Pics of your sticks!!

[Indianamac]

Rolled a few tonight myself, been a while. All filler from WLT, binder & wrapper from my last year crop. Rolled tightly in my paper molds:Humid here, so will be a couple days before I can t try one.

Those look great DG.. Awesome job!

 

[Indianamac]

Today finished 3 more, still a bit to loose rolled, but 1 is was much better.
I had a hole in the wrapper of drying a bit. I repaired it with a cap.


Jan.

Nice look'n sticks.. Good job!

 

[Indianamac]

Here's my latest; since I got my gum tragacanth I spent about 4 hours rolling (while watching tv and eating dinner)
Havana (unknown type) Puros


Va&Burley unknowns


Short filler mixes of both

Edit to add: they are all fairly short and small as I didn't top, or de-sucker that crop and I didn't have any large leaves, let alone large wrappers that would have let me go bigger - an aspiration for when this year's harvest is good to go (I got a heater and fan with pre-wired thermostat out of an old food dehydrator, so combined with my fridge shell, that may be less than two years!)

Look'n good.. I like the shorter ones myself. Good for a short on time smoke.

 

[Gdaddy]

Rolled a few tonight myself, been a while. All filler from WLT, binder & wrapper from my last year crop.
Rolled tightly in my paper molds:View attachment 10978

Humid here, so will be a couple days before I can t try one.View attachment 10979
View attachment 10980

They look excellent and only paper molds. Great example of your effort and skill. I like the caps also.

 

[BarG]

Nice and unique! The caps are really extraneous.. How many of us are going to get a job as a cigar roller. Let me count on both hands and feet,0

 

[DGBAMA]

They look excellent and only paper molds. Great example of your effort and skill. I like the caps also.

First attempt at capping, with a "flag", more practice needed.

 

[DGBAMA]

Got impatient waiting for them to dry. Wrapped one in a dry paper towel and microwaved 12 secs then let cool. Just right.

 

[Bruck]

Got impatient waiting for them to dry. Wrapped one in a dry paper towel and microwaved 12 secs then let cool. Just right. View attachment 10994

That does look pretty good.

Trick I learned from Gdaddy - (without cap) nuke for 5-10 sec, blow out steam, let it cool. Repeat until no steam emerges. Caveat - if the cigar is too wet, you could rupture it.

 

[Bruck]

Latest crop of Brohibas, just finished wrapping, now they're on the drying rack for a day or so:

They're mostly filled with Dominican ligero, Brazilian viso, Colombian seco, and Cameroon seco. A few are all-Sumatra filler. Binders on all are Aleman, and wrappers are Ecuador shade, Ecuador maduro, and Cameroon. The cameroon wrappers are a dream to work with.

Didn't put a lot of effort into aesthetics this time, but am _slowly_ getting the hang of the triple-cap, which I applied to a few of them - dig the two-tone triple cap on the bottom one

 

[ArizonaDave]

Very nice Bruck!

The "dryer" looks a lot like a gem screen, you ever go?

 

[ArizonaDave]

I just had a cigar that Gdaddy rolled. Absolutely the BEST cigar I've ever smoked!!!!

 

[Gdaddy]

I just had a cigar that Gdaddy rolled. Absolutely the BEST cigar I've ever smoked!!!!

Thank you!! I'm really glad you enjoyed it.

 

[moscca]

I just had a cigar that Gdaddy rolled. Absolutely the BEST cigar I've ever smoked!!!!

WOW Gdaddy !!! You must roll some mighty fine cigars.
Yesterday smoked mine, what looked the best one untill now, but was disappointing and tossed it half way.



Jan.

 

[Knucklehead]

WOW Gdaddy !!! You must roll some mighty fine cigars.
Yesterday smoked mine, what looked the best one untill now, but was disappointing and tossed it half way.
Jan.

What were you disappointed about?

 

[Bruck]

Very nice Bruck!

The "dryer" looks a lot like a gem screen, you ever go?

Tnx very much!

No, the screen is just a scrap of hardware cloth that I tacked onto some scrap wood just for a drying rack.

 

[Indianamac]

Latest crop of Brohibas, just finished wrapping, now they're on the drying rack for a day or so:



They're mostly filled with Dominican ligero, Brazilian viso, Colombian seco, and Cameroon seco. A few are all-Sumatra filler. Binders on all are Aleman, and wrappers are Ecuador shade, Ecuador maduro, and Cameroon. The cameroon wrappers are a dream to work with.

Didn't put a lot of effort into aesthetics this time, but am _slowly_ getting the hang of the triple-cap, which I applied to a few of them - dig the two-tone triple cap on the bottom one

Those look really good Bruck! Nice job..
I have some Colombian & Cameroon myself. They do make good sticks..

 

[moscca]

What were you disappointed about?

Well... because it looked my best rolled cigar, I had also higher expectations.
I let it dry for 3 days at 45 RH and then 4 days at 67.
The taste was too flat, smooth, buttery... things I'm not looking for in a cigar. I prefer medium to full and full body cigars.
I didn't take notes from what it was made, lesson learned.
Also the draw was not good, too hard and it was not rolled to tight.
Inside it was burning quiet even, but my binder and filler were not following on one side.



Jan.

 

[jojjas]

My first ever home rolled stick has seen the daylight
a litle knobbly , but for my first attempt i give myself rating "approved"
This was made possible for me by the honorable mr Knucklehead who had the upmost generosity to send some of his leafs .
It`s an Dunhhill size 4 to make a comparision , so maybe this became a bit on the big scale
And now it will rest in a humid controlled enviroment untill it gets up in smoke

 

[Indianamac]

My first ever home rolled stick has seen the daylight
a litle knobbly , but for my first attempt i give myself rating "approved"
This was made possible for me by the honorable mr Knucklehead who had the upmost generosity to send some of his leafs .
It`s an Dunhhill size 4 to make a comparision , so maybe this became a bit on the big scale
And now it will rest in a humid controlled enviroment untill it gets up in smoke

Good job.. Concrats on your first roll.

 

[moscca]

Congratulations jojjas !! I know the feeling after your first rolled cigar.
Myself, I'm on number 10 now and it is a bumpy road.
Let us know how it will smoke.



Jan.