Pics of Your Sticks

[blisscigarco]

Test quickie, comprised of five small Pelo do Oro seco, bound and wrapped in one Ugandan Dark Air Cured:

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Leaf in the bag smells just like a PA tobacco barn.
Wrapper super thing, reasonably stretchy, very flexi, lays flat.
What a color! What a shine!

Smokes mild.

Sure is pretty

 

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Here's the Brazilian Foiano

ROTT:


... and next day:


Same tobacco barn odor. Will know more when I spark it later today.

 

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This Foiano also smells like the drying barn.
Much wrinklier & hence harder to work with.
Smokes like exactly why I don't care for maduros.
Coffee.
Not for me.

 

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Daily Habit # 53, September 2019:


4 1/2 T-13 viso bound in FXSS Indonesian wrapper, wrapped in FXSS CT shade
Sparked this last night
Mellow

 

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[FrostD]

Batch 1/3 bound up of some “triple Ligero” blends. I will be naming them B. Hooligans, since [mention]BrewinHooligan [/mention] suggested to try out some triple Ligero blends.

This first batch I call P.B. Hooligan’s (P is for Paraguayan fillers). This first batch also ends up being a double Ligero + Viso. Time to prep up the 4 different wrapper variations as well!

P.B. Hooligan’s
Wrappers:
-Ecuadorian Shade Seco
-Ecuadorian Cameroon
-Brazil Cubra Viso
-Sumatra

Binder variations (22 of each binder):
*All have double binders*
-Cameroon
-Dominican Vuelta Abajo
-Dominican (Piloto Cubano)

Filler:
-Paraguayan Criollo Ligero
-Paraguayan Flojo Africa Ligero
-Paraguayan Flojo Africa Viso

 

[FrostD]

Also, bound up some “left over blend scrap” & bag scrap sticks from the “master” scrap bag from all previous blends. 32 total used with double and a few triple binders from the previous post of binders used that were left over.

 

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That's a whole lotta newspapers

 

[FrostD]

That's a whole lotta newspapers

Lol! Helps get my reading in and some intel on items that are being effected by inflation. Been practicing without molds with this batch. Fingers crossed they turn out 1/2 way decent looking. I’ve been finding I can roll more faster without a mold.

 

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[BrewinHooligan]

Another one that was stashed long enough to forget about. Was also another experience that tells me I need to make a habit of hiding sticks from myself for long periods of time

 

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Here's a quickie test stick, rolled just this minute, 3 big leaves of WLT's T-13 viso bound in half a leaf of French DAC then wrapped in another half leaf of the same. This T-13 is Criollo grafted on Piloto, or vice versa. It's big and nice enough that I ought to make the binder out of it. Working toward a new birthday blend to roll next week. Looks shiny & nice. We'll see what it looks like once it shrinks down.

 

[FrostD]

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Here's a quickie test stick, rolled just this minute, 3 big leaves of WLT's T-13 viso bound in half a leaf of French DAC then wrapped in another half leaf of the same. This T-13 is Criollo grafted on Piloto, or vice versa. It's big and nice enough that I ought to make the binder out of it. Working toward a new birthday blend to roll next week. Looks shiny & nice. We'll see what it looks like once it shrinks down.

That T-13 is a fantastic leaf imho! Sounds like a good one Web!

 

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drying down nice and tight:

 

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shiny

 

[Growley Monster]

The center four were rolled this morning, the two on either end were rolled a couple days ago. Trying out a new band design. Just wanted the curious to know that this isn't a "It's A BOY!" cigar. Every recipe is on the band. Been rolling for about three months now.

 

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XLNT

 

[FrostD]

W-Brazil Cubra Viso
B-Cameroon
F-Paraguayan Flojo Ligero
Paraguayan Flojo Viso
Paraguayan Criollo Ligero
*Paper strip molded

 

[Growley Monster]

First three rolled yesterday morning, all the same recipe. The other four rolled this morning, mixed bag. Trying some different stuff. The last two on the right are all Sumatra Seco.