Pics of your sticks!!

[deluxestogie]

Fire Proof 3 X 58

Those are pretty. But you might need fireproof fingers to light one.

Seriously, they would be like lighting a short, leftover butt of an excellent cigar--that didn't stink.

Bob

 

[MarcL]

 

[MarcL]

 

[burge]

This is a cigarette but I think it's still a art form to

 

[burge]

From above

 

[Leftynick]

TN90 puro. Nutty, smoother than Little Dutch. Good burning. Smaller because of small crop.

 

[MarcL]

Dom binder

 

[MarcL]

WLT Habano 2000 with Corojo Oscuro foot 155 mm X 45 / 51

 

[mwaller]

Spectacular! Reminds me of the Partagas President!

WLT Habano 2000 with Corojo Oscuro foot 155 mm X 45 / 51

 

[deluxestogie]

Oh, that pointy cigar foot is such a challenge. I've probably failed at it several hundred times. The filler packing has to be just right. The wrapper requires a peculiar 'J' cut at the foot. The bound bunch has to be held at an angle from the rolling surface, while rolling the foot, then transitioned perfectly to laying flat on the board for the rest of it, and at just the right point near the top of the 'J' cut. UNLESS you've wrapped the foot with a separate tag!

I'm impressed with its symmetry.

Bob

 

[MarcL]

I did all that Bob? nice!
@ 4:30 below

 

[Gavroche]

[QUOTE = mwaller; 139240] Spectaculaire! [/ QUOTE]

No... it's MarcL :RÉ

 

[deluxestogie]

How clever. That's the best video of rolling tapered cigars that I've seen. And they do it as casually as washing the dinner dishes.

My observations:

• the foot of the filler bunch is "thinned" by plucking some of the leaf
• the foot thinnings are added to the "hip" above the foot]
• a shaped mold forms both pointy ends of the bunch
• the wrapper is applied with a dangling flag at the foot
• the foot flag is then trimmed, and wrapped onto the already tapered foot

In the absence of a mold, I have no difficulty forming the tapered head, but the foot is more of a challenge. I usually begin with a bound bunch that I leave untrimmed at the foot. I then attempt to form the pointy foot manually by means of the wrapper alone, carefully compressing the untrimmed foot into a conical shape. I find it easy to do this, but not easy to have a symmetrical point. It's usually tapered more on one side than the other (like a lamprey).

Bob

 

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In the absence of a mold, I have no difficulty forming the tapered head, but the foot is more of a challenge. I usually begin with a bound bunch that I leave untrimmed at the foot. I then attempt to form the pointy foot manually by means of the wrapper alone, carefully compressing the untrimmed foot into a conical shape. I find it easy to do this, but not easy to have a symmetrical point. It's usually tapered more on one side than the other (like a lamprey).

Bob

I bind a tapered foot in the same manner with or without a mold. I orient the pointy ends of my filer leaves toward the foot, so that filler will be scantier there. I orient my fistful of leaves about seventy five acute degrees to the veins of my binder leaf. Then i roll that foot round into a cone, withthe fistful up off the surface. Let the binder climb up that cone. Now I can lay the barrel down and bind the rest

This deserves a vid. Tough to explain but easy to show.

 

[deluxestogie]

This deserves a vid.

I'll look forward to it.

Bob

 

[MarcL]

 

[MarcL]

Habano 2000 wrapper

 

[Gavroche]

nice wrapper !

 

[MarcL]

 

[MarcL]