These vids have limited purposes, Marc. How to roll the prettiest cigar, to fado accompaniment, impeccably wrapped and capped -- I leave that to Bliss. How to roll a professional gar -- I leave that to the innumerable vids made by visitors taking the factory tour. How to roll the best gar, well, I am so far from that and so consistently busy with work that I may as well not even aspire. You yourself, so far as I know, regrettably, do not vid your perfect rolling technique -- which we'd all love to see, cause you are the jeweler of our group. Me, all I feel capable to contribute is attempts to show a rank beginner how he may solve one particular problem at a time. That's it. I illustrate a method; not the method. I thought about including a disclaimer thataway in the last video, but in the end I went for terse over total, so I left it out. Appreciate your critique, and so I'll throw a disclaimer in the next one.
My latest vid, for instance, is strictly to show how to roll a gar wasting virtually no leaf at all. This illustration might help a beginner with a concept which he may apply more generally. I simplify the illustration, because, you know, KISS. When rolling for my own stash, I generally roll up each filler leaf, though I rarely enclose those entubations inside a base leaf, the way the guy does in the vid you refer to... I just glom the tubes together bind them. I gotta admit I don't make as stiff a parejo as the pros do. But they draw. Most of my old perfectos, I'd have a tough time getting them to draw until you burnt past the pointy end. I should get back to fectos. Love them.
When I video a video, there's enough of starts and stops and tang toungled dead ends so's I wind up with six or eight dead end dolls in the mold. This fine test blend was one of those. Smoked another last night, drew better. I will fiddle with some Honduran viso next to dial down the strength. If it works out, this is apt to be my next stashable blend.
I'm next scratching out a method which might best show a beginner how to firm up the head.
