Indianamac
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Ok! I'll practice a little longer.
drum roll please
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Ok! I'll practice a little longer.
ArizonaDave
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Hmm, I'm wondering if it's too late to join? Have a bunch of new leaves coming in this week from WLT. I could potentially get them in the mail in a week, with time to spare?
buck
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Tried rolling one this evening and much much harder than it looks. I gave up , rolled a normal stick and smoked it .. Going to try again tomorrow night ...
Ben Brand
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Still cant practice, nothing in the post. Webmost we will have to postphone that birthday of yours
AZ Dave, shoot me your address in a private message. I'll mail you out an example drumstick. I still have a couple left.
Ben Brand, this particular birthday has already been put off for sixty six years now. I wish it would wait another 66, I could do a better job of it. But it won't.
Mad Oshea
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Go with the pic. and send it anyway. There is time for it to make it to You and submit Your roll. ArizonaDave, Nice to see You jump in Sir. Mad-
ArizonaDave is in, and, get this: AZD claims he can roll a drumstick without an example, just from memory, left handed, blindfolded, while whistling the Marseillaise. That's right. Either that desert heat (but it's a dry heat) has dessicated his brain like a hornytoad in August, or else he may have his bolo tie pulled too tight.
Unless he just knows something we don't.
Now we got six FTT versus six c.com.
Who here knows where I can get a trophy cigar lighter made of turquoise and silver?
Unless he just knows something we don't.
Now we got six FTT versus six c.com.
Who here knows where I can get a trophy cigar lighter made of turquoise and silver?
Mad Oshea
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Old Town in Albuquerque NM...... AZD, Thanks for getting in, I was hopeing You would get antsy and do it LOL. Now for the desert heat, That could be- I do it as well Ha Ha. AZD got a grow on this year- so anything can go. Mad-
Inadvertent Drumstick
Each morning of my life these days, I stand at the kitchen counter, and roll a breakfast cigar while the coffee slowly drips into my 14 ounce mug. Occasionally, I'm lucid enough to make a specific blend in a specific shape. But more often, in my caffeine-deficient stupor, I just go through the motions, and surprise myself. It's not that I'm clumsy at that point of the day, but just foggy. Inattentive. Unfocused.
This morning, I carried my computer out to the front porch, retrieved my coffee, and lit up whatever the cigar gods had inspired me to roll.
As far as taste is concerned, this cigar gets a B-, whatever the heck the filler is. The wrapper is a reasonably smooth, though slightly mottled, FL Sumatra lug. After a few puffs and a few sips, the fog lifted.
Something about a drumstick. Why should I care? Oh! Webmost. Webmost is doing a CNN Special Report on drumsticks. This one's a drumstick.
So, I immediately grabbed the camera.
Deluxestogie drumstickoid breakfast cigar of uncertain parentage.
And that's the truth, Your Honor. I swear.
Bob
Each morning of my life these days, I stand at the kitchen counter, and roll a breakfast cigar while the coffee slowly drips into my 14 ounce mug. Occasionally, I'm lucid enough to make a specific blend in a specific shape. But more often, in my caffeine-deficient stupor, I just go through the motions, and surprise myself. It's not that I'm clumsy at that point of the day, but just foggy. Inattentive. Unfocused.
This morning, I carried my computer out to the front porch, retrieved my coffee, and lit up whatever the cigar gods had inspired me to roll.
As far as taste is concerned, this cigar gets a B-, whatever the heck the filler is. The wrapper is a reasonably smooth, though slightly mottled, FL Sumatra lug. After a few puffs and a few sips, the fog lifted.
Something about a drumstick. Why should I care? Oh! Webmost. Webmost is doing a CNN Special Report on drumsticks. This one's a drumstick.
So, I immediately grabbed the camera.
Deluxestogie drumstickoid breakfast cigar of uncertain parentage.
And that's the truth, Your Honor. I swear.
Bob
Ben Brand
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That`s a mighty fine cigar Bob. Don`t you want to send one of yours to Webmost, just put my name on it. I will share the price with you......But I suppose that will be cheating, and we don`t do that.
Enjoy those breakfast cigars!!!! What goes with it, beacon, eggs or the pancakes you Americans like to eat with syrup, mmmm maybe grits and sausage, or grits and cheese......damn now I`m hungry!!!!!
Enjoy those breakfast cigars!!!! What goes with it, beacon, eggs or the pancakes you Americans like to eat with syrup, mmmm maybe grits and sausage, or grits and cheese......damn now I`m hungry!!!!!
Send me the ashes of that one and you're in!Inadvertent Drumstick
Why should I care? Oh! Webmost. Webmost is doing a CNN Special Report on drumsticks. This one's a drumstick.
Deluxestogie drumstickoid breakfast cigar of uncertain parentage.
quo155
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Bob, that's a very nice drumstick...and especially for a morning rolled cigar!
