Rolling a Cigar

[James442]

If you enjoy cigars, you'll want to try rolling your own at one point or another. It's worth it for a few reasons:
1) You'll appreciate the work that goes into a good cigar more.
2) It's less expensive and can be tastier depending on how talented you become.
3) It's interesting and can be a fun hobby.
http://www.instructables.com/id/Rolling-a-Cigar/

 

[Hasse SWE]

I think tobacco is a fantastic hobby wat ever you do. Even "only" grow it is really funny..

I will make some cigars and pipe tobacco some days. And your link will then be a help. And I know a lot of people here to ask if I need..

 

[webmost]

If you enjoy cigars, you'll want to try rolling your own at one point or another. It's worth it for a few reasons:
1) You'll appreciate the work that goes into a good cigar more.
2) It's less expensive and can be tastier depending on how talented you become.
3) It's interesting and can be a fun hobby.
http://www.instructables.com/id/Rolling-a-Cigar/

You're missing the most important advantage: You get your hands on the leaves.

Went to yoga couple weeks back, had a substitute yogini, into essential oils, said you rub the eentsiest drop on your palms, your soles, and beneath your ears. I asked why those places. She said your pores are larger and open there. I spose that's why the dog likes to steal your socks and smell your hands, and why I like to smooch my sweetie behind the ear. I tried a droplet of oil the yogini brought on my palms and soles. I could taste it. Soon as I got all yogic, heated up, my lips began to tingle.

When you roll cigars you get fine essential tobacco oils all over your palms, the odor up your nose, and the room redolent.

Better than smoke.

 

[deluxestogie]

James442,
This is a repeat copy-paste post. Please feel free to post your own, original material.

Bob

 

[waikikigun]

@webmost

Yes!

This was one of the great doors to discovery for me in this hobby; what happens (physiologically, psychologically) when you fondle the leaf--especially when it is somewhat moist. Learning about the leaf while at the same time being intoxicated by it creates all sorts of positive and interesting thoughts and sensations.

You're missing the most important advantage: You get your hands on the leaves.

Went to yoga couple weeks back, had a substitute yogini, into essential oils, said you rub the eentsiest drop on your palms, your soles, and beneath your ears. I asked why those places. She said your pores are larger and open there. I spose that's why the dog likes to steal your socks and smell your hands, and why I like to smooch my sweetie behind the ear. I tried a droplet of oil the yogini brought on my palms and soles. I could taste it. Soon as I got all yogic, heated up, my lips began to tingle.

When you roll cigars you get fine essential tobacco oils all over your palms, the odor up your nose, and the room redolent.

Better than smoke.

 

[Knucklehead]

Damn, boys, I think what you are doing is illegal in Utah. All you need is a blow up tobacco doll.

 

[waikikigun]

@Knucklehead If it's not illegal there, it should be. If anyone there finds out what a damp tobacco leaf resembles, forget about it....

 

[deluxestogie]

But does it compare to the feeling one gets seeing Harrison Ford come up to Chewbaca in the Millennium Falcon, and say, "Chewy, we're home."

Bob

 

[waikikigun]

@deluxestogie Seems like that's going to be a moment we all remember to our graves, doesn't it, Bob. I was too old to be a Star Wars nut as a kid but I smiled and a tear came to my eye when I saw the end of that clip yesterday.

 

[deluxestogie]

In-case tobacco leaf, of different varieties, seems to trigger powerful olfactory memories. The nostalgia, for me at least, seems to hearken back to my childhood (in the 1950's), when my parents, most of my close relatives, and nearly everybody else smoked cigarettes or cigars or a pipe. Same thing with walking into the kitchen in the morning, to the aroma of coffee. Tobacco and coffee "are" home.

Bob

 

[waikikigun]

@deluxestogie Well-put. My girlfriend of 25 years doesn't and has never smoked, but her "leg man" (prosthetics doc) when she was a kid in Oklahoma in the sixties always smoked a cigar while he worked on her leg stuff. So when I started smoking cigars in the early 90s it was fine with her. It was even good. And she even lets me smoke inside.

 

[WLJayne]

I catch my gf with her nose in the humi quite often, so loves the smell of the cigars. Especially the ones I've been rolling lately, that leaf is fragrant as heck!

 

[DiamondCreek]

WLJayne, your gf has the right idea. Just something about snuffling a recently rolled cigar that is almost spiritual.

 

[deluxestogie]

DiamondCreek,
Welcome to the forum.

Bob