Pics of your sticks!!

[Yvan the terrible]

Rolled two 60rg by 6” and they sure packed a punch. I have started on every roll to use 2 kinds of seco, 2 kinds of viso and 1 ligero, it seems that the more variety of tobacco in each blend the better results comes out.

 

[MarcL]

 

[deluxestogie]

Bob

 

[GreenDragon]

Rolled these yesterday. Dominican Seco, T-13 Viso (Criollo 98), C.V. Corojo Viso, Pelo d'Oro Ligero, Dominican Binder, Habano 2000 Wrapper.
I bought the Habano wrapper a few months ago, but just got around to working with it yesterday. I have to say, it's great stuff! Thin, but strong with good stretch and great color / shine.

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This is a nice blend. May swap out one of the viso’s for more Ligero next batch.

 

[Easydoesit]

So is that capping your night and your off to bed, or kick starting your day?

Starting the day

 

[Easydoesit]

Smoking some rolled in May. Patience definitely helps for a good smoke!

 

[Radagast]

These homegrown yellow twist bud puros are getting better and better.. and bigger!
Maybe it's the toilet-water beer pairing, but I really enjoy the heck of this home grown baccy. I imagine my experience going of the rails when I finally order some WLT good stuff.

 

[deluxestogie]

The WLT Ecuador Bronceado is a pleasure to work with. The leaves are generously sized, with good tensile strength, great stretch and consistent color. The two common meanings of "bronceado" apply equally. It indeed has a bronze color, and is suggestive of a rich, bronze suntan. Ecuador Habano is always smoother and somewhat milder than Habano grown in Central America. Nonetheless, this Bronceado wrapper imparts a distinctive, mild Habano taste to the cigar blend. Burn is good.

It is a bit thicker than Ecuador Sumatra, but roughly the same thickness as Ecuador Cameroon.

In rolling this particular cigar, I used an untrimmed half-leaf of Bronceado wrapper, which works well without a binder. Since I also included a large scrap of Ecuador Cameroon as a binder, the resulting combination burns okay, but not great.

The blend is:
Peru seco (1 leaf)
Ecuador Havano #2 (2 leaves)
Pelo d'Oro ligero (½ leaf)

Bob

 

[Snowblithe]

The weather here has either been too hot, too cold or too windy to smoke so I haven’t been rolling much. However, today was both too cold and too windy to smoke so I cracked into my Terroso Profundo kit from WLT and rolled a toro looking stick using something of an entubado method and a robustoish one using my own tried and tried again bunching methods. They ended up quite dense but drew okay on the test. Hopefully I can smoke the results soon.

 

[plantdude]

The weather here has either been too hot, too cold or too windy to smoke so I haven’t been rolling much. However, today was both too cold and too windy to smoke so I cracked into my Terroso Profundo kit from WLT and rolled a toro looking stick using something of an entubado method and a robustoish one using my own tried and tried again bunching methods. They ended up quite dense but drew okay on the test. Hopefully I can smoke the results soon.

I bought the same kit. They are a good smoke, you'll enjoy them.

 

[Snowblithe]

I bought the same kit. They are a good smoke, you'll enjoy them.

Yeah, I’m excited about it. I ran out of viso in my Oscuro kit chasing strength. This blend oughta solve that nicely.

 

[MarcL]

from the center; ASPNL, lCVPDOL, Dominican Viso, PDGHS fillers. PDGHS binders. NHC18 wrapper.

 

[plantdude]

from the center; ASPNL, lCVPDOL, Dominican Viso, PDGHS fillers. PDGHS binders. NHC18 wrapper.

Got a piece of cigaronni next to it

 

[Snowblithe]

One I rolled a month or so ago. It came to sharp point prior to cutting, so I guess you might call it a figurado? Or railroad spike. Or crocodile tooth since it’s a bit bent... Not my best work; had to burn through a nasty run due to a bit of a void in the filler but there’s no wind today and it’s still a pleasure to smoke.

 

[deluxestogie]

Fine looking cigar. When I don't trim the outer edge of a wrapper, and just roll following parallel to the secondary veins, the head usually ends up tapered.

Bob

 

[JayT]

Decided to roll some smaller RG,

 

[Boogeyman81]

Got a 60 ring factory press on eBay for a silly good price and gave it a shot. Pretty bumpy but I'm happy. No caps since they're for me. Love the WLT Nicaragua Rosado wrapper!

 

[Snowblithe]

Fine looking cigar. When I don't trim the outer edge of a wrapper, and just roll following parallel to the secondary veins, the head usually ends up tapered.

Bob

Thanks! It took me seeing what direction the binder veered to to know how to trim the wrapper. I still took some unrolling, re-rolling, finagling and trimming to get the wrap right. I learned some applied plane geometry in the process.

 

[Snowblithe]

from the center; ASPNL, lCVPDOL, Dominican Viso, PDGHS fillers. PDGHS binders. NHC18 wrapper.

Okay, that "cigaronni," as @plantdude so aptly called it, gives me a good understanding on you were telling me before about how you roll the filler: the stratified, uniform filler in the circumference and the swirling, convoluted interior with slightly bigger air gaps to account for the slower burning Ligero and Viso... Its a target so far I have best 'achieved' by rolling up the core filler and burrito-ing with outer filler. I now see how what I might call "pinwheeling", (your method as I understand it) would be more consistent... Unless I'm under-thinking it...

 

[PressuredLeaf]

Robusto-ish

2 WLT aged Nic seco (awesome stuff)
1 olor ligero
1 WLT Nic viso
PA binder
Connecticut wrapper

Very rich and smooth cigar, medium strength at the most. Excellent with coffee