Although I would like to blame the eccentricity of the foot taper on bleary eyes, most of my perfecto tips are lopsided.
Since the body of the cigar must be tilted (lifted up) to ~45º from the board surface, while rolling the tapered foot, its axis doesn't doesn't stay oriented to the secondary leaf veins of the wrapper. Even though I cut a cove (slight fishhook) in the outer wrapper edge, when trimming it prior to rolling, and start the cigar bunch at a right angle to the wrapper veins, it's that transition from tilted cigar to lying flat and parallel that drives me bonkers.
Most often, I end up with either a lacy wrapper frill at the transition point, or a lopsided foot.
The conundrum is demonstrated by the motion of a child's toy spinning top--the kind shaped like a beet. If you lay it on a surface, and give it a nudge, it doesn't roll away from you (like rolling a cigar parallel to the wrapper veins). Instead, it rolls in a tight circle.
I believe the entire problem rests in the initial fishhook trimming of the wrapper. I just haven't figured that out.
Bob
Since the body of the cigar must be tilted (lifted up) to ~45º from the board surface, while rolling the tapered foot, its axis doesn't doesn't stay oriented to the secondary leaf veins of the wrapper. Even though I cut a cove (slight fishhook) in the outer wrapper edge, when trimming it prior to rolling, and start the cigar bunch at a right angle to the wrapper veins, it's that transition from tilted cigar to lying flat and parallel that drives me bonkers.
Most often, I end up with either a lacy wrapper frill at the transition point, or a lopsided foot.
The conundrum is demonstrated by the motion of a child's toy spinning top--the kind shaped like a beet. If you lay it on a surface, and give it a nudge, it doesn't roll away from you (like rolling a cigar parallel to the wrapper veins). Instead, it rolls in a tight circle.
I believe the entire problem rests in the initial fishhook trimming of the wrapper. I just haven't figured that out.
Bob
Bob
Let me send you a small selection of machine rolled perfectos from my fab friends at FXSS. Just whip out your Xacto and unpeel the wrapper off one, then unroll the binder. You'd be surprised how little leaf they use. These parts are die-cut, of course, with absolute consistent regularity. The design is proven over a century to use the least whole leaf yet work every time. The binder is a simple trapezoid with truncated acute corners. The wrappers have the same type of truncated acute corner on the one end and a curlicue appended to the other. I cut some templates out of flashing using a wrapper and binder like these as patterns. I dunno whether these would help you, cause of course there's gonna be some diff between hand and machine makery, but they sure do give a guy some thinking room.
Do I have your address? Prolly; but I would have to hunt all up and down. So PM me your addy if you would. It would give me great pleasure to send you something.
Some day I gotta get down there.
Let me send you a small selection of machine rolled perfectos from my fab friends at FXSS. Just whip out your Xacto and unpeel the wrapper off one, then unroll the binder. You'd be surprised how little leaf they use. These parts are die-cut, of course, with absolute consistent regularity. The design is proven over a century to use the least whole leaf yet work every time. The binder is a simple trapezoid with truncated acute corners. The wrappers have the same type of truncated acute corner on the one end and a curlicue appended to the other. I cut some templates out of flashing using a wrapper and binder like these as patterns. I dunno whether these would help you, cause of course there's gonna be some diff between hand and machine makery, but they sure do give a guy some thinking room.
Do I have your address? Prolly; but I would have to hunt all up and down. So PM me your addy if you would. It would give me great pleasure to send you something.
Some day I gotta get down there.
quo155
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This drum roll, one of my top three favorite shapes...is getting more and more interesting as you guys attempt them, dissect them, and explain them.
Never mind deluxe, I found your address. I sent you similar before, but you may not have thought of disassembling them. I will trace out paper patterns of the sheet metal ones I made and enclose them. I'll throw some other goodness in as well.
I find it easy enough to roll round the head of a perfecto. It's the foot that gives me fits.
I find it easy enough to roll round the head of a perfecto. It's the foot that gives me fits.
MorganGeo at cigar.com entered a couple of real wet sticks. I don't mean high case; I don't mean damp; I mean wet. Morgan went geo splashing. These two sticks on either side of the drumstick model are so wet that the baggie they traveled in had dew inside it. The Padilla Miami riding in the box with them, it's cellophane is stuck to the cigar with dampage. The box felt twice as heavy as it should have.
So here's the good part of all that: Once that soaked wrapper dries up, it is going to pack the innerds nice and tight. Which the filler inside the shorter one with the taper, they are already nicely packed.
And from the smell, I figure this cigar, and the cheroot, are gonna taste righteous fine.
So here's the good part of all that: Once that soaked wrapper dries up, it is going to pack the innerds nice and tight. Which the filler inside the shorter one with the taper, they are already nicely packed.
And from the smell, I figure this cigar, and the cheroot, are gonna taste righteous fine.
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