Lancero

[daniel.bratley]

Hi fellow leafs

I tried a Lancero for the first time yesterday and found that it had an impossible draw on it! Is this common thing for Lanceros or did I just get a unlucky one? It was a Trinidad fundadores Lancero

Thanks
Daniel


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[ha_banos]

Hi fellow leafs

I tried a Lancero for the first time yesterday and found that it had an impossible draw on it! Is this common thing for Lanceros or did I just get a unlucky one? It was a Trinidad fundadores Lancero

Thanks
Daniel


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Bad luck fella. Not unique to the lancero and not unique to the marqua. I had a Cohiba Secretos yesterday that had a very tight draw. Unfortunately seems to happen more with Cuban cigars than non.

See my post from yesterday. Mine wasn't tight so to speak, it was plugged. What I mean is I pulled some tobacco from the head. A few bits and a couple of veins came out. Then the cigar was fine! Shame it wasn't draw tested... [emoji57]

It certainly felt ok to the touch. So I was lucky I could unplug it.

This is the reason there's a market for draw tools, like the PerfecDraw for example.

I don't have this issue much at all. Been literally only a handful of sticks in over a decade. Every Fundi I've had has been fine. I've probably had half a dozen or so.

It's bad luck. It's annoying and it's expensive. You can complain to your cigar merchant. Some will replace it! Like our sponsor.

[Shaun]

Take a box of 24 fundys then typically in my experience 2 or 3 will be tight and need the tool. However if you overhumidify and most shops do then even a well rolled cigar can feel tight. I find fully plugged cigars really quite rare now but they do happen.

[puropunch]

if i take a cuban from the humidor i also take the perfecdraw with me...never, ever, ever had a tight or plugged n.c.

I will run and hide!!

[Simon Bolivar]

I bought a Perfect Draw a year ago & only needed it a couple of times for friends not my own. The slimmer the cigar the drier you wan to smoke it, dry boxing for a day or two helps, especially for 32 & 28's. The other problem with Cohiba's is that they really need age & that tends to help.
Any plugging tends to be around the band, so you shouldn't have to poke your tool to far in to make a difference. I used to use a cocktail stick, this works but although it creates an air passage, it also compresses, whereas the Perfect Draw removes tobacco, remove a little re-try the draw, if not easy enough - remove a little more.