That's the way I love it... freestyle! I'll admit... in the back of my mind... I've always wondered what my blends today would look like if perfectly molded in a press... I just can't bring myself to finding out yet. Great job!
Beautiful!
Now that's how you turn lemons into lemonade...aweome job!On my ride across country, my elder sister gave me this nice box:
... while her ex gave me a buncha old, beat up, and dried out gars, which I re-wrapped yesterday:
Smoked one last night. It wasn't too bad. Wrapper needs time to shrink down on 'em tight.
@Bruce T. and @marshall9779 it's Ms.
fixed it for you both... and thank you so kindly ! All for love of the leaf! 
Lol...@Bruce T. and @marshall9779 it's Ms.
I'm loving that T13 viso. I haven't tried it with the piloto leaf yet but will have to soon. That along with the Honduran sounds interesting...First gar rolled since my return:
I'm going to embark on a series of these T-13 plumpfectos for stash. I took several along w/ me on my trip, and they proved to be my faves. You got anywhere from four, four and a half, even five small T-13 leaves, one piloto seco, a Honduran habano binder, and a rosado wrapper. Not the most flexible wrapper for the job, and not the smoothest, either; but I like the color and the taste. So I will stash and stash until I run out of one or the other of these components. Hope I can perfect the plumpfecto in the process.
Try a Dominican cap where you just run it around the top a bit.Well I got the little torpedo mold filled up today. Ran out of juice before I could wrap them so that will wait for tomorrow. Stuffed a half leaf of piloto cubano ligero, 1/2 corojo ligero, 1 cibao valley criollo ligero, and bound in LO nica binder. Will wrap these up in candela. Most worried about how I will finish the head of the stick as I can't do a traditional flag and cap if I want a nice, clean, pointy torpedo. Making myself do and learn new things is where I have the most fun rolling though
These look Beautiful! To triple cap I make capital D's based on the size of head..I cut a large circle... usually a lil larger than the foot... then cut it in half... i get 2 D's out of it... I face the D in proper position then tilt it to the right till the D is leaning at 2oclock at the top and 7oclock at the bottom... like this emojiWell I got the little torpedo mold filled up today. Ran out of juice before I could wrap them so that will wait for tomorrow. Stuffed a half leaf of piloto cubano ligero, 1/2 corojo ligero, 1 cibao valley criollo ligero, and bound in LO nica binder. Will wrap these up in candela. Most worried about how I will finish the head of the stick as I can't do a traditional flag and cap if I want a nice, clean, pointy torpedo. Making myself do and learn new things is where I have the most fun rolling though
. then begin wrapping it around... it will cap off perfectly. You can do it multiple times if you like. Hope this is helpful and not confusing. I always feel like I don't make sense
Thank you both. Found a video that Blake made capping torpedoes and this all makes sense. I was initially planning the Dominican method, but that just seems lazy to me. It at least needs a cap over that. Will probably do a combo of Dominican plus the capping method that ReMix was explainingThese look Beautiful! To triple cap I make capital D's based on the size of head..I cut a large circle... usually a lil larger than the foot... then cut it in half... i get 2 D's out of it... I face the D in proper position then tilt it to the right till the D is leaning at 2oclock at the top and 7oclock at the bottom... like this emoji
If you do my full circle with the slice then you have the option to keep going as long as you want; whereas with the D (circle cut all the way through) you've got 50% less cap with which to optionally wrap before the cut. You might end up only using a D's worth before the cut, or you might use almost an O's worth.
With the candela I have plenty of wrapper, I might as well use the whole O. Besides, we want the whole O, not just a half, right ReMix??
That slice in the O, by the way, is the same as the slice in the Dominican: it turns the circle at the end of the flag into a linear strip to allow you to keep going.With the candela I have plenty of wrapper, I might as well use the whole O. Besides, we want the whole O, not just a half, right ReMix??
I noticed that in your vid last night. Made things click for me perfectly
Just wait til you take up salomons.... tricky-ass caps at both ends. Don't be too hard on yourself: pros have to do thousands or tens of thousands of these fancy heads before shit totally clicks.I am unbelievably hard on myself. I look at these and see nothing but flaws, but I did learn a lot. Finishing the heads of these "perfectly" is my new Achilles heel. Can ya'll guess where my new focus is going to be for a bit?
