"dsigned001 - O.R.C. hunter" (dsigned001)
08/03/2018 at 00:07 • Filed to: None
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"dsigned001 - O.R.C. hunter" (dsigned001)
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After a few attempts with some Virginia flue cure, I broke down and bought 1/4 lb of Dominican filler, fronto and a fronto wrapper. This guy’s video is what I followed along with, and the results are well worth the effort. Easily better than anything I could afford to smoke otherwise.
It even kinda looks like a cigar!
fhrblig
> dsigned001 - O.R.C. hunter
08/03/2018 at 00:59 |
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T his would never have occurred to me as something I could do, TBH. That’s pretty cool, though!
ttyymmnn
> dsigned001 - O.R.C. hunter
08/03/2018 at 01:00 |
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I smoked cigars (too) regularly for more than 25 years before I stopped last year. Stopped—not quit. I still enjoy a stick once a month or so. But I never tried to roll my own. I went to Ybor City in Tampa Bay many years ago and bought a cigar from a man who rolled it while I waited. It was terrible. The thing just burned up the center because the roll was so bad. Nice job. Enjoy!
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dsigned001 - O.R.C. hunter
> fhrblig
08/03/2018 at 01:55 |
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I came to it in a somewhat roundabout way, after realizing that whole tobacco leaf didn’t count as
“tobacco product” and was correspondingly crazy cheap. My first batch of leaf (1/4 lb is the smallest increment they sell, and it’s about $7) was going to be for pipe smoking, but shredding the leaf, as well as getting the “just right” moisture level, turned out to be a lot of work. Also, 1/4 lb is a lot of tobacco (for reference, a normal satchel of pipe tobacco is 1.5 oz vs. about 4 oz. in the 1/4 lb) is a lot of tobacco. Like one or two leaves is enough for several weeks of pretty consistent pipe
smoking, which is a lot more than I smoke. So I figured I’d try my hand at rolling a cigar. The first three or so were not good. But they were good enough that I thought I’d give it another go, and what you see pictured is the result.
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dsigned001 - O.R.C. hunter
> ttyymmnn
08/03/2018 at 02:03 |
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Lol, sorry to hear about the bad roll. Honestly, mine was probably not much better. According to the guy in the video, there are a couple thresholds where the cigars get better. You can smoke them right away, or you can wait like four to five weeks, or you can wait like four to five months (if I’m remembering his stuff correctly). I have a method of rolling the cigar in printer paper after I put the binder on as kind of a poor man’s cigar mold. I will probably make a mold eventually (take a couple halfway decent boards, clamp them, and drill a hole down the middle), but in the meantime, I think the paper may do well enough. I will say that if I was anywhere but Colorado, an afternoon probably wouldn’t have been enough time for the wrapper to dry, and even so, it was wetter than any cigar I’ve ever smoked previously. It burned well enough (I’ve had worse), but I definitely would like to see what a few days would do. I’m not sure I’m patient enough to wait a month, at this point.
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> dsigned001 - O.R.C. hunter
08/03/2018 at 09:45 |
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