Pics of your sticks!!

[DePasta]

If I'm not mistaking, those are your first ones? Welcome to the club!

I have about 50 sticks under my belt...but finally figuring out the nuances of rolling...

 

[drinkthekoolaid]

Just for curiosity sake - how many leaves on average are you guys using and for what size of vitola?

 

[GreenDragon]

Just for curiosity sake - how many leaves on average are you guys using and for what size of vitola?

Just enough!

Honestly, it depends on the mix in the cigar. The leaves vary considerably in both shape and thickness depending on variety. I usually sort my leaves, de-stemmed, into piles by type, then build my first cigar blank, taking note of how many of each leaf it took to get the correct size and weight. I.e. half a leaf of X, 4 halves of Y, and 2 halves of Z. That then becomes the recipe for that batch.

 

[deluxestogie]

For medium-size cigar leaf, 2 leaves of filler make a small corona; 4 leaves of filler make a fat honker. No measuring, sorting, weighing or worrying. The catch is that I seldom use a mold. So the cigar I end up with is always just the right size--however it comes out. You can make all this complex and arcane, or just wing it.

Bob

 

[waikikigun]

On average it takes me about 4 leaves to make a robusto, 5 a toro/Churchill/Edmundo, 3 a corona, 3.5 a lonsdale, 2.5 a panatella. There is no particular size I roll more often that others.

 

[deluxestogie]

It's worth noting that cigar filler leaves from different varieties and priming levels can range from 10" to 30" in length, and a similar ratio of width. So "number of leaves" is a less than ideal measure.

Bob

 

[MarcL]

Just for curiosity sake - how many leaves on average are you guys using and for what size of vitola?

I know there are more examples but, this might be the most resent thread. >> https://fairtradetobacco.com/threads/filler-for-a-48-ring-mold.8505/

 

[CobGuy]

Nice evening for a cigar, this is the last of this batch:

 

[CobGuy]

Oops ...

 

[waikikigun]

I have about 50 sticks under my belt...but finally figuring out the nuances of rolling...

Nice. Took me 5000 and I still ain't close.

 

[drinkthekoolaid]

So "number of leaves" is a less than ideal measure.
Bob

Totally understood. Just more of an open ended question for conversation.

 

[GreenDragon]

This bad boy has been aging in one of my humidors for over a year. Box press, filler Silver river, Havana, Corojo 99. Wrapper/binder Pennsylvania. All from BB if I remember correctly. Very very nice. Rich, chocolately, a touch of spice with a slight floral note. Yum! Liquid libation a Rye and Root. I’m enjoying a balmy 70F evening before the next cold front roars through this weekend.

 

[DePasta]

Nice. Took me 5000 and I still ain't close.

Well...I didn’t say all the nuances...but enough to make a decently smokeable stick that my friends and I enjoy. I do not expect to be on your level any time soon!

 

[waikikigun]

Well...I didn’t say all the nuances...but enough to make a decently smokeable stick that my friends and I enjoy. I do not expect to be on your level any time soon!

Ten more and you'll be there. I ain't changed nothing since my 60th.

 

[MarcL]

..close but, no cigar. .. not really. had to use a binder on the last one.

 

[drinkthekoolaid]

..close but, no cigar. .. not really. had to use a binder on the last one.

Those look delicious. The blinder one is out of place. Here, better ship it to me.

 

[MarcL]

Those look delicious. The blinder one is out of place.

I was thinking this same thought then, it got to close to the flame and went up in smoke.

 

[MarcL]

I ran out of wrapper again but, used the new Vuelta Abajo Binder on one instead.

 

[GreenDragon]

They all look great to me!

 

[MarcL]