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  • Rockethead26
    Rockethead26 Posts: 296 ✭✭✭✭
    This along with a little Balvenie Caribbean Cask single malt


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  • Nolagizmo
    Nolagizmo Posts: 1,914 ✭✭✭✭✭
    A really good Fuente Reserva Extra Viejo. That ironically is not that old.image
    "Come party with me in Tennessee for my birthday July we can smoke in the Smokey's."
  • miller65rod
    miller65rod Posts: 3,630 ✭✭✭✭✭
    2 hours of goodness from @kswildcat make a wish bomb. Great smoke. Another damn box cigar. Thx again Randy. Paired with Sailor Jerry Rum.
    Stub'd @Stubble ; Stogie Stand'n @danielzreyes

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  • jlmarta
    jlmarta Posts: 7,880 ✭✭✭✭✭
    La Musa MΟΥ͂ΣΑ toro by Emilio Cigars. Quite tastyimage
  • silvermouse
    silvermouse Posts: 23,477 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Principes Maduro robusto
  • silvermouse
    silvermouse Posts: 23,477 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited May 2016
    La Palina Classic lancero

    and it is mighty fine, glad I bought a box.
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  • jlmarta
    jlmarta Posts: 7,880 ✭✭✭✭✭
    A Brick House toro.....image
  • MorganGeo
    MorganGeo Posts: 2,230 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Lunch time smoke
  • Albinfk
    Albinfk Posts: 1,923 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Mid day break.image
  • miller65rod
    miller65rod Posts: 3,630 ✭✭✭✭✭
    cbuck said:
    Hoyo Epicure #2! Great! This box is part of my plan b, should all of my PSD4s disappear before my daughters wedding! Hope I don't need to go to a plan c, although I am prepared for that if need be!image
    Just smoked a tubo from a box code "10" the other day. Tasty. I need a cabinet of these. The D4's wont' last.I think your heading to plan "D". Buy more CC's. 
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  • cbuck
    cbuck Posts: 9,118 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited May 2016
    @miller65rod Got a box of Bolivar Petite Coronas coming to cover plan c! And the Monte # 4 if I have too! Do they open up with rest/aging? I've had 2 out of 5 that were truly enjoyable! Not a great ratio! I even cut one in half, and smoked it in two sittings, which did open it up some. I hate a tight draw!
  • miller65rod
    miller65rod Posts: 3,630 ✭✭✭✭✭
    The monte 4's should open up. If or when they do, they smoke great, just keep sampling every other month or so. I have the same issue with the first two RASS i have smoked out of a cab. I have always had good luck with them. Everything else I have is smoking great. 
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    "I ain't got no Opus's"
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  • silvermouse
    silvermouse Posts: 23,477 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Viaje Oro Churchill
  • jlmarta
    jlmarta Posts: 7,880 ✭✭✭✭✭
    @cbuck and @miller65rod, do either of you use a poker to open up the draw?  My home-made one works well on everything I've ever used it on but I've not had that problem with any of my CC's. 

    IMO, commercially available draw pokers are too large in diameter and could possibly cause a split. That's why I won't use one of those. Just passing it along, FYI....   B)
  • cbuck
    cbuck Posts: 9,118 ✭✭✭✭✭
    jlmarta said:
    @cbuck and @miller65rod, do either of you use a poker to open up the draw?  My home-made one works well on everything I've ever used it on but I've not had that problem with any of my CC's. 

    IMO, commercially available draw pokers are too large in diameter and could possibly cause a split. That's why I won't use one of those. Just passing it along, FYI....   B)

    I do @jlmarta , but sometimes not so straight, and didn't want to waste this cigar by putting a hole in the wrapper! My eyesight ain't what it used to be!
  • miller65rod
    miller65rod Posts: 3,630 ✭✭✭✭✭
    jlmarta said:
    @cbuck and @miller65rod, do either of you use a poker to open up the draw?  My home-made one works well on everything I've ever used it on but I've not had that problem with any of my CC's. 

