It makes me wonder if there is a misinterpretation between Willy and my brain. You say He said "the binder leaf should always be facing the same direction, tip of the leaf pointed to the right." I get "the same direction" part but, the same two half leaves can be used left or right to bind with by flipping them. I mean if we use 2 half leaves taken from the same midrib, they'll have opposite vein exposure. But, if one would like to only bind from the right, then one could certainly do so. yes?
Using your binder placement in your video Brew as a example, .. first, you all will notice, the outer edges of a leaf has very little veins visible inside or out. Giving reason to have that edge on the outer finished seam. .. In that video, by having that outer edge of the leaf placed at the bottom, it will be tucked under, leaving the thickest parts of the veins to be exposed to that outer seam. Also, by starting with the foot of the bunch and matching it with the base of the leaf (opposite the tip) we'll find the binder wanting to turn up and go back towards the foot and around the bunch instead of forward and down the bunch towards the head.
Brew, you did say it was streaming nerves and, for that, you get a pass. so, I'm not going to ask why you do that. Besides, those sticks will, very much most of likely be awesome smokes.
Rickey Taylor will do it his own way for sure and, Bob will say low, medium and high case is all you need besides a finger nail, a match and a little spit.
I seem to be going for most typical or, traditional techniques. .. but, all techniques are of interest to me.
I am curious about binder direction placement in relation to wrapper direction placement on a given stick though. What say all of you?
I used to think if they were going in the opposite directions they would act to stabilize each other. I'm not sure about that. But, if you do it without gluing the binder, the wrapper tends to want to unravel the binder.
