What's your estimate on the number of cigars that leaf will turn into? Say in a toro on average.Quote:
Originally Posted by Bruck
Man, I want to try that someday. Too many hobbies, not enough time.
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What's your estimate on the number of cigars that leaf will turn into? Say in a toro on average.Quote:
Originally Posted by Bruck
Man, I want to try that someday. Too many hobbies, not enough time.
Not as many as you'd think, really. I did a calculation the other day and found that I get on the average about 17 or 18 cigars per pound of tobacco. Now mind you, that's a broad average, as there are 3 main categories of leaf - wrapper, binder, and filler - and you use varying quantities of each. Also, rolling produces a lot of scrap, which I don't recycle into cigars.Quote:
Originally Posted by Cardinal
Also, most of the leaves in my library are more suited to pipe tobacco production, which is also where I recycle my scrap into. For pipe tobacco I usually make little bricks of pressed flake.
So to answer your question, I've only got a few pounds of cigar tobacco on hand, so approx. 50 to 60 cigars could be extruded from current stocks. But for making bricks of flake (4"x4"x0.5-0.75"), I could only guess, but probably on the order of a couple dozen.
...which is why I don't buy a lot of cigars or finished tobacco. Who am I trying to kid? Yes I do :)
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Originally Posted by jp1979
That would be 2 wineadors
but I do have an empty cooler sitting around that could be pressed into service if you keep dropping on me
Never had thought of that, of course I'm kinda slow anyways. If it works, let it and more power to you. I do have trouble with temps in my house and never have landed a good temp location here in the summer.
I have a cheap 50-count desktop at the office and a 1000-count Aristocrat "Mini" active humidified endtable humi at home.
I have 2 wineadors. 1 for CCs and 1 for NCs. I use kitty litter in both for humidification. 62% for CCs and 64% for NCs. They are in the basement which stays around 68 degrees. I also have a 20 count desktop upstairs to use as a sort of drybox to store my current smokeables in.
I use multiple wooden humidors as well as a coolidor. I plan on building a humidor into my bar one day.
Yeah, that might be argued to be flaw in the polling, since so many of us are "hybrids".Quote:
Originally Posted by projectsunfire
I think the reason is that most of us are not "traditional" cigar storers. We tend to have a lot more than your usual B&M purchasers, who more often than not have one, small, less than half-full wooden humidor.Quote:
Originally Posted by jhedrick83
After three sentences you're so tired you have to lay down to sleep, lol!Quote:
Originally Posted by Sigaar
I managed with one Edgestar 28 for about a year. It's packed full and I'm pretty deft at cigar tetrus. Alas, mostly due to the pounding you guys laid on me when we launched the board, I've been forced to creep back into my largest wooden humidor. Not such a bad problem to have.
The Edgestar is outfitted with 6 Waxingmoon drawers, made from SC and Virginia Wormy Chestnut. Nice touch on Ed's side, since he knows I'm a proud Virginian. :D All the drawers are packed, as I said, and I have four boxes of CC laying on top of the top drawer. I use Bovedas in there to save space.
The big wooden humi is a RyJ Limited Edition Contemporary Model 11, which is Mohagany and dark stained quilted maple. It's got three levels with two shelves and holds in the neighborhood of 250 sticks. I run HF beads in that guy.
So you're saying you have room? :poke:Quote:
Originally Posted by WNYTONY
I would after I run down to the post office.......Quote:
Originally Posted by TreySC