Are tordedores overworked?

conboy

Hidee-ho, this is my first post on this forum.

I have noted in the past year that many more cigars have been rolled to tightly to enjoy, or have the very tight hard spots in the middle or towards the cap that you have to smooth out at risk of damaging the wrapper.
The only brands/producers I trust any more are Punch, AJ Fernandez, Alec Bradley, Rocky Patel, and Partagas - not necessarily in that order. It seems that quality control at many brands has been neglected and declining (to get the product out to meet rising demand?) for at least the past 2 years.
I only list the ones I trust in case someone else knows something about those producers that I don't, or about the ones I didn't list. I can edit the post if it offends forum sensibilities.
I have been smoking cigars for about 7 years and have one per day, between 1600 and 1730 to go with my afternoon cocktail(s).

conboy

0patience

Humidity, construction, temperature all play a part in that.
It is possible that your storage is the culprit.
When I notice a change that seems to be affecting a lot of my cigars, I take a close look at my storage/humidors, to see if I have a problem I don't notice.

I have more problems where I live during winter, when the humidity is off the charts.

0patience

@conboy said:
Post should say, torcedores, not tordedores.
0patience, It often happens to smokes as soon as I open the package.
TX98Z28, what in blazes is DZR?!
thanks, all,
conboy

Let them rest a couple weeks and see if that helps.
Some cigars seem to be over humidified for shipping, so letting them balance out, as it were, may help that issue.

webmost

I have possibly rolled a couple thousand. That's nowhere near a typical torcedor, who prolly rolls that many every week. So call me at most a torcedorito.

In my thus slender experience, the prime reason for a tight gar is not damp, but either overfill or twist. After all, the relative humidibbidditty in a tropical clime is way stuffy unbreathable more than your gar is gonna absorb in a couple days in the mail from, at worse, an included water pillow.

Overfill prolly occurs when el capataz convinces the torcedor that el norteamericano demands the hardest gar he can get, for the same reason he demands an outrageously fat vitola. So he squeezes eight leaves in his belicoso where seven would do; or when four leaves in a corona would actually smoke better.

Twist occurs when the torcedor's ring and pinkie fingers get tired out at the end of the day, which allows the unbound loose end of the bunch to twist as the binder goes on. Just rolling a couple a day, I have to pay close attention to those two fingers, to avoid just that.

These are my guesses.

conboy

..."rolled TOO tightly"...
doesn't look like I can edit the post after all.

conboy

peter4jc

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TX98Z28

DZR conboy LoL

conboy

Post should say, torcedores, not tordedores.
0patience, It often happens to smokes as soon as I open the package.
TX98Z28, what in blazes is DZR?!
thanks, all,
conboy

conboy

Webmost,
Thank you very much!
I suspected it was just a quality assurance issue, but your insight is more than helpful.

conboy

peter4jc

@conboy said:

TX98Z28, what in blazes is DZR?!

conboy

A boy that likes to con us from time to time.