RYO Cigarettes Anyone?

[Bruck]

Mrs. Bruck usually has an RYO cigarette with me in the evenings as I indulge in a cigar or pipe, and I'll have one once in a blue moon. She likes the Stokkybes offerings, but I finally made a homebrew blend that she likes -(approx.) 50% VA, 30% burley, and 20% Turkish Imzur. I use a pasta machine for a shredder. Anyone else do any cigarette blending?

[EJGarnut]

I used to make a blend back before I quit cigs. I would usually mix burley & some perique. Weird combo but I liked it. Bought from D&R for many years

Stokkybes is good quality. My wife used to get their Danish blend all the time

[Bruck]

Interesting blend! Mrs. Bruck likes the Stokkybe's Amsterdam. Personally they all taste about the same to me.

[KungFumeta]

I've been smoking RYO for the best part of 7 years, and now i find it difficult to stand the weak, dry taste of regular cigarettes.
I started off with Camel and I'm now smoking Marlboro, between 3-7 cigarettes a day. Consumption is declining as pipes, cigars, snuff and snus make a bigger and bigger contribution to my nicotine intake.
No blending of my own though. I'm a little late to the part but I plan on planting several tobacco plants (burley and virginia) and trying to make cigars, pipe tobacco and cigarettes out of it. I'd make some nice snuff if I got hold of some Rustica seeds...

[rodwha]

After smoking Marlboro and Camel for so long I moved to American Spirits, but soon lost my job and found you could buy the loose tobacco and cigarette tubes for about the same price and so I did that after finding that rolling cigarrettes with loose filters was a little more difficult than I figured.

[Madbricky]

I used the electric machine and tubes with two blends. One was D&R Ramback Balkan with Newminster 702 30% and D&R Rimboche mixed evenly with MacBaren #1Virginia dryed and rubbed out further to thin ribbons. I also would roll out D&R Picayune for a real flavor and nic bomb. They were all good with Perique!

[Tgs679]

GH&Co. Kendal Gold.

[Aguineapig]

I used the electric machine and tubes with two blends. One was D&R Ramback Balkan with Newminster 702 30% and D&R Rimboche mixed evenly with MacBaren #1Virginia dryed and rubbed out further to thin ribbons. I also would roll out D&R Picayune for a real flavor and nic bomb. They were all good with Perique!

I liked the Picayune you sent rolled unfiltered, stuck in a cigarette holder. It was about the right serving size of picayune for this light weight to handle (still non-inhale, I never developed that habit).

[Herf N Turf]

I used to be heavily into RYO. I experimented with many machines, tubes and of course, tobaccos and blending. I finally ended up with a Premier Supermatic, which I still believe is the best all-round machine out there. I was extremely interested in the purported ease of the electrics, but never found one that seemed like it would stand up to the long-term rigors of habitual use. I found that, once I got my skillz down solid, I could produce a pack of cigs in about 5 minutes. Not bad.

For tobacco, I blended two D&R offerings, specifically, Windsail Platinum (golden flue cure) and a Euro belnd called Ryback (fire cure) along with a little Layne 1Q. This rendered an exceptionally smooth, full-flavored smoke with great finish and aroma. The biggest reason I RMO was flavor and I always maintained that if I were forced to smoke only commercial cigarettes, I'd quit the same day.

After much experimentation, I found Gambler Full Flavor tubes to be the most neutral, with no paper, chemical, or after taste. They're among the cheapest too.

I finally got sick and tired enough of the holes in my cloths, stink in my house and car, that I gave it up and have been a vaper for the past two years and won't be looking back.