Pics of your sticks!!
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MarcL
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39 X 6.25 San Vicente, corojo viso, criollo seco, mata fina 13, piloto cubano seco, filler. mata fina & Ecuador conn seed binder, corojo oscuro wrappers.
Perfect construction, but are they the size that was ordered?
When your supervisor passed them through the ring gauge, did they pass? Or were you docked some pay and denied a bathroom break?
Bob
EDIT: In addition to my attempt at being ever so clever, I have to say that the color composition of the photo is lovely.
When your supervisor passed them through the ring gauge, did they pass? Or were you docked some pay and denied a bathroom break?
Bob
EDIT: In addition to my attempt at being ever so clever, I have to say that the color composition of the photo is lovely.
greenmonster714
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Marc those are beauties.
MarcL
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Thank you all so much.
The work ethics here are both demanding and lax. we're taught and, expected to fully overstand the task at hand, never to shy from asking for assistants. quality first.
The work ethics here are both demanding and lax. we're taught and, expected to fully overstand the task at hand, never to shy from asking for assistants. quality first.
MarcL
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MarcL
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Connecticut grown shade and, Ecuador grown Connecticut seed wrappers.
I love the culebra contrast.
Bob
Bob
Habana 2001: a space oddity
The wrapper is Habana 2000. The filler is way too much of a bunch of things (Long Red, Criollo 98, Honduras Cuban Seed, bound in Besuki). It is inspired by the Monolith in the movie, 2001: A Space Oddessey. Monkeys loved the monolith. Astronauts loved the monolith. It did cool things.
Webmost may compare this to the width of my thumb. I confess. This is a big honker. My big cigars aren't usually this extravagant.
Disadvantages:
Bob
The wrapper is Habana 2000. The filler is way too much of a bunch of things (Long Red, Criollo 98, Honduras Cuban Seed, bound in Besuki). It is inspired by the Monolith in the movie, 2001: A Space Oddessey. Monkeys loved the monolith. Astronauts loved the monolith. It did cool things.
Webmost may compare this to the width of my thumb. I confess. This is a big honker. My big cigars aren't usually this extravagant.
Disadvantages:
- it uses a lot of tobacco
- it requires career-level committment to smoke it
- the ashtray runs out before the cigar
- it's not suitable for clinching in your teeth
- it may fall under EPA industrial emission regulations
- it produces rich clouds of smoke--lots of it
- the first half is smoother than the blend would predict, due to the massive, convoluted draw path
- it lasts a long time--perhaps a full evening
- it's fun to roll
- it's really photogenic
Bob
greenmonster714
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Lol. Now that's a beauty Bob. When I smoked cigars I liked them about 50 ring size (mainly because the butt would fit nicely in my pipe) but an occasional honker like that one was great. What's it take about 2hrs to finish that?
MarcL
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I like to see that mottled wrapper after it dries.
Two hours and 15 minutes. The last half was a bit stronger, but not by much.
It's too late. The cigar rested in my humidor for about 4 hours, while I did some weeding, then smoked a smaller stick. The wrapper of the second half of the big cigar, by the time I smoked the first half, had dried to a deep chocolate--the same color as the lighter areas in the photo.
In terms of the effect of the dampish areas of the wrapper, they typically recede about 1 inch from the cherry, and have no apparent effect on the burn of the cigar or its wrapper.
About 2/3 of the filler's weight was Long Red, which is probably why it did not become ferociously strong as I worked my way toward the butt.
Bob
MarcL
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what was I thinking..
Habana 2001: a space oddity
Man!
This is a monster!! (or you have tiny hands
)It may take my complete stock of leaves to roll a cigar as big as this!
... Yes my stock of "cigar" leaves (=semois in my case) is very low...
My very own Henry Clay
This fat boy consists of entirely WLT Dominican ligero filler, a WLT Besuki double binder, and a lucky strip of the WLT Dominican ligero that managed to be wrapperish grade.
Henry Clay cigars are Dominican cigars with all Dominican filler, wrapped in a dark Dominican mystery leaf. They are quite strong, for Dominican cigars, but probably a medium-full rating. There is no hint of sweetness. Just a dry, woody, slightly earthy taste. I have no idea what their actual composition is, but this surrogate seems fairly close. Their's are much prettier.
Unlike Nicaraguan Habano ligero, the Dominican ligero is softer in taste, and milder in nicotine. It's not nearly as earthy as its Nicaraguan counterpart.
Henry Clay is not what you might consider an "all day" kind of smoke.
Bob
EDIT: I notice on the JR site that they say the Henry Clay cigars are wrapped in CT Broadleaf. I'm sure this was always true of their Breva Fina and Breva Conserva, but apparently they are all wrapped in that now.
This fat boy consists of entirely WLT Dominican ligero filler, a WLT Besuki double binder, and a lucky strip of the WLT Dominican ligero that managed to be wrapperish grade.
Henry Clay cigars are Dominican cigars with all Dominican filler, wrapped in a dark Dominican mystery leaf. They are quite strong, for Dominican cigars, but probably a medium-full rating. There is no hint of sweetness. Just a dry, woody, slightly earthy taste. I have no idea what their actual composition is, but this surrogate seems fairly close. Their's are much prettier.
Unlike Nicaraguan Habano ligero, the Dominican ligero is softer in taste, and milder in nicotine. It's not nearly as earthy as its Nicaraguan counterpart.
Henry Clay is not what you might consider an "all day" kind of smoke.
Bob
EDIT: I notice on the JR site that they say the Henry Clay cigars are wrapped in CT Broadleaf. I'm sure this was always true of their Breva Fina and Breva Conserva, but apparently they are all wrapped in that now.
Gavroche
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WLT
MarcL
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Classique.
Gavroche
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Uppowoc Bobs are going into the stash:
They're named Bob because the blend is deluxestogie's suggestion: a slender core of that aromatic but fireproof H2K, surrounded by 2 corojo viso & one piloto seco, double bound in Larry Butcher's Kentucky Sumatra, then wrapped in Ec shade seco. the idea was to find some use for that super tasty H2k.
Bobs are all unmolded quickies, cause that's how Bob rolls. I'm really getting into these unmolded sticks, ever since I did that video showing how a raw beginner using no equipment could make himself a gar first try. I think I worried too much about getting these Bobs tight, tho, cause about now I'm wondering whether they will draw, now that they have dried a bit. That KY Sumatra is some super strong binder.
Well, we'll know six months from now.
They're named Bob because the blend is deluxestogie's suggestion: a slender core of that aromatic but fireproof H2K, surrounded by 2 corojo viso & one piloto seco, double bound in Larry Butcher's Kentucky Sumatra, then wrapped in Ec shade seco. the idea was to find some use for that super tasty H2k.
Bobs are all unmolded quickies, cause that's how Bob rolls. I'm really getting into these unmolded sticks, ever since I did that video showing how a raw beginner using no equipment could make himself a gar first try. I think I worried too much about getting these Bobs tight, tho, cause about now I'm wondering whether they will draw, now that they have dried a bit. That KY Sumatra is some super strong binder.
Well, we'll know six months from now.
MarcL
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Those really do look fine. that band reminds me of something.. red dot.
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