I don't believe a word of it, Dom. It takes all of ten seconds to cut a cap & glue it on the end of your gar. It takes two secs to tuck it in a mold. So far, you're out twelve whole secs. It takes eggs ackley zero time to "wait for them go go through a mold" ... cause you don't sit there and wait for it, dude. You stick it in the mold, you walk away. In fact, I'd even go the other way round. I'd bet bunching is way more than your 12 secs quicker when you rely on a mold to smooth it all out. You don't have to "try to with each roll to get the shape and pack just right". Nope. Whip a knobbly mess together & your mold makes it right.
Let's put a clock on it. I'm ready to wager an oil can sized Fosters you can actually roll a gar quicker with a mold than without.
In fact, if it wasn't quicker, they'd make all those hand rolled gars without, wouldn't they?
Not that I don't like unmolded quickies. I do. I just don't buy the time saving aspect.
Plus there's this: Back when I was a boatbuilder, I'd quiz the trendy trimariners, why'd they want to go cruising on a boat built so light, to plane across the water, that they'd have to count each & every pocketbook they stashed, and worry what each beer weighed, and stint their spares, and such. They'd say: "cause it's faster." True, my schooner was doing eight knots to their twenty in a blow. But, think about it, twenty ain't fast anyways. Twenty knots is a pain in the butt creeping past the elementary school at schoolbus o'clock in the afternoon.. Thing is, if you don't like sailing, so much that you have to get it over with, then take the airplane, fer cryin out loud. Now that's fast. If you enjoy the sea, on the other hand, kick back and ex lax. Pop open one of the hundreds of beers you stowed in the hold. Crack a good book. Troll a lure. Enjoy. You're already where you want to be. Pago Pago will heave in view all in good time.
