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As I mentioned in part 1, I ordered a cigar mold/press. I ordered this from a website in France which is a bit like Ebay. In French a cigar mold is called 'Moule a Cigare', and the word 'moule' is also a slang word for the female private parts! Well, my cigar mold arrived on Friday, and I had great pleasure in constantly saying to my French fiance 'My moule arrived! My moule arrived!'.
Anyways, it looks like it will do the trick! The size of the cigar which I can make is more or less a 'Tres petit corona'. You can see I have placed a Ramon Allones Small Club Corona in so that you can see the size in perspective. Unfortunately there is a small amount of damage on the mold, inside on the upper portion. The wood is very thin and some of the little pieces which stick out have broken off. It shouldn't pose too much of a problem though. After all it is quite an old mold and I guess some damage is to be expected.
I prefer a Robusto size cigar myself, but have been partial to a smaller one of late. Regardless of the size I prefer to smoke I am actually happy to have this size as it means I can experiment a lot more with different blends etc. I can roll many many more cigars of this size with the amount of tobacco I have ordered and plan to keep track of which leaves are going into which cigars, rolling in batches, bundling and labeling them accordingly. In the future I will look to order a robusto size mold, or just try rolling them freehand.
I also purchased a glass chopping board. I know that traditionally the cigars are rolled on a wooden board but I watched a couple of videos on youtube of rollers from the US who use stainless steel boards. Apparently it is easier to stretch the wrapper leaf out on. I couldn't get hold of a stainless steel board but figure a glass surface will serve the same purpose.
All that's missing now is the tobacco! I've been assured that it should arrive this week sometime. Fingers crossed!
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Anyways, it looks like it will do the trick! The size of the cigar which I can make is more or less a 'Tres petit corona'. You can see I have placed a Ramon Allones Small Club Corona in so that you can see the size in perspective. Unfortunately there is a small amount of damage on the mold, inside on the upper portion. The wood is very thin and some of the little pieces which stick out have broken off. It shouldn't pose too much of a problem though. After all it is quite an old mold and I guess some damage is to be expected.
I prefer a Robusto size cigar myself, but have been partial to a smaller one of late. Regardless of the size I prefer to smoke I am actually happy to have this size as it means I can experiment a lot more with different blends etc. I can roll many many more cigars of this size with the amount of tobacco I have ordered and plan to keep track of which leaves are going into which cigars, rolling in batches, bundling and labeling them accordingly. In the future I will look to order a robusto size mold, or just try rolling them freehand.
I also purchased a glass chopping board. I know that traditionally the cigars are rolled on a wooden board but I watched a couple of videos on youtube of rollers from the US who use stainless steel boards. Apparently it is easier to stretch the wrapper leaf out on. I couldn't get hold of a stainless steel board but figure a glass surface will serve the same purpose.
All that's missing now is the tobacco! I've been assured that it should arrive this week sometime. Fingers crossed!
20120702_201953.jpg20120702_201935.jpg20120702_202005.jpg20120702_201845.jpg20120702_201827.jpg
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