Bad cut?
So the last maybe 5-10 cigars I have had, have had a really brittle cut to them. They smoke great, burn great, taste great, and for the most part are a joy. But.... I get little bits of the cigar during the entire smoke on my lips. I have had this humidor for close to a year and have had the humidity between 65-70% always. All different smokes, young and aged ones, two different cutters. The only two things that have changed was I went to a digital hygrometer as apposed to the analog one that came with the humidor. And I unwrapped all of them from the cellophane on the advice of a cigar rep. What went wrong? I didn't change the humidifier, only the hygrometer. Would the cellophane really make that much of a difference?
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Thanks, Quinn
yeah I use a sicissor cut and it does great. No tar build up. I do blow off the end I cut and that gets rip of any little bits left behind. The sicissor is the best i ever used, i recomend every one using one.
This has been my experience also. I was also taking off the wrappers. Nothing looks better than humidor full of cigars in the nude... I think the cellophane really slows down the changes in the humi. It probably also slows down the aging but I can deal with that.
I have also been using a punch - there is one at the bottom of my Xikar lighter. Once the cigar gets a little too wet - I then cut the cap off with my guillotine. Works great for me and this has become the norm. Although I do think it's time to send the Xikar back in - to get the blades sharpened.
Tumbler: I agree that nude cigars look so much nicer, and the aroma when you open the humi is to die for. The biggest problem I had was cracked wrappers and chipped wrappers due to the cigars being shuffled around when I went to find a certain cigar. Of course that would be easily solved if I was more organized, but as it stands, my humidor is a jumble and I have to go on an archeological expedition to find some cigars.
I agree - Thats the other part of this equation. I leave the wrappers on now also...