Cigar Construction

Fourtotheflush · July 2010

So a cigar is made up of 1 wrapper, typically 1 binder, and filler.
How many leaves are in that filler? Does anyone know?
I want to know because ive seen in a couple places that it states the the Camacho PE has 1 leaf of PE tobacco rolled into it.

lilwing88 · July 2010

I don't know for sure, but based on the videos I've seen of factories rolling their cigars it looks like they grab 2 or 3 decent sized leaves and kind of bunch them up. But I guess it also depends on the vitola. Bigger gauges probably use more leaves than smaller ones.

sightunseen · July 2010

http://tobacconistuniversity.org/tobacco-college/apm-rolling2.asp

The first section about bunching notes about 3-5 leaves are used as filler. Of course that's just an average. The LP No. 9 uses 7 different leaves for filler.

kuzi16 · July 2010

sightunseen:
http://tobacconistuniversity.org/tobacco-college/apm-rolling2.asp

The first section about bunching notes about 3-5 leaves are used as filler. Of course that's just an average. The LP No. 9 uses 7 different leaves for filler.

it also depends on how the leaves they select are cut.

jpclotfelter · July 2010

I believe that the Camacho PE filler is about 30-35% Cuban leaf. It is a damn fine cigar.

sightunseen · July 2010

jpclotfelter:
I believe that the Camacho PE filler is about 30-35% Cuban leaf. It is a damn fine cigar.

I've also heard that it contains a single PE Cuban leaf, so if the bunch had three leaves, then the percentage is accurate. It also makes sense because the draw on the PE is pretty loose and it's a pretty quick smoke.

Alex Svenson · July 2010

A lot of factors. 3 to 5 is the rule but once i did an experiment to see how many different countries of tobacco I could cram in one cigar. It ended up being 12 different tobacco varieties (including the leaf used for the wrapper and binder) from a total of 9 countries. The cigar ended up being a 6 x 64 just to make it all fit LOL

Krieg · July 2010

Alex Svenson:
A lot of factors. 3 to 5 is the rule but once i did an experiment to see how many different countries of tobacco I could cram in one cigar. It ended up being 12 different tobacco varieties (including the leaf used for the wrapper and binder) from a total of 9 countries. The cigar ended up being a 6 x 64 just to make it all fit LOL

so...how did it taste??

ENFIDL · July 2010

Krieg:
Alex Svenson:
A lot of factors. 3 to 5 is the rule but once i did an experiment to see how many different countries of tobacco I could cram in one cigar. It ended up being 12 different tobacco varieties (including the leaf used for the wrapper and binder) from a total of 9 countries. The cigar ended up being a 6 x 64 just to make it all fit LOL
so...how did it taste??

Would like to know this as well...........

ENFIDL · July 2010

double post ftw

ironhorse · July 2010

haha, these are the perks of the job I guess. making a 12 leaf cigar just for the hell of it. That must have looked like a cannon!

wwhwang · July 2010

Alex Svenson:
A lot of factors. 3 to 5 is the rule but once i did an experiment to see how many different countries of tobacco I could cram in one cigar. It ended up being 12 different tobacco varieties (including the leaf used for the wrapper and binder) from a total of 9 countries. The cigar ended up being a 6 x 64 just to make it all fit LOL

Can I get one of those on the DD? lol

jlmarta · July 2010

I would think, too, that it would depend on the blend being made. I can visualize one leaf of this kind of tobacco and a leaf of that king, etc. until the desired blend was accomplished.

Kuzi can probably straighten us out on this point.

Marty

kuzi16 · July 2010

not only is it about flavor of one leaf vs flavor of another, it is also about combustion. Ligero leaves are thicker and therefor burn slower than lower a priming leaf would. so while blending that has to be taken into account as well. this thickness also comes into play when bunching the cigar. if you dont bunch it correctly it wont burn well.

jlmarta · July 2010

See? I knew Kuzi could inform us well. The guy's a walking encyclopedia.

Thanks, Kuzi.

Marty

Fourtotheflush · July 2010

jlmarta:
See? I knew Kuzi could inform us well. The guy's a walking encyclopedia.

Thanks, Kuzi.

Marty

But hes only helpful before or after Wopner.

kuzi16 · July 2010

drive slow in the driveway.

Fourtotheflush · July 2010

kuzi16:
drive slow in the driveway.

I keed I keed

That took a while, Ive been waiting for that one....

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