CSI Cigar

[AF MAN]

Originally Posted by SeanGAR

http://cigars.about.com/library/weekly/aa040801a.htm

Sorry, I used the wrong term. The LGCR5 was "entubar" rolled (see link), the Piranha was "booked". Entubar: each leave is folded separately from one another than bundled together. When they are dissected each folded leaf comes apart separately. I think you can see perhaps better in the picture below. Each filler leaf was folded that way, and then they were bunched together. So after you take off the binder, the leaves separate one from another easily. Supposedly a good way to roll a cigar, and with my experience with perfect draws with the LGCR5s, I'd say it works.

A mold is used to shape and press the tobacco into a tube before the binder is put on, but that is separate from how the leaves are put together. Some cigars are pressed after rolling to give groovy shapes (trilogy, Padron 1964s), but this is a separate operation from box pressing, which is never that extreme.

I could be wrong....its not like I study cigars, but I will stay at a Holiday Inn next week...

Entubar leaf.

You Da Man Prof!!!

[pinokio]

Hi guys, as promised I tried disecting a Beldina, a cigar I´ve already written about here. Bear in mind this cigar had a drowning accident that is why the wrapper is so broken up, after lying in the sun for 2 days. (The objective was disecting it) The filler is hole and still smelling very nice. Seems to me as a very acceptable construction.

Regards

[pinoyman]

Originally Posted by pinokio

Thanks for the pics SeanGAR, nicely done. I suffered a little accident the other day with my some new cigars I had put into a Tupperware for 2 or 3 days with a smaller Tupper inside with some distilled water so they would´nt suffer the shock of humi difference (older gorilla advice). My wife knocked it over by accident not knowing about the water. After the 3 days when I opened the Tupper completely ruined. Decided to disect. Will post some pics.

Regards

Amigo I wonder if i can use Porto instead of water?

Seangar great pics! very informative, like always...


Salud!

[pinokio]

Originally Posted by pinoyman

Amigo I wonder if i can use Porto instead of water?

Seangar great pics! very informative, like always...


Salud!

Sure!! Can you swim ??

Take Care

[rumballs]

somehow i missed this thread - neat pictures.
just posting in case anyone else missed it

[linusvanpelt]

Originally Posted by SeanGAR

I had 4 cigars that didn't look smokeable for one reason or another do I decided to dissect them. I thought the results were interesting enough to share.

- La Gloria Cubana Serie R No. 5
- JR Cuban Alt Bolivar Corona
- CAO Brazilia Piranha
- Professor Sila Connecticut Toro

From the pics, they all originally looked to be in smokeable condition. What flaws caused you to single these out??

[catfishm2]

Great pics Sean. Very informative. I learn something new everytime I come here.