Pics of your sticks!!

[Chacocii]

Rolled up a small batch of 6½x55 habano wrapped beauts today. Smoking one fresh and will put the other 5 down for a while. HVA binder, nic habano ligero, CV Criollo ligero, corojo ligero, and criollo viso.

 

[waikikigun]

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Rolled up a small batch of 6½x55 habano wrapped beauts today. Smoking one fresh and will put the other 5 down for a while. HVA binder, nic habano ligero, CV Criollo ligero, corojo ligero, and criollo viso.

Looks like pretty nice rolling skills there.

 

[Chacocii]

Looks like pretty nice rolling skills there.

Thanks brother, luckily for me I enjoy smoking parejos more than figurados cuz they're a lot easier to roll

 

[waikikigun]

Thanks brother, luckily for me I enjoy smoking parejos more than figurados cuz they're a lot easier to roll

That's for DAMN sure.

 

[tullius]

One thing that I have stopped doing is rotating the dolls in the mold, I bunch and bind fill the mold and apply moderate pressure now. Turning the sticks after 30 mins in the mold caused way to many cracks and rips somehow.

What MarcL and GreenDragon said: if you're getting split binders when pressing it's most likely over fill. Bind them tighter so they just pop into the mold, or reduce mass to achieve same.

 

[ChinaVoodoo]

Three different blends, 34ga, 41ga, & 50ga, all wrapped with WLT Nicaragua Rosado.

50ga
1Nic lig
1 Rene seco
1 criollo 98 seco
1 rene seco as double binder
Nic Rosado Wrapper

41ga
1/2 CV Criollo lig
1 T13 viso
1 nic sec (1/2 as binder)
Nic Rosado Wrapper

34ga
1 Honduras filler w/midrib
1/2 bezuki as binder
Nic Rosado Wrapper

 

[deluxestogie]

Thanks brother, luckily for me I enjoy smoking parejos more than figurados cuz they're a lot easier to roll
...
That's for DAMN sure.

Bob disagrees. Figurados are more difficult only if you are attempting to force the bunch into a pre-determined shape and size, i.e. into a mold. Free-hand rolling, without a mold, nearly always results in a symmetrical figurado of somewhat random size and shape. With free-hand rolling, I find that the challenge is to intentionally end up with a parejo.

Bob

 

[GreenDragon]

Had this guy last night after a long day of “choring” in the yard (any Letterkenny fans out there?). Lots of bushes and trees got a haircut, and took down some rotten railing on the deck. PT lumber went in the trash, everything else went into the fire pit. Had this lovely stick while watching the fire and contemplating the day.

Filler: Rene seco, Dominican seco, CV corojo viso, Piloto Cubano Ligero
Binder: Dominican
Wrapper: Bezu

 

[tullius]

Tale of three WLT wrappers. Sumatra, dominican binder, connecticut.

46 x var.

 

[deluxestogie]

Toward the bottom of the photo, you can see the toothiness of the Sumatra (left).

Bob

 

[tullius]

test burn no. 119: 1 rene seco 1 corojo viso 1 san vicente ligero, coro bind, connecticut wrap, 6 day rest.

46x5

 

[tullius]

result: perfect draw, nice burn, mild white pepper on the light, ginger/cedar/nutmeg/cream mid, pencil shavings and pepper finish.

excellent mild-med cigar, reminded me of a blonde ashton. Perfect first cigar of the day, though it wasn't today.

surprisingly good after less than a week, I'll age the rest.

 

[waikikigun]

Corojo-what binder?

Wow, ginger, cedar and nutmeg. I'm jealous.

 

[tullius]

Corojo-what binder?

wlt corojo oscuro wrapper inner leaf trim saved, stacked and used as binder+flavor component: stuff just tastes too good to chop up into short filler. Though that isn't bad either

 

[MarcL]

 

[waikikigun]

That Ec. Maduro wrapper gets a lot more smoke-able a year or so after application.

 

[tullius]

no. 61 test burn: 1 cvva seco 3 corojo ligero, sumat bind, coro wrap, hand roll, ~13 week rest

49 x 5.25

 

[tullius]

result: french draw (Toulouse), ratty curling burn, deep black pepper light, robust animalistic fern with a touch of dark chocolate mid w/some floral high notes, smoky european cigarette/blackened rosemary finish.

Time and construction changed the way this blend tastes: mostly gone are the sweet and high floral notes, but not in a bad way. I liked it, reminiscent of wearing jacques bogart pour homme.

 

[Charly]

result: french draw (Toulouse)

 

[tullius]

très heureux que vous reconnaissiez mon petit humour

(very happy that you recognize my little humor)