Pics of Your Sticks
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I've seriously mooted the idea of a web store to broker home rolls made and shipped by various and sundry... even bought a couple domains for the purpose... but I feel fairly confident that the FDA has made that virtually impossible beginning August. Anyone figures out a strategy, I'm your guy... I'll have the thing put together in a trice.
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Wow, man, nice job!
Watching your videos has been a great help. I think BH has found an exceptional combination of leaf with this blend. Jorge's leaf adds a nice amount of spice and pepper without overpowering the sweetness of the toasted MM. Well balanced.
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Looks really good. Really does look like a Roman Candle! Nice job.
I call it the bRoman Candle. Maybe it should be the BOTL Rocket. I don't know. I'm more marketing than substance.
6x35 CT Shade-wrapped, Sumatran-bound, PA Seco, Nicaraguan Viso, and Dominican Ligero. For the Fourth.
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You don't need to steamroll if you want smoothness.
You just need to cut your wrapper so that when you roll 45-degrees to the edge your veins are aligned perpendicular to the bunch. Then press the veins into the bunch as you roll. All good.
Pressing the veins into the bunch, do we accomplish this by rolling the cigar on the cutting board after wrapping? I've been rolling mine after wrapping with the thought that I was smoothing bumps which I guess would be pushing the veins in...
Two tricks for flat finish....
If you leave your bunch in the mold overnight the 'foundation' will be flatter. Then, if your wrapper is veiny, after you finish wrap them place them back in the mold to finish press them. This does exactly what your saying in that it 'pushes the veins in'. You can let them sit overnight also. As it drys out overnight the veins will stay pressed in. The next day they will be very smooth when you remove them.
If your wrapper is thin and silky then you can get a nice finished roll without second pressing them but I'd still let the initial bunch stay pressed in the mold overnight to get out all the lumps and bumps.
As Bliss mentions above, always make sure your veins are horizontal as you roll the cigar.
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No, I mean during wrapping, as you see me do in my rolling vids. When I get to the vein I roll back and forth and press in.
You gotta wrap on a really clean board to do this; otherwise you get a dark bas relief picture of your veins drawn in tobacco gums on the outside of your stick.
Oh that's how that's supposed to work! I just use a small piece of copper pipe and knock the veins down
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While it seems to work for others, trying to mess with the vein itself with rollers of various sorts has never worked well for me because it reduces to structural integrity of the wrapper and often looks shitty when I try it. So I don't try it anymore.
Me too. Makes the leaf weak where the vein was flattened. All in all, you can't beat a nice wide CT shade or Habano 2000 leaf, from which you can cut yourself a wrapper with insignificant veins.
Could not agree with these statements more. I find even with broadleaf or san Andres I can get a smooth wrap without rolling down the veins using Blakes method. Rolling the bunch back and forth firmly over the vein not only helps flatten it, it helps stretch the wrapper for a smoother finish after it dries. Less work and a better looking finish in my experience.
Yesssssss CG's are my absolute fav! @blisscigarco
Also... didn't someone say blend validation for crowned heads was after 2 months of age?
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Also... didn't someone say blend validation for crowned heads was after 2 months of age?
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It is sort of a perfect vitola, isn't it.