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Bruck
02-18-2015, 06:54 PM
... is in the press right now, getting ready to take it out. It contains:

Peach/vanilla topped cavendish, cigar scrap cavendish, a VA blend that Tobias Lutz topped with some sweet stuff, VA red, VA lemon, Imzir, MD red tips, KY burley, latakia, perique. Topped with a peach/vanilla that Madbricky concocted, dark rum, and DW.

Will post some pics momentarily.
Bruck
02-18-2015, 08:19 PM
As promised, some tobacco pron:

http://i.imgur.com/SW5mCjo.jpg

Fresh out of the hydraulic press (750 psi est.).

And it's now resting under light pressure (2 25# plates), along with a couple other batches of flake that I've pressed over the past couple weeks. I keep the flakes under some weight till they solidify and dry out a bit, which is usually about 2 weeks.

http://i.imgur.com/vmDq6bv.jpg
Branzig
02-18-2015, 10:41 PM
Very cool!

I wish I was as patient as you and Tobias. I don't know if I could do this stuff :chuncky:
GWBowman
02-21-2015, 03:14 PM
Has anyone here sliced their flake or does everyone just crumble?
Tobias Lutz
02-21-2015, 03:22 PM
Has anyone here sliced their flake or does everyone just crumble?

http://i495.photobucket.com/albums/rr317/lutztb/DSC04175.jpg

This was pressed using 4" c-clamps, and it held up fine. The stuff Bruce makes with a hydraulic press is just like opening a tin of Dunhill or Peterson flake.
GWBowman
02-21-2015, 04:02 PM
Tobias Lutz did you just use a kitchen knife or how did you slice it?
Tobias Lutz
02-21-2015, 04:54 PM
Tobias Lutz did you just use a kitchen knife or how did you slice it?

yup, a 10" Global chef's knife
Bruck
02-21-2015, 07:39 PM
Has anyone here sliced their flake or does everyone just crumble?

I always slice mine, then fold and break it up a little when loading the pipe. I use one of these:

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41HzD7i05cL._SY450_.jpg

http://www.amazon.com/Alaskan-Ulu-Legendary-Knife-Arctic/dp/B0006PILUK/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1424565523&sr=8-1&keywords=ulu+knife
spyder
03-07-2015, 02:20 PM
So Bruce ... that brick should be dried out about now, correct? And ready for the guillotine.
Bruck
03-07-2015, 04:54 PM
So Bruce ... that brick should be dried out about now, correct? And ready for the guillotine.

It's been sliced. Tried some a few day ago, still a bit damp. I dry the slices gradually in the jar - lid off for a day, lid on for a day, etc., till it feels like about the right moisture level.