Pics of your sticks!!

[deluxestogie]

Cartoon Cigar

For unknown reasons, whenever a cartoon character smoked a cigar (back when reality was okay in a cartoon), it looked like this:

This puppy is wrapped in Don's new Habana 2000 wrapper. Veins are medium. The flavor is a subtle, nutty touch on the tongue, and about as mild as the Ecuador Shade, though its aroma is a bit richer. It comes into case rapidly. Tensile strength is excellent, and the stretch is perfect. It is burning evenly to a bright white ash as I type this. The leaf size is long and wide enough for the largest of honkers, and has room to spare for a fancy inverse curve trim at the foot, to accommodate this fat perfecto tip. (My perfecto rolling still comes out a tad lopsided, but it's improving.)

This shape, for a fat cigar, is easy to light, and easy on the jaw, though it may trigger an irrational backlash, if shown (even unlit) in public.

Bob

 

[MarcL]

I like it Bob. can hardly wait to get hold of some of that wrapper. How fat is that? looks to be about a 70 RG.

 

[Brooksy]

I was on a perfecto rolling kick for a while. Mine looked alot like yours. Smoked great too! I'll try rolling some pyramids one of these days....I do get a few by accident now.

 

[deluxestogie]

How fat is that? looks to be about a 70 RG.

It's too late to measure it, but I would guess that it was a smidge over 60 at the widest, tapering to about 45 at the head.

Bob

 

[Chris A]

I used to have a bunch of cigars that looked like that. They were made by Rolando Reyes's company & were part of the lawsuit he had with Lew Rothman of JR, I believe. Branded as Puros Indios & Cuba Aliados. Great cigars in my opinion. Too bad mine are all gone.

 

[deluxestogie]

Rothman complained about Reyes in his catalog for years after that. Alas, JR is now run by a collection of marketing weenies.

Bob

 

[Knucklehead]

Has anybody got a few Bezuki seeds that they can please send my way?
Ben

I bought some from this German seed site, then spread them out among myself and three other people. If you need some now, you can order from the seed site, they take Paypal. If you can wait, we'll have some floating around this fall.
http://translate.google.com/transla...=UTF-8&u=http://www.tabakanbau.de/de/shop.php

 

[MarcL]

It's too late to measure it, but I would guess that it was a smidge over 60 at the widest, tapering to about 45 at the head.

Bob

Really? last time I checked the human thumb was an inch wide.

 

[Ben Brand]

Will wait tll fall. Don't come right with PayPal in this country. Thanks.

 

[deluxestogie]

Really? last time I checked the human thumb was an inch wide.

I do believe that I am human. Measuring my human thumb at the joint position and angle shown in the photo, I come up with exactly 3/4".

Bob the Human

 

[Knucklehead]

I do believe that I am human. Measuring my human thumb at the joint position and angle shown in the photo, I come up with exactly 3/4".

Bob the Human

Bob, I'm not following your logic. If the human thumb is one inch, and yours is three quarter inches, that would make you Bob the Inhuman. Or am I missing something?

 

[Mad Oshea]

Bob, I'm not following your logic. If the human thumb is one inch, and yours is three quarter inches, that would make you Bob the Inhuman. Or am I missing something?

I did too, I even got out the tape measure. Mine is one inch. However Your foot is the same as Your forarm. Hum? But the water in My drain spins to the left here when it drains no matter what and in NZ it spins to the right.

 

[deluxestogie]

Gosh. I should probably measure some other body parts. My parents raised me as a human, but... maybe I'm a rustica.

I guess size really does matter.

Regardless of my species (or even genus), that cartoon cigar was about 60 ring. A lit 70 is more like a bonfire.

Bob

 

[MarcL]

Y'all are funny... I believe you Bob, It's just that even taking in consideration that your camera lens is a wide angle, and flattening your thumb, it looks larger then an inch. jus sayin.

 

[Mad Oshea]

When I was a young man. The fair would have cigars for prizes. They were a foot long and about five or six inches around. You could win one even at 12 yrs. old. But never smoke it! tast like chit and was funny to look at due to the size. I think They called it a Texas cigar at the time. LOL Don't see them any more. PS: Nice 3/4 inch thumb. I think they do the same on fish photos to make em biger LOL. Just joking. That is some nice leaf as well as stick.

 

[deluxestogie]

MarcL, Nice cigar.

Bob

 

[MarcL]

When I was a young man. The fair would have cigars for prizes. They were a foot long and about five or six inches around. You could win one even at 12 yrs. old. But never smoke it! taste like chit and was funny to look at due to the size. I think They called it a Texas cigar at the time. LOL Don't see them any more.

I saw something like that on the boardwalk in Wildwood, NJ last summer. It was about that size.

PS: Nice 3/4 inch thumb. I think they do the same on fish photos to make em biger LOL. Just joking. That is some nice leaf as well as stick.

loltms... I like to use scrap wrapper to wick moisture from my cigars.

MarcL, Nice cigar.

Bob

Thanks. it's 6X59, shot with a 70mm lens.

This one is shot with a 48mm.

 

[Bruck]

My latest batch:

14 in all, various lengths, 6 with Ecuador Maduro wrapper, 8 wrapped in Ecuador Shade. Binder is Aleman (born in Germany, processed in DR). Innards are a little stronger than my usual blend - a little more ligero and a little less seco.

 

[Knucklehead]

Super nice cigars. Welcome to the forum.

 

[Bruck]

Super nice cigars. Welcome to the forum.

Tnx vm. Been at it a few months. Took a "lesson" in cigar rolling at the Graycliff factory in the Bahamas in January & got hooked