Pics of Your Sticks

[blisscigarco]

Initial impressions are very positive on a very fresh leaf. This is probably not in your wheelhouse as it is a very strong tasting leaf and the filler blend is pretty unapologetic as well. I'm getting lots of woodiness, earth, cream, chocolate, spice, and hints of what I describe as asphalt but in a good way.

Thanks! Well I used to love the flavor of that stuff. Just to go through gallons of lighter fluid to get through a smoking session.

 

[Marc L]

 

[Marc L]

 

[blisscigarco]

Early evening smoke.

 

[TheFlask]

I'm getting lots of woodiness, earth, cream, chocolate, spice, and hints of what I describe as asphalt but in a good way.

Definitely in my wheel house. Beautiful too.

 

[BrewinHooligan]

Definitely in my wheel house. Beautiful too.

Thank you brother. Not my best choice for a morning stick, but after a porterhouse dinner it would be lights out

 

[keithjjones]

first attempt with 60 rg salomon mold from keithjjones. Took a lot of leaf but great flavor and draw. 4 ecu seco, 2 criolla 98 ligero, 2 mata fina, 2 corojo viso, double ecu seco binder, ecu ligero wrapper.
Scooby approves (that's what happens when you let a 4 year old name the dog)

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Wow, that's a lot of leaf! I don't know how you get it all to fit. I think I use, at most, 4-6 leaves.

 

[keithjjones]

yup -the mata fina, ligero, and corojo were all small leaves but it is the biggest cigar I have rolled by far. Think I will plane this mold down by 1/4" to make it a little bit more manageable.

I'd try less tobacco before permanently modifying your mold. Measure twice, cut once. Taking off 1/4" from where? If you're planing, wouldn't that make an oval stick? If it's the top of the bottom you may run the risk of the mold not fitting together because of the bunch curve.

I can barely get 4-6 leaves to fit in the same mold when I roll this stick. I also have a 50ring version of the Salomon webmost had me customize for him. I haven't personally rolled with it, but it's considerably smaller.

 

[BrewinHooligan]

Got two molds filled yesterday and managed to get these 50rg finished last night. I have some petite lanceros to wrap this morning.

 

[BrewinHooligan]

My favorite size in this blend. I need to be more stingy with these ones.

 

[Marc L]

 

[Fusion555]

Getting there, this using my WLT Dom Seco for a wrapper again

 

[Marc L]

Remember these? the draw didn't really turn out to much so, I thought they might want to be bigger.

lets go with 3 into 5 .. some mata fina inside, capa corojo oscuro

4.6 X 42 / 49

These are the last of them. 2 rows of 5 and 3 rows of 6. that makes a total of 60 from 16 or so.

 

[TommyTao]

Rolled for my Scottish BOTLs. Free hand sizes, approximately 3 Robusto and 1 Gorda Corona.

 

[keithjjones]

Sticks I made this weekend.

 

[Marc L]

2, 47 and 5, 40 RG. flojo, corojo, crillo. mata fina, filler. mata fina, dominican binder. capa corojo oscuro

 

[Marc L]

47 X 5. san vicente, flojo, corojo, crillo. mata fina, filler. dominican, mata fina, binder. capa us connecticut

 

[derektherockstar]

I was pretty happy with how this perfecto turned out. The other pics of it were blurrier than I thought. I couldn't keep my hands off that one. It just looked too tasty.

A few 42 rg wrapped in MSA. Looking forward to trying those. That seems like a size I will really like.

 

[webmost]

The corojo oscuro burns just fine

That's nowhere near the color of mine.

 

[webmost]

... what I describe as asphalt but in a good way.

Wait... what?

I've smelt asphalt, I've tasted asphalt, I've even dumped motorcycles on asphalt .... but never "in a good way".