Franken-gar

[larrysson]

Most of the Epi Especial's recently gifted to me had badly damaged wrappers. However the sticks seemed at the proper hydration for smoking, so it was a matter of experimenting with patching up the damage. There were other cigars too far gone which provided the patchwork leaf material for the repairs. I mixed up some home made pectin glue, which worked very well. Below are pictures of the cigar, the repair - looking very much like a Frankenstein operation - and then a couple of pictures how the cigar burned. Even though the cigar looked doubtful, I was more than pleased that I saved the cigar and the fact it burned and smoked very well, right down to the very last inch. I feel confident I can save all of them.

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[mcdee]

Good effort.

Although you could probably smoke them okay even with the wrapper damage. I once managed to smoke a petit Quintero which had the wrapper completely sheared off up to the band.

[ha_banos]

Great save. Did you wrap another wrapper around the wrapper? Or just bits of wrapper to patch up? Did you use binder or filter leaves to patch up?

I had a head come off a custom lancero recently. Gave me lots of anxiety. Plenty of glue seems to have fixed it but next smoking day will show.

[larrysson]

I used bits of wrapper from this pot of very poorly cigars. Out of further experimentation, I smoked a cigar today that had the wrapper missing off the first inch. It expanded and started to burn unevenly, but made a full recovery. I wish I knew where to find whole leaf so I could play around with re-wrapping. Any ideas?

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[Emaresee]

I admire your patience and perseverance!

[Midas]

There was a thread on another forum where someone had repaired cracks with Raw rolling paper with good success. If you run out of donor cigars or want to try and save a few more try giving that a go as well.


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