them out of the molds before going to work.

Do they spend anytime in a mold prior to wrapping?

 

[GreenDragon]

it depends on if I want smooth or sharp edges. For sharp edges I put the wrapped cigar in overnight, smooth I put in cigars with just the binder, then wrap the next day after removing from the mold.