Pics of your sticks!! 2021

[Biglizard1]

Stuck in the studio apartment again for a week.
Trying a new blend:

All WLT sourced.
San Vincente Ligero, with the remainder of the Peruvian Seco, with a Vuelta Abajo Binder...and then finished with a Habano 2000 Rosado? wrapper.
Two finished last night and the remainder tonight.

 

[Biglizard1]

Four tonight to add to my little box.
Things I miss from home ( family, comfy chair, and my tuck cutter.)

 

[MarcL]

Is this toothy?

 

[deluxestogie]

Yes. It's from the leaf's prominent trichomes. Some have it, some don't.

Bob

 

[MarcL]

It's San Andres wrapper from an earlier post in this thread.

 

[deluxestogie]

Does the San Andres wrapper ash look toothy?

Bob

 

[MarcL]

..while not sure I can produce a pic of such a thing at this moment, (not to say I don't have one already) I am sure that it does for sure as you said above. Making a new pic of such a display is not a problem.

 

[deluxestogie]

The reason I was asking is that I have assumed a toothy looking wrapper will always result in a toothy looking ash. But I'm not sure that is true.

Bob

 

[MarcL]

 

[waikikigun]

Crap. I think my camera is overheating....

 

[jvnshr]

This one had been in the drybox for 12 days, I couldn't resist more.

 

[BamaTinkerer]

I believe this was PC filler and V.A. seco as binder with a Los Rios wrapper. My back porch is also my "Keep an eye on curing tobacco in shed" spot-So I spend the mornings sipping coffee and checking on the temp/humidity.

 

[Cray Squirrel]

I believe this was PC filler and V.A. seco as binder with a Los Rios wrapper. My back porch is also my "Keep an eye on curing tobacco in shed" spot-So I spend the mornings sipping coffee and checking on the temp/humidity.

Hard work but someone has to do it...

 

[deluxestogie]

That's a beautiful wrapper. There aren't too many claro wrappers in this thread.

Bob

 

[Nico]

Cigars i rolled before I had 6 a month break. It’s between my 30th and 50th rolls. As you can see I have real problem with capping. But the pics don’t do them justice. They look better IRL but nowhere near commercial quality of course.
2nd pic is one that smoked a couple of days ago (it’s not a candela wrapper. It’s just really dark). Have to say that I’ve really nailed the construction part of rolling. Out of the 22 I’ve smoked so far only a handful had construction problems. In fact, most them burned pretty even. But I really need to work on the aesthetics.

 

[waikikigun]

These are wrapped in Indo Sumatra which I got off Webmost years ago, which he got off FX Smith & Sons before they got off American soil.

 

[Cray Squirrel]

These are wrapped in Indo Sumatra which I got off Webmost years ago, which he got off FX Smith & Sons before they got off American soil.

Lots of tobacco being grown in Indonesia. Was thru there a year ago and saw lots of it being grown. I saw industrious people able to feed themselves and their family from growing tobacco. It has gotten hard for people to get to Sumatra and think much of it has to be the attacks and pushing to not have children working in the industry causing strained feelings. It's hard to feed a family in many parts of the world. Wish things could be better but the Indonesians I see in person and talk to online are happy, healthy and well fed. Children many times are working on family acreages helping support and provide for all. They need the income. Still growing mostly rice and now more palm oil in small family or communal set ups. The big plantations for rubber, different fruits, tobacco and palm oil continue to get larger and subsume smaller agribusinesses. I've helped plant rice fields by hand working with the local people. Usually women, teens.
Can't say much about their version of beach development. Hehehehe
pretty rough and ready part of the world. I wouldn't plan on sneaking in and checking out the industry, unless you know your way around. fun to be around. They also know where to find the best durian..yumyummy
good tobacco, good people..

 

[deluxestogie]

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We'll allow this thread to continue with Pics of Your Sticks.

 

[waikikigun]

Lots of tobacco being grown in Indonesia. Was thru there a year ago and saw lots of it being grown. I saw industrious people able to feed themselves and their family from growing tobacco. It has gotten hard for people to get to Sumatra and think much of it has to be the attacks and pushing to not have children working in the industry causing strained feelings. It's hard to feed a family in many parts of the world. Wish things could be better but the Indonesians I see in person and talk to online are happy, healthy and well fed. Children many times are working on family acreages helping support and provide for all. They need the income. View attachment 39359Still growing mostly rice and now more palm oil in small family or communal set ups. The big plantations for rubber, different fruits, tobacco and palm oil continue to get larger and subsume smaller agribusinesses. I've helped plant rice fields by hand working with the local people. Usually women, teens.View attachment 39362
Can't say much about their version of beach development. Hehehehe
pretty rough and ready part of the world. I wouldn't plan on sneaking in and checking out the industry, unless you know your way around. View attachment 39360 fun to be around. They also know where to find the best durian..yumyummy
good tobacco, good people..
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Nice write-up and photos. Thanks for the info. Yeah I've been in touch with a few Indos through the years, people who see my Youtube videos and IG posts mostly. Very friendly. Fascinating area and history. Seems like there must still be some Dutch plantations there, too, because I've noticed some Dutch companies making oldschool cigars with Indo tobacco like back in the day.

I have quite a nice supply of that Indo wrapper. I dig it, and I whip it out once or twice a year when I get the itch.

 

[Cray Squirrel]

Nice write-up and photos. Thanks for the info. Yeah I've been in touch with a few Indos through the years, people who see my Youtube videos and IG posts mostly. Very friendly. Fascinating area and history. Seems like there must still be some Dutch plantations there, too, because I've noticed some Dutch companies making oldschool cigars with Indo tobacco like back in the day.

Yes I think that the Dutch are a few if not more, of the large plantation owners. Much more organized than the other growers. I believe the Dutch are also in rubber but in talking to some of the rubber plantation owners that business is dying in Indonesia with China taking it to China.
Yes We all remember from our childhood the old Dutch Masters cigar boxes. Handy thing..