Pics of your sticks!!

[mwaller]

Beautiful! What are the dimensions?

san vicente, criollo viso, flojo seco, mata fina fillers. dom seco binder, corojo wrapper

 

[MarcL]

Beautiful! What are the dimensions?

47 RG by 5 3/8 and 5 5/8

 

[mwaller]

Excellent - I love the format!

47 RG by 5 3/8 and 5 5/8

 

[Youn]

Happy to you... very quick to deliver... Don is a magic man... he have action with USPS lol

Yeah! Good surprise on monday!! My nose went crazy when I opened the bags! The Nicaragua Habano Ligero have an incredible smell of cocoa, I just have handelled a few leaves and my fingers remainded full of it for hours!

 

[deluxestogie]

Yeah! Good surprise on monday!! My nose went crazy when I opened the bags! The Nicaragua Habano Ligero have an incredible smell of cocoa, I just have handelled a few leaves and my fingers remainded full of it for hours!

CAUTION: Although WLT bags do not post the warning, some members have been found with their head entirely inside the bag.

Bob

 

[Youn]

CAUTION: Although WLT bags do not post the warning, some members have been found with their head entirely inside the bag.

Bob

hahaha! I believe it!

 

[deluxestogie]

Quick Stogie

Nothing fancy here. This stogie is filled with one leaf of Little Dutch and one leaf of Long Red. The bag of Long Red contained a still-tied hand. After carefully unwrapping the tie leaf, and finding it intact, I decided that it would make a really fine stogie wrapper. A stogie is a long, skinny cigar. The dark (upper stalk) Long Red half-leaf is so narrow, and the vein angle is so steep, that it can only be used to wrap a fairly narrow ring gauge. But it's long--long enough to roll a real stogie.

I did not trim the wrapper at all (not enough leaf width to trim), and I did not use a binder. So I ended up with a somewhat lumpy stogie. Ring gauge varied between about 42 and 48. After reaching the head with the wrapper, its long and stretchy tail invited me to close it with a knot. This is not a tied knot, although you can do that. It's made by holding the tip of the wrapper tag taut, while rolling the stogie against the board. As the twist becomes tighter, it begins to form its own secondary knots. Ideally, this twist knot is brought down snugly against the cigar head. I failed at that part. A twist knot is helpful if I don't plan to smoke the un-glued cigar immediately.

The cigar draws and burns well. The taste is woody, and the aroma is dark and leathery. I think a lighter color PA Broadleaf wrapper would improve the balance.

Bob

 

[Youn]

Quick Stogie

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Love this format!

I tried to make a "stogie" yesterday but mine does not reached more than 6 inches long and a 36/38 ring gauge.

 

[deluxestogie]

Youn,
That looks like a quite respectable stogie, and is more uniform than mine. Nice work.

Bob

 

[Thedbs999]

Bob

That stogie is awful close to being a Marsh Wheeling, although, I think they used Pa Red.

Dan

 

[deluxestogie]

Bob

That stogie is awful close to being a Marsh Wheeling, although, I think they used Pa Red.

Dan

And Marsh surely didn't use long filler during the past 100 years.

Bob

 

[Tutu]

Youn, did you smoke it yet? How was its draw?

 

[Youn]

Youn, did you smoke it yet? How was its draw?

Yes, I smoked it straightaway, it has been made in the style of Bob, dry as possible and without glue, for a direct smoke.

It drew well, just a bit unevenly burning of the wrapper, as you can see in the pictures, but nothing serious (I had applied the wrapper upside down - veins at the outside of the stick - because I'm still feeling uncomfortable when rolling from right to left).

 

[Gavroche]

Nice Youn...

 

[Thedbs999]

Good looking stogie

Dan

 

[deluxestogie]

English-style Pipe Blend Cigar

Using the whole tobacco leaf ingredients shown above, which comprise a typical English-style pipe blend, with flue-cured Virginia--both Lemon and Red, an Oriental, some of my 3 year-old Blue Ridge Latakia (which has mellowed considerably with age), and some Perique made with Chillard's White Angel Leaf, I rolled a cigar. I didn't want to further moisten the VA Lemon, which I used as the binder and wrapper, so it's got a few wrinkles and bumps.

It draws nicely, and burns fairly well, though a little unevenly. It's the equivalent of two or three generous pipe bowls of an English/Balkan blend that I never have to tamp and re-light. My Blue Ridge Latakia is still a little edgier than real Latakia, and is not as floral, but is tasty, and imparts an enjoyable, smokey character. My Chillard's Perique virtually eliminates any flue-cure tongue bite.

The cross-section at the foot looks just like your average English pipe bend.

Bob

 

[Tutu]

Although usually I'm not a big fan of these yellow style wrappers, it does do justice to what is supposed to be an pipe-blend cigar. The cross-section picture is nice as well, I like those!

 

[deluxestogie]

Brunch

I woke up at 9:45 this morning. I managed to take my various pills, and get my fake teeth put in straight. Sometimes, odd cigars happen when I’m a little fuzzy in the brain. This cigar is about 52 ring at the head, and maybe 70 or more at the foot. I’m guessing the length is about 6-1/2 inches. I don’t remember exactly what the wrapper is, since I prepped the leaf some time yesterday. It uses a double binder of Sumatra to wrangle its girth. The filler is Corojo ligero, Piloto Cubano viso and Paraguay Flojo. Hmm...there may be some Nicaragua Habano viso in there too. Where I go wrong is that I have no sense of an appropriate quantity of each filler component when I’ve just gotten out of bed. So I occasionally end up with a monstrosity, like this one. I remember thinking that it felt mighty thick, as I goaded all that filler into the binder.

But it smokes like a champ. The draw is excellent, which I attribute to my auto-pilot fingertips, after having rolled over 10,000 cigars. (Idle hands are the devil’s workshop!) When fuzzy upstairs, I still usually succeed in my blending ratios, which was true today as well. So the taste is rich and full, without making my head spin.

It’s nearly lunch time already, and I’m still smoking my breakfast cigar, while nursing a huge mug of coffee, and enjoying a sunny, 70 degree day, sitting on my front porch. Overhead, the wispy, high cirrus clouds of Hurricane Maria drift past.

I suppose there is something that I should be doing.

Bob

 

[waikikigun]

I think you're doing it already, aren't you?

 

[Gavroche]

You have all smoked ? complete Bob ?