Dry-Brittle Wrapper
jw517
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I won/bought a 5er of Gurkha Sedution last week and just had to try one! All my cigars come from cigarbid now and to be honest I have not unwrapped many paks at all. They are all sleeping in my cigar fridge at about 72RH average. I punched the cap and it cracked and about fell off. As I was smoking it,it cracked in about 4 places. By the time I was done it looked like a rag. It was a good cigar I thought but with all the problems it was not a good experience. I had this trouble with a 20 pak of HC Red Corojo too on the first smoke. Are they (cigarbid ) not keeping these things in good condition? Is this a fluke?
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Its a ghurka, thats what they do"I drink a great deal. I sleep a little, and I smoke cigar after cigar. That is why I am in two-hundred-percent form."
-- Winston Churchill
"LET'S GO FRANCIS" Peter5 -
Ha,ha. I do have others that are fine so that's not it.0
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I was going to call cigarbid and tell them my findings but I don't want to rock the boat if this is a isolated incident.0
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jw517 said:I was going to call cigarbid and tell them my findings but I don't want to rock the boat if this is a isolated incident.
keep smoking Gurkha's, it will not be an isolated incident."If you do not read the newspapers you're uninformed. If you do read the newspapers, you're misinformed." -- Mark Twain3 -
I would not want to hand a friend this cigar then. Maybe my son-in-law!2
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Fully 3 out of 5 ghurkas will either fall apart or blow your lips off. They don't have their own factory. So they contract other factories to roll their tobacco, and as a direct result quality control is nearly non existent.
There are many funny threads on this subject if you dig around you can find them.
The ones that smoke decent are fine cigars.
But you really do take your life in your hands when you light one of those bombs up.
My friend @WaterNerd Allan
Had his lips blown off last year.....he looked pretty funny until he found a set of donor lips.The higher.......the fewer. ( Alexander Rozhenko)
What you can't forgive......you will become.6 -
One would think you could properly humidify even a piece of crap if that was your business.0
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What is the ambient humidity and temp of the smoking environment? Could be a combination of problems. Maybe one part of it is an extreme humidity swing between resting in your humidor and light-up, and could be cracking your wrappers. Try setting them out where you will be smoking for an hour before light-up. Worth a try. Or dry boxing.0
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Of the three sticks I've thrown into the woodstove all have them have been Gurkhas... and I'm a cheap as s who won't throw out anything I've spent money no matter how bad it tastes.1
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This is a good point. I never had any problem out of the original Park Avenue, or the Black Ops. A year or so back I had a Seduction that was very good, but the next one Gurkha'd on me.Sketch6995 said:The ones that smoke decent are fine cigars.
"If you do not read the newspapers you're uninformed. If you do read the newspapers, you're misinformed." -- Mark Twain3 -
The Seduction used to be a favorite of mine. Until they started selling them through online. Quality went down fast.2
