Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunter's Campfire Has anyone here rolled a cigar?

And not a "re-roll" or "blunt" either!

While prepping some brass I'm enjoying a cigar I rolled at a La Gloria Cubana Serie R Esteli event held at a local cigar shop a while back. It's been resting in one of my humidors.

At the event there was a master roller making event exclusive cigars in a large torpedo format. He was also showing newbies how to roll a straight sided cigar in a 6x50 format. The innards, i.e. pre-bunched filler and binder, were a standard La Gloria blend, and the wrappers were Esteli leaves that didn't make the appearance standard for commercial use.

My cigar turned out to be pretty good. After the first 3/4" or so the burned evened out nicely. It's been a good, straightforward med-full bodied smoke.

I have studied how to do it and I have grown several kinds of cigar tobaccos but never cured or tried to roll one.

Hatin' on the grape-a-licious blizzy wrap aficionados out there? Pretty elitist, yo...

Did one once at a local cigar event. Didn't turn out great. But was cool to do it.

Mine wasn't great, but it was pretty good. If I could do it over again I'd try for a bit tighter roll.

Every morning, sometimes twice depending on the previous menu.

Went to a cigar factory in the town of Esteli in Nicaragua and got to see it done, does that count? Real old school stuff by the looks of it.

In the 70s I liked to go down to Ponte Vedra, FL and watch the old Cubans roll and sell cigars sitting out on the streets.

No....but I've rolled a LOT of these:

Patch board by Rick Mulhern, on Flickr

Those will smoke things too!