THE NEWBIE WELCOMING THREAD

jbohon

Welcome @Lakadian!

Albinfk

Welcome all. 

Lakadian

Thanks! @jbohon, and everyone who's welcomed/responded to my post. 

dirtdude

welcome all, looks like I have missed a few, too many to name, but pull up a chair and enjoy the circus

arch72

Welcome  the people are great here enjoy

TNBigfoot68

Welcome to the chilled out but house. 

CigarFan29

Hi everyone. Really glad to be here.

I'm a practicing dentist, research scientist, book and journal author, lecturer, & owner/CEO of a dental R&D and product sales company.  Keeps me busy.  My hobby passions are cars and cigars. Probably because they're inexpensive hobbies! NOT! LOL!

My son introduced me to cigars back in 2003, and I've loved them ever since. I drew up blueprints and had a 10-foot-long humidor custom made for me in Florida, and shipped to me here in So. Cal. I stained it, added features to it and built it into a 10-foot archway in my home. It's my baby.



It has beveled glass on both sides and on the top. The top three panels open for access to the humi. It has electronic humidification and an air conditioning unit at the far left that you can see. I added 10 mini computer fans up under the sides to circulate the air 24/7. And I put in LED lights on both sides up under the framework. The LEDs are on a wall switch.

This is what it looks like at night with all the room lights turned off:



Next are the views from the top with the doors open on all three sections, from right to left:







You can see the air conditioning unit on the left above.

I prefer a punch to a cutter because it just feels cleaner and better in my mouth. But that often results in a draw that's a bit snug. So my favorite cigar tool in the world is the PerfecDraw.

And yeah... in case you were wonderin'... I created this new PerfecDraw.  I made something like this years ago, and cigar friends were always reaching for it to use it, and driving me nuts to make it available.  

We dentists have some pretty cool tools, and an ideal draw is important to me when I smoke a cigar. I know that some don't care that much about the draw, but I personally don't want to settle for an acceptable or even good draw when I can have a perfect draw.

I have a very distant history in mechanical engineering and physics, and using those cool tools I have, I made a tool to fine tune the draw of any cigar I smoke. And over the years most of my cigar buddies would grab for it and use it constantly, and they drove me nuts to make something like that available.

My management team at my dental products R&D and product sales company want my 100% undivided attention because it’s a pretty big international company. But I’m “da boss”, and a guy has to have SOME fun. So this has been my fun for the last couple years bringing this into reality.

If you’re at all curious, you can see it in action at www.PerfecDraw.com.

And I guess we'll leave cars for another time. 

I hope to meet some great folks here and make some good friends.

Thanks!

Rod

silvermouse

Welcome, Rod. I like your draw poker, haven't had all that good luck with the ones on the market.

Amos_Umwhat

Wow, looks like you're well prepared.

Albinfk

Welcome Rod. Out of bounds set up you have there. I still like my 16d galvanized finish nail for a poker.

miller65rod

Welcome aboard.

If I buy a draw poker does it include a Hoyo Double Corona or maybe some of those Opus you have buried there? I ain't got no Opus's.

Nice setup  BTW.

CharlieHeis

Welcome @CigarFan29. Excellent setup. Sure looks better than my Coleman coolers.
I watched the first video on the Perfecdraw and I will be picking one of those up.

silvermouse

Just ordered one. I like the idea of it grinding/cutting away a small channel rather than pushing it aside as other draw pokers do. Leave it to a person trained as a dentist to come up with precisely made tools.

Usaf06

Think I need to bite the bullet and handle this guys noob trade 

miller65rod

Usaf06 said:

Think I need to bite the bullet and handle this guys noob trade 

I don't see any Gurkha's, RP's or La Pearla's in there. You may need to introduce him to these fine seegars. If Matthew McConaughey smokes them, then so can the Dentist. I bet he drives an MKC as well.

SOB I am needing to up my game for should.  

Do a Root Canal on his mailbox.   

miller65rod

Look at how much he is enjoying his Gurkha. Oh Snap!

dirtdude

that is an outstanding humi, hoping you will adopt me. will wait and see how the poker works out but looks like a grade A tool, welcome to the forum

CigarFan29

miller65rod said:

Usaf06 said:

Think I need to bite the bullet and handle this guys noob trade 

I don't see any Gurkha's, RP's or La Pearla's in there. You may need to introduce him to these fine seegars. If Matthew McConaughey smokes them, then so can the Dentist. I bet he drives an MKC as well.

SOB I am needing to up my game for should.  

Do a Root Canal on his mailbox.   

You guys crack me up!!  What a GREAT group.  

Yeah, you DO see some Gurkha's in there!  But 85% Cuban.  Ahhh -- from the days before I got nailed TWICE by US Customs & Border Protection. 

But no Usaf06, I do NOT drive an MKC.  I like the little ones.  This is my baby (just got 'er up to 635hp).



Rod

84CJ7

That's it, I'm tapping out!  Don't think Rod will take long to get on the Good Traders list.

Welcome Rod!

Mark

Usaf06

Oh damn thats pretty. 

johnnyB

Welcome aboard,enjoy the ride 

CigarFan29

Thanks for the warm, cuddly welcome guys!!  Much appreciated.

Rod

CigarPunk

Welcome @CigarFan29 Will try be nice but truth be told I really hate dentists. 

arch72

I agree with what @CigarPunk said I have to chose to either pay my dentists or buy cigars I really like your humi @CigarFan29

CharlieHeis

https://youtu.be/ythrdCsOFJU

CigarFan29

Ok.....ok.   Go ahead.   Have your fun.  I'll just crawl back into my dark, damp place to hide.

But don't forget the next time you sit in my chair.  I'M the one HOLDING THE NEEDLE.  AH HA!!!  

WayneC

I am glad to see a thread for newcomers on my first time visiting. My name is Wayne and I am 36 years old and have been an avid cigar smoker for over ten years. I started when I got a job at a cigar store long ago and became so in love with the whole idea that cigars are one of the last commodities around that are entirely made from hand from start to finish. The owner of the store gave me the liberty of trying one of every box he had on the shelf to expand my sale knowledge. I was hooked after that. After working with Jay Bohon the last couple of years he has encouraged me to join the forum. I look forward to many good conversations to come.

Yakster

Welcome Rod, Wayne, and any other newbies I've missed lately.

Wylaff

Welcome Wayne. Good name by the way.

jbohon

WayneC said:

I am glad to see a thread for newcomers on my first time visiting. My name is Wayne and I am 36 years old and have been an avid cigar smoker for over ten years. I started when I got a job at a cigar store long ago and became so in love with the whole idea that cigars are one of the last commodities around that are entirely made from hand from start to finish. The owner of the store gave me the liberty of trying one of every box he had on the shelf to expand my sale knowledge. I was hooked after that. After working with Jay Bohon the last couple of years he has encouraged me to join the forum. I look forward to many good conversations to come.

Welcome to the party Wayne! Don't say I didn't warn you. Who wants to send WayneC a newsletter? Pm me for the addy!