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BOTL UPCOMING MAINTENANCE
Hi Everyone, as mentioned in my introduction post, BOTL needs quite a bit of updating, patching and whatever else I might come across. Over time BOTL may be unreachable on occasion as I do migrations or updates, etc. Just be patient - we'll be back! I'll generally try to keep these maintenances until later in the evenings.
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Show us your latest leaf purchase
1LB Nic Binder (since some of you rave about it) 1/4 lb of Dom Seco Olor (because some others rave about it...) 1lb of Cibao Valley Vuelta Abajo Habano Seco (since it sounds good...) 1lb of Dominican Ligero (cause its good stuff) 1lb of Dominican Cigar Binder (from WLT since LO isn't getting...- Jim D
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Leaf Reviews
Has anyone tried the WLT wrapper "American CT shade (2006)? I'm thinking I'll pull the trigger on a pound....- Jim D
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Show us your latest leaf purchase
Ever since I ran out of Dominican binder from LO I've been using Piloto seco as binder...- Jim D
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Lancero February 2018
Trying a homeroll lancero, in my rolling cigar lounge. -
Pics of Your Sticks
Paper, I can't remember the last time I used my actual molds....- Jim D
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Pics of Your Sticks
Working on my lancero skills. This one is too tight...might cut it into two and see where I over packed it.- Jim D
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Pics of Your Sticks
So last night as I was getting ready to call it a day, I jumped out on a limb and rolled a quickie. No water, no spray, no casing leaves. Well the wrapper was cased when I last rolled on 1/22 and the binder is wrapper scraps from that session. It's a simple blend I wanted to try, 1 part CTBL...- Jim D
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Leaf Reviews
Not to mention it's the "B" in BOTL- Jim D
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Pics of Your Sticks
Feel free to start one, I'm willing to learn some more. ...- Jim D
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Pics of Your Sticks
Today's smokes, one on the way to work and one for the ride home:- Jim D
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Videos
Ummmm..... Congratulations? I'm sure that's code for something....:bookworm:- Jim D
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Pics of Your Sticks
I've been itching to burn this one since 1/5/18 as that made it a year old. Finally made time today. Turns out, it was too mellow now but that's ok, it's rare I have anything that lasts a year!- Jim D
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Pics of Your Sticks
Here is what they look like after molding with a paper strip: Smooth as can be. I fired this one up without a wrapper leaf in the name of science, you know just to see how the blend is... Edit: The blend is good! 1/2 leaf of each of the following WLT Nic Hab Seco LO Hond. Seco WLT Corojo...- Jim D
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cigar shrinkage
Sometimes. Sometimes they sit in newspaper stips for a couple days with the house at 28% RH before being wrapped. They don't seem to shrink as much while rolling in the winter. Summer time rolls get at least a week in the dry box before the humidor.- Jim D
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cigar shrinkage
Some of the home rollers sort and flatten leaf as soon as it arrives. I usually leave it in the bag it came in then pull out only what I plan to use. In order to flatten the ligero and bunch it, I typically spray the bottom of the leaves with DW and put them in a separate zip lock bag to come up...- Jim D
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Adventures in home rolling
People ask, once in a while, what to do with the scraps. I don't end up with much scrap, here's my scrap bag from the last three sessions:- Jim D
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Pics of Your Sticks
10 more sitting in my favorite mold: Working on some lanceros for February and had an extra seco leaf prepped so rolled that up with some of the scrap binder. That'll be up in smoke very soon...- Jim D
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New Years resolution
I have used xanthan gum (from a grocery store) then moved on to arabica from LO. I'm going to order some bermocol soon as the arabica seems to work well on seco wrappers but not darker leaf such as ligero, viso, nor CTBL. Maybe I'm mixing it too watered down but then again, maybe I need a better...- Jim D
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Leaf Reviews
I stole a move out of @webmost playbook with this leaf. Used the inner part with the thicker veins as binder and outer part with thinner veins as the wrapper on more than one occasion. Tell us what you think after smoking one, Jim- Jim D
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