Newbie rolling

[Dominican56]

Rolled 6 of these 60rg dog legs from my scraps.
EC ligero wrap.
They ain't pretty but fun to roll.

Man, rolling scraps is a bitch!

I bet it's 7 inches long.

 

[Dominican56]

I may have to cut it in two to smoke it.

 

[Dominican56]

I really don't like wasting leaves when so much hard work and processing goes into them. The stick may be crap or good. One other from scrap was surprisingly interesting.

 

[Dominican56]

My wooden mold has way too much oil on it

So I can't think of anything that likes oil better than all purpose flower.

A few days with flower might fix it.

 

[Dominican56]

I rolled a whole lot tonight including the oil soaked sticks

And there are 12 in the 54rg mold to be wrapped tomorrow night.

The last pic are all hand rolled and aren't pretty. I don't care I need to stash some smokes so I have them. Roll more than you smoke is the mantra.

 

[Marc L]

I used paper, scrap tobacco. most of all it was repeated rubbing in and time. .. looks oily in this pic though. I think its the flash.

 

[Marc L]

I do not like to have my wood to be not under pressure at anytime.

 

[webmost]

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Had to do some weekend grilling and taste testing. This was from the original test batch. Roughly two weeks of age. I know that is way premature from what you guys have told me.
My god am I shocked. There were moments where it was drawing too tight. That was surprising to me as I thought I was rolling too loose to begin with.
The flavor is is amazing.

I am getting glue goop from chewing and rolling around on the tip as I always tend to do. No surprise as this is from my glued up pig tail learning phase. I am sure to this day I am still using too much glue.

Down to the nub I am loving this smoke. There is just so much more character. It's not as smooth as a psd4 but dammit that's not what I expected. We are grillin early afternoon and the weeny dogs are raising hell in the grass and we are partying in the backyard and that is this cigar baby.

Enjoy your holiday and roll on.

Grilling weiners, looks like.

 

[Dominican56]

This blend is a winner
Rolled last night and it has nice transitions. Vanilla, maple syrup sweetness, a little pepper but not much.
BMF, Jorge Viso, corojo Viso, nic seco, Sumatra binder, ligero wrapper
54rg

 

[blisscigarco]

This blend is a winner
Rolled last night and it has nice transitions. Vanilla, maple syrup sweetness, a little pepper but not much.
BMF, Jorge Viso, corojo Viso, nic seco, Sumatra binder, ligero wrapper
54rg

Awesome. Which Nic seco? LO or WLT? Which BMF?

 

[Dominican56]

 

[blisscigarco]

Wow!

 

[Marc L]

thats funny. no words needed..

 

[Dominican56]

Bliss, I'll check where I got the leaves and let you know.

 

[Dominican56]

Something that worked for me, 6 test rolls from last night went into the refrigerator overnight to dry out. That worked very well for drying.

Lucky enough the fridge doesn't smell of onion or food.

 

[Dominican56]

It's going to work great!
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[Dominican56]

It cleaned up very well.
Gonna work great on two or three molds a time.

 

[Dominican56]

The flour helped extract some oil from the mold I think
Going to use that trash WLT wrapper and scrap to make some test runs

 

[Marc L]

. stop. no. dont. .. have you seen this? nice right?

 

[Dominican56]

I like that a lot!
Marc, you have everything cigar!