Pics of your sticks!!

[waikikigun]

Have to give credit where it is your videos, along with several long back and forth PMs with MarcL, and some excellent input and guidance from others here have helped tremendously, is it creepy to say I fall asleep watching your bunching videos ? haha...yeah that sounded weird...

Bunching IS pretty boring.

 

[Kerley0319]

Rolled my first cigar yesterday and just put the wrapper on this morning. The foot feels a little underfilled so I'll work on the bunching with my next one today after I try this one. Already hooked on the process!
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Man that's great. Wish my first one looked half that good. The few I've done since my first have actually decreased in quality so I need to work on some things for sure. Maybe acquire a mold

 

[JayT]

Bunching IS pretty boring.

Perhaps but I am realizing that it is also the heart of the cigar in a way that can affect the whole thing if not done right.

 

[Mathaious12]

They all have the same filler corojo viso seco and ligero with different wrapper (CT and habano) and binder ( Sumatra and Dominican) combinations.

 

[akpreacher]

Filler-Rene Seco, Nicaraguan Ligero, T-13, and Puerto Rican leaf

Binder-Dominican

Wrapper-Habano Maduro

 

[Easydoesit]

So this has become the morning ritual since I’ve been working from home. Mornings take a little longer.. I love CT Shade in this one, which I just purchased from WLT, and I particularly appreciate the creamy vibes of the Paraguay seco with a bit of corojo and a smidge of some Ometepe I’ve managed to hang on to. In a Vuelta Abajo binder of coarse. What do you y’all smoke in the mornings? I used to smoke a pipe of Chelsea Morning religiously before diving into rolling and finding WLT

 

[cfmiles20]

Almost up to 20 cigars rolled and figured I would post a picture of the last 10. My bunching is getting better and I don't have any with major soft spots anymore, but I need to watch some more videos on getting my caps to look a little cleaner. Cigars are all smoking well and I'm about to go light one up that I wrapped yesterday. I haven't been too concerned with the length of each cigar yet and I'm just trimming off any of the foot that feels a little under packed and moving on.

 

[waikikigun]

Excellent job.

 

[MarcL]

 

[Easydoesit]

Get em while they’re wet lol! These I’ll prob dry for a few weeks. Habano 200 and ct shady criollo and vuelta abajo binders, corojo, pauraguay, and cubra secos, with ometepe and jalapa ligeros.

 

[ChinaVoodoo]

Almost up to 20 cigars rolled and figured I would post a picture of the last 10. My bunching is getting better and I don't have any with major soft spots anymore, but I need to watch some more videos on getting my caps to look a little cleaner. Cigars are all smoking well and I'm about to go light one up that I wrapped yesterday. I haven't been too concerned with the length of each cigar yet and I'm just trimming off any of the foot that feels a little under packed and moving on.

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Twenty cigars in and they already look better than mine. Dang.

 

[stdly]

I just found this forum I didn't even know you could roll your own cigars until a couple days ago.
This if very cool and looks as addictive as pipe smoking.
Real nice stuff guys and very informative.

Steve

 

[JayT]

Practiced a couple today, doing 2 at a time to fine tune and test blends

 

[IXanadu]

First four sticks. A pretty motley looking bunch. For all the reading and video watching I did, I found I couldn't recall which end of the leaf to start with, how to keep the bunch even . . . I miss-trimmed the wrapper on two and had to patch them. You call I did smoke one and was surprised how much I liked it. I'm going to post rolling/smoking notes so I can ask some questions, without bogging down this thread.

 

[tullius]

For all the reading and video watching I did, I found I couldn't recall which end of the leaf to start with, how to keep the bunch even . . . I miss-trimmed the wrapper on two and had to patch them

Been there done that. Gotta do it a few hundred times, then it gets easier and more routine. Even after hundreds, I'm still constantly checking what side of the leaf is up. You'll get it and those aren't too shabby. You're learning.

 

[akpreacher]

 

[JayT]

Is it just standard paper used to wrap the bundles in or a specific type ?

 

[MarcL]

Is it just standard paper used to wrap the bundles in or a specific type ?

Newsprint type packing paper like this.

Packing Paper 25 lbs White Newsprint 24x36" Sheets | eBay

Its thin enough to work with and thick enough that it doesn't tear like tissue paper. This is the best quality paper for the price. You won't be disappointed with the value. This paper is better than even Bubble wrap in protecting electronics and breakables.

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[Jim D]

Today's roll:

 

[JayT]

I am loving this Hab. 2000 wrapper, so easy to work with. Knocked out this batch today while on conference calls Still working on the cap process I used the Sumatra binder for these as I am starting to play around with the blends some and that binder is super thin.