Pics of your sticks!!

[CobGuy]

Very nice!

 

[Yvan the terrible]

First time using Criollo 98 wrapper leaves. Thin enough and does allow for some stretching so a pleasure to work with. Very nice colour and smell, now the wait, we have had records rain fall and the RH is 68% so drying takes forever. Have been moving towards accordion bunching and am getting much better draw somehow.


The ash on my accordion bunch.

 

[ChinaVoodoo]

First time using Criollo 98 wrapper leaves. Thin enough and does allow for some stretching so a pleasure to work with. Very nice colour and smell, now the wait, we have had records rain fall and the RH is 68% so drying takes forever. Have been moving towards accordion bunching and am getting much better draw somehow.
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The ash on my accordion bunch.
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I'm loving the humidity. No struggling to keep things from dying out!

Nice looking cigars, by the way! And good choice in beer, too.

 

[waikikigun]

I'm loving the humidity. No struggling to keep things from dying out!

Nice looking cigars, by the way! And good choice in beer, too.

We haven't had humidity that low where I live in 3+ years.

 

[Chacocii]

7.5x47 burning nicely.

 

[waikikigun]

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Beautiful thing!

 

[Chacocii]

Beautiful thing!

Just trying to keep up with u guys!

 

[ChinaVoodoo]

CV habano seco, CV corojo ligero, Ecuador maduro. Scissors, hood of truck, paper mold.

 

[GreenDragon]

BBQ chicken wings and cheesy taters with a Legolas rolled last week. Been itching to try this out since I made a few new blends from my last WLT order. Finally got a chance today. Murphy has been plaguing me this week: every time I grabbed a cigar and headed for the back yard something happened that prevented me from lighting up. But not today! Perfect draw and even burn. Altogether pleasant cigar: mild/medium and pleasant tasting. I think anyone would like this one.

Oh, and the wings were fantastic

 

[MarcL]

50 X 5.4 from the center listed. 0.75 ligero, 1.5 viso filler, 0.5 candela, 0.5 Vuelta Abajo binders and Rosado wrappers.

Cibao Valley Corojo Ligero, 1lb.

This tobacco is from the 2015 crop year. The difference in this tobacco is that is has been fermented for a full 12 months. This is a very difficult process which requires constant monitoring of the…

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Cibao Valley Corojo Viso, 1lb.

This tobacco is from the 2018 crop year. The difference in this tobacco is that is has been fermented for a full 12 months. This is a very difficult process which requires constant monitoring of the…

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Whole Leaf Tobacco – Candela Wrapper, 1lb.

Dominican Grown, Beautiful Silky Smooth Candela Wrapper. Texture and body of the finest CT Shade Leaf.

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Vuelta Abajo Binder 1 lb.

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Nicaragua Jalapa Rosado Wrapper, 1lb.

Grown and Air cured in Nicaragua, this wrapper is cured in the Dominican for over one year. The Rosado wrapper has an exceptional flavor that is not heavy handed. It will enhance the binder and filler…

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[Yvan the terrible]

I have never used candela leaves, what characteristics do they bring in a blend?

 

[bcracer5]

Did you actually wrap with the candela prior to the rosado? What was the reasoning?

 

[MarcL]

Candela is color cured quickly to retain that color. It tastes green I'd guess? .. sweet/grass/mint/lemongrass/vegetal/green tea/pea pod/earthy
The Candela in those smokes are a second inner binder so, it is a little muted then having it as a wrapper.

 

[Jvergen]

Have been working on the 2 and 3 leaf stogies with the leaf from WLT basicly just binder and filler. More to come as I practice rolling.

Jeff

 

[deluxestogie]

That looks like a very respectable smoke.

Bob

 

[tullius]

First ever roll.

Computer paper "mold", simple pigtail twist top. All tobaccos WLT: 1 vuelta abajo seco, 1 piloto viso, 1 corojo 99 ligero, sumatra double binder, corojo oscuro wrapper. Rolled it too loose, fired it after an hour "dry" time (80% RH here today): good and spicy and mas fuerte. Adding another seco leaf to the next ones.

Thanks very much to Don @ WLT for the great tobacco, chaveta and glue, Waikikigun for the videos and advice, Rainmax for his cuban cigar roller video, MarcL for the cavalcade of pictures, and Deluxe for the advice to roll one smoke one (I didn't do it, but he's right, and I will now for a while).

 

[GreenDragon]

Very nice! Sorry to say it’s all downhill from here. Welcome to the obsession

 

[waikikigun]

First ever roll.

Computer paper "mold", simple pigtail twist top. All tobaccos WLT: 1 vuelta abajo seco, 1 piloto viso, 1 corojo 99 ligero, sumatra double binder, corojo oscuro wrapper. Rolled it too loose, fired it after an hour "dry" time (80% RH here today): good and spicy and mas fuerte. Adding another seco leaf to the next ones.

Thanks very much to Don @ WLT for the great tobacco, chaveta and glue, Waikikigun for the videos and advice, Rainmax for his cuban cigar roller video, MarcL for the cavalcade of pictures, and Deluxe for the advice to roll one smoke one (I didn't do it, but he's right, and I will now for a while).

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Nice job. Congrats.

 

[deluxestogie]

Very nicely done. But I see that you rolled several more, prior to testing the first. I contend that the "quantity" of learning is per rolling session. If you roll only one, you accrue one "learning credit". If you roll four at once, you still accrue only that one "learning credit." Once you feel you can reliably roll a cigar that draws well, then feel free to roll multiples. [Of course, each cigar that you roll will improve your wrapper application, but not the education that your fingertips can get regarding the required degree of compression.]

Roll one; smoke one.

Didactic Bob

EDIT: My very first cigars were truly embarrassing. Yours are lovely.

 

[MarcL]

First ever roll.

Computer paper "mold", simple pigtail twist top. All tobaccos WLT: 1 vuelta abajo seco, 1 piloto viso, 1 corojo 99 ligero, sumatra double binder, corojo oscuro wrapper. Rolled it too loose, fired it after an hour "dry" time (80% RH here today): good and spicy and mas fuerte. Adding another seco leaf to the next ones.

Thanks very much to Don @ WLT for the great tobacco, chaveta and glue, Waikikigun for the videos and advice, Rainmax for his cuban cigar roller video, MarcL for the cavalcade of pictures, and Deluxe for the advice to roll one smoke one (I didn't do it, but he's right, and I will now for a while).

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congratulations and, welcome to the club. looking good!