    IMO, commercially available draw pokers are too large in diameter and could possibly cause a split. That's why I won't use one of those. Just passing it along, FYI....   B)
    I have a draw poker but as you said on smaller ring gauge cigars it can do some damage. I use a nail also sometimes when needed.
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    "I ain't got no Opus's"
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  • jlmarta
    jlmarta Posts: 7,880 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I use a piece of the smallest diameter coat hanger wire I could find. In addition, the secret (IMO) to making it work properly is to cut, file, or grind the end of the poker to a blunt, square-cut end rather than a pointed end. 

    Old-time carpenters and woodworkers know about this method. The square-cut end produces a cutting edge that will cut its way through the material whereas a pointed end acts as a wedge and forces material away from it just as a wedge is used in splitting firewood. 

    This is why you'll sometimes see an old time carpenter stand a nail upside down and tap the pointed end with his hammer to blunt the nail. He uses this trick to avoid splitting any fine wood that's otherwise prone to being split by the nail. 

    It seems counterintuitive, but it works..... 
  • CharlieHeis
    CharlieHeis Posts: 8,969 ✭✭✭✭✭
    jlmarta said:
    I use a piece of the smallest diameter coat hanger wire I could find. In addition, the secret (IMO) to making it work properly is to cut, file, or grind the end of the poker to a blunt, square-cut end rather than a pointed end. 

    Old-time carpenters and woodworkers know about this method. The square-cut end produces a cutting edge that will cut its way through the material whereas a pointed end acts as a wedge and forces material away from it just as a wedge is used in splitting firewood. 

    This is why you'll sometimes see an old time carpenter stand a nail upside down and tap the pointed end with his hammer to blunt the nail. He uses this trick to avoid splitting any fine wood that's otherwise prone to being split by the nail. 

    It seems counterintuitive, but it works..... 
    I've read that also. I have been thinking about snipping off the sharp end of my draw tool. 
  • cbuck
    cbuck Posts: 9,118 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Casa Cuba! Always great!image
  • silvermouse
    silvermouse Posts: 23,477 ✭✭✭✭✭
    this afternoon a PDr 1878 Capa Madura
  • Yakster
    Yakster Posts: 31,366 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited May 2016
    La Palina Red Label while waiting for the kid.  I decided to get out the table and chair I keep in the back of my car to sit in the shade and enjoy the cigar and catch up on the forum while waiting.  It beats stinking up the car, but I had to get a heavy fender washer for my improvised ashtray when I got home because the wind kept blowing it around the table.  The "ashtray" is an old metal 3 Oaks Syrian pipe tobacco tin with a snap on plastic lid so I can put the lid on it when I'm done to contain the ash and butt and keep from spilling or sinking up the car.

    I was a bit worried about public reaction to my smoking, the only reaction I got was someone getting off work walking up to me to see what was up.  He swung back by in his car to talk a bit more and tell me his dad just got back from Cuba with a nice haul of cigars so I guess it was a positive reaction.  :)

    Since I have an hour to kill, it seems to be a good use of the time, I'm not wasting gas and time driving back and forth and I'm not out shopping and spending money on something I don't need.  It'd probably be better if I brought along a dog and walked the dog at the park during the wait, I did that once, but not sure I want to smoke a cigar and walk the dog at this park at the same time.


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  • cbuck
    cbuck Posts: 9,118 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Hey @jlmarta ! Another Putrid Swamp Donkey # 4! Great smoke!image
  • jlmarta
    jlmarta Posts: 7,880 ✭✭✭✭✭
    cbuck said:
    Hey @jlmarta ! Another Putrid Swamp Donkey # 4! Great smoke!image
    Yeah, I've still got a few left. They're pretty good. I actually believe I prefer the Hoyo Epicure #2 over the PSD4, though. 
  • silvermouse
    silvermouse Posts: 23,477 ✭✭✭✭✭
    a Flor de Selva robusto, from this month's cotm sampler, after work, grapefruit seltzer accompaniment.
  • cbuck
    cbuck Posts: 9,118 ✭✭✭✭✭
    jlmarta said:
    cbuck said:
    Hey @jlmarta ! Another Putrid Swamp Donkey # 4! Great smoke!image
    Yeah, I've still got a few left. They're pretty good. I actually believe I prefer the Hoyo Epicure #2 over the PSD4, though. 
    Like this