Cigar bunching with a mat.

[waikikigun]

Nice video, inspirational. Thanks for posting. Now I have to go get me a dowel and a clothespin....

 

[LewZephyr]

That is funny Waikikigun. I was thinking the same thing... Well I got a dowel, but haven't seen a clothespin in quite a many year.

 

[deluxestogie]

...haven't seen a clothespin in quite a many year.

They sell them at specialty boutiques, like Target, Walmart, Lowe's, K-mart.

Bob

 

[kullas]

They sell them at specialty boutiques, like Target, Walmart, Lowe's, K-mart.

Bob

Lol now that's funny right there

 

[deluxestogie]

Back when I was young, people wore re-usable clothing. Because of the accumulation of environmental contaminants, a combination of solvents and surfactants was employed to transfer the contaminants from the clothing, back into the environment. A method was devised to utilize solar irradiation to increase the vapor pressure of the residual solvent, allowing it to disperse into the air we breath. In order to optimize this latter process, the treated clothing was suspended outdoors, and prevented from blowing away, by the use of a galvanized steel spring leveraged with two entrapped, slightly angled, wooden splints. This combination of spring and splints was generally known as a "clothespin," even though its design could be applied to holding other items in a fixed configuration: opened bag of frozen lima beans, breached potato chip bag, partially used poly-nylon bag of WLT tobacco leaf, binder of a bunched cigar, etc.

The coil of the spring functions as the lever fulcrum for each
wooden splint, while its two 90º appendages serve to apply
force to the splints, drawing them together. Two parallel
grooves at the narrow end of each splint provide improved
traction, minimizing the risk of fingertip displacement during
the application of compressive force on the assembled
device.
(Originally designed by David M. Smith, from
Springfield, Vermont, in 1853.)

Bob

 

[Chris A]

Nice video Bob. I prefer a flexible shelf lining material that cost about $5.00. It's thicker and allows me to bunch as tightly as I wish. Nice to hear the music. Saw those guys twice back in my college days. Sadly I think they are both gone.

 

[Chris A]

I have a couple pieces of liner left if someone would like to give it a try.

 

[kullas]

I got a whole roll of Naugahyde I bet that would work well

 

[deluxestogie]

Nice to hear the music. Saw those guys twice back in my college days. Sadly I think they are both gone.

From what I understand, Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee hated each other for decades, and never spoke. Over all that time, they continued to perform together. But they would enter from opposite sides of the stage. I'm not sure how they coordinated what they would perform. Maybe it was always the same. I saw them only once live, at the American Theater in San Francisco, 1976. Packin' Up, Gettin' Ready seemed like appropriate music for mat-rolling a cigar.

Bob

 

[waikikigun]

As a youngster, back when these things existed, the only purpose I ever found for'em was to reconstruct'em into match guns. While some people might have washed their vestments, we children in the sugarcane fields on Kauai didn't wear much and what we did wear washed itself in the sea.

Back when I was young, people wore re-usable clothing. Because of the accumulation of environmental contaminants, a combination of solvents and surfactants was employed to transfer the contaminants from the clothing, back into the environment. A method was devised to utilize solar irradiation to increase the vapor pressure of the residual solvent, allowing it to disperse into the air we breath. In order to optimize this latter process, the treated clothing was suspended outdoors, and prevented from blowing away, by the use of a galvanized steel spring leveraged with two entrapped, slightly angled, wooden splints. This combination of spring and splints was generally known as a "clothespin," even though its design could be applied to holding other items in a fixed configuration: opened bag of frozen lima beans, breached potato chip bag, partially used poly-nylon bag of WLT tobacco leaf, binder of a bunched cigar, etc.

The coil of the spring functions as the lever fulcrum for each
wooden splint, while its two 90º appendages serve to apply
force to the splints, drawing them together. Two parallel
grooves at the narrow end of each splint provide improved
traction, minimizing the risk of fingertip displacement during
the application of compressive force on the assembled
device.
(Originally designed by David M. Smith, from
Springfield, Vermont, in 1853.)

Bob