Pics of your sticks!!

[waikikigun]

Result: good commercial draw (I prefer lil snug ), adequate to poor burn, bad butterscotch/rancid white oak on the light, harsh white peppercorn and sour wood mid, worse end.

Yeah, no. The more piloto viso in this blend, the less I like it.

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Now we're talking: some legit new entries to the Real Home Rollers' Cigar Flavor Wheel: "Bad butterscotch," "Rancid white oak," "Harsh white peppercorn," and "Sour wood."

Since one's posts are inexplicably un-editable here, I'm going to go add those descriptors to my original post in the other forum.

So, you're getting a taste of the difficult aspect of this hobby, aren't you. What to do when you've blown good money on something that doesn't work for you, or that just actually sucks. Do you throw it away? Give it away, at further postage cost? Hope it improves in a couple years? Decide that maybe it's just not complimentary to the other leaves you've got on-hand? How long do you store it while you decide what to do? Do you ever decide to risk ruining some other good leaves by attempting to pair this fail-leaf with those other better leaves, thereby likely throwing more time and money out the window?

Now multiply that by 10 or 50 over a few years.

I like to use wrapper leaf I know I don't wanna smoke to experiment with wrapping unusual shapes that I am not proficient at. With filler it's harder to figure out what to do.

While the management at WLT feels it's not worth their effort to sell 1/4lb samples, I think it would have got them more long-term pound-buying customers; because you throw away a few $25/lbs and it leaves a worse feeling about the hobby than throwing away a few $6 1/4-lbs.

Me, I've accepted it. I buy a full WLT lb knowing it's just like playing a chip at Vegas.

 

[waikikigun]

Aren't they all his rolls?

Just the four in the middle, without bands. (And in the Mille Fleur ones, the middle five, which do have bands).

 

[waikikigun]

waikiki's rolls look better and are more uniform than the adjacent habanos. If we could get cuban leaf, he'd have them beat

Thanks. I might have them beat anyway, because these Cubans are only just now coming out of barnyard and going into spicy sweet with 1.5 years on'em. Whereas I think I can get to smokeable faster than that.

 

[waikikigun]

Here's a corona with a soft half-day "Cuban cigar box press" on it.

 

[MarcL]

48 X 5.4 & 64/52 X 7

 

[deluxestogie]

Bob's Morning Rush Hour

Bob

 

[tullius]

stronk cuppa

 

[GreenDragon]

This stick has been in the humidor for over a year now. Found it while recharging the sponge thingy. It’s a box pressed Churchill. I called it Temptation because it is pretty, lithe, and slightly sweet. However it will knock your socks off when you least expect it. Flavor wise it is very mild with notes of caramel, cocoa, and incense (nicotine). 1/4 way through you had better be sitting down!

 

[Jvergen]

Hi Bob
Do you have a link to the knife you use? And how Long does rush hour last or is it by the size of cigar and number of cups of coffee?

Jeff

 

[deluxestogie]

If you're asking about the curved, red knife, it's a Kuhn Rikon 6" kulu, which I hold by the riser opposite the handle, and have used instead of a primitive chaveta for about a decade now. Kuhn Rikon, in their wisdom, discontinued the item. If you can find it anywhere (in a store or on-line), it runs about $20, but everywhere seems to be "out of stock". Kuhn Rikon still offers a 6" mezzaluna that I suppose might work, though the radius is different.

Kuhn Rikon 6-inch Mezzaluna

The Kuhn Rikon 6-inch Mezzaluna has a curved handle and blade that make it easy to mince or chop without lifting the knife from the cutting board. Order today!

www.swissknifeshop.com

The unstained handle in my last photo goes to an antique "tobacco knife" that Don sent me. Its blade is very thin and flexible, with a gentle curve, and is incredibly sharp. I use it to trim some things. It, like the 6" kulu, seems to be extinct.

Bob

Rush hour lasts until the first cigar of the day is rolled, and my one and only, 16 oz. ultra-light-weight mug of coffee is brewed. [No more massive ceramic mugs or stainless steel monstrosities.] So, about 15 minutes. It can be a hardship.

 

[dubhelix]

Here’s a little Rot Front puro. Workin’ with what I got. What I don’t have is any nice looking wrapper grade leaf....yet.

 

[deluxestogie]

The wrapper actually looks pretty good for a filler leaf.

Bob

 

[Jvergen]

Sorry no picture for this one, pen red filler with a corojo binder and wrapper, sat for 3 days before smoking. To date the best cigar I have rolled both flavor and burn.

Jeff

 

[tullius]

#40 burn: 2 cvva seco 2 piloto viso 2 corojo ligero, sumat bind, coro wrap, all tobaccos WLT

52 x 4.25

 

[tullius]

Result: medium to light draw, good burn, burnt marmalade toast & cedar light, sweetish nutty coumarin mid, full bodied complex finish. Really liked this, solid and complicated medium strength smoke. 30 day rest.

 

[tullius]

^should have read "coumarin cinnamon"^

 

[tullius]

Nos. 91-100

 

[Patriotguy]

first ever cigar ive rolled made 5 minutes ago, all Connecticut tobacco.

 

[deluxestogie]

Congratulations!

Bob

 

[tullius]

Dry an hour and letter rip. Take notes, apply. Good on you for taking the plunge!