Video of cigar being rolled

[Pantomimehorse]

This is a video of the Cuban cigar roller rolling me one of my Churchill cigars last Thursday , enjoy:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4PGaTdEfjp8

[El Catador]

This is a video of the Cuban cigar roller rolling me one of my Churchill cigars last Thursday , enjoy:

Whenever I light up a CC I always like to think it's been hand made by a dusky, Latin maiden who rolled it on her moist thigh before popping it into the box ().

Damn, there goes another illusion shattered!
Still, a fascinating process and video. Nice job.

[Habana-Habanos]

Very nice video..

Cheers for sharing.

-HH.

[Stevieboy]

Fascinating video Chris...amazing to think that he can make it in 6 minutes even after a false-start with the wrapper. Thanks for that mate

[monkey66]

Great video!

[cigarsmoke]

Thanks for the video Chris. Nice looking cigar too.

Have you smoked it yet or are you keeping it?

[Pantomimehorse]

smoked one same day, and have kept one

[Daize]

Great video Chris ! Sat there entranced watching it. Hope it tasted as good as it was rolled

[Boss Hog]

Great video,

Does anyone know why he teared a bit out of the center of the filler each time he folded a leaf over near the start?

[cbob]

Great video,

Does anyone know why he teared a bit out of the center of the filler each time he folded a leaf over near the start?

He is stripping out the thick part of the central rib (vein) in each of the filler leaves. Filler is always delivered un-stripped and I was taught to remove the entire vein, not just the thicker top part.
Notice that the binder has had the entire center rib removed, resulting in two "half-leaves". They are delivered that way to the roller since any thick veins will show through the thin wrapper. ( You have all seen this!)
I was surprised at the way he overlapped the two binder leaves-normally they are placed with overlapping edges, not at the V-shaped angle he uses.
Notice that he uses his chavetta on the newly-bound cigar to trim out a bit of the head. He will later, after finishing the head with a "flag", just before applying the round bit of cap, press a small dimple into the head of the cigar. I always find that torcedors who make this little dimple -that you clean out after using your cutter- seem to have the better-constructed smokes.
He also trimmed the "flag" portion of the wrapper into a generally rectangular shape rather than the traditional "tadpole" shape. Perhaps he wants to confuse folks who are looking for that iconic "triple-cap".

I particularly liked the way he rejected the first try at wrapping.
This happened to me and after all the work of trimming the wrapper and carefully rolling it in place, I was not going to take that wrapper off.
So my very first attempt at rolling a Pir?mides has two wrappers!

Great video!

[Boss Hog]

Thank you Cbob

[Paulie]

They make it look so easy and effortless... Can only imagine what any effort I tried would look like.

Good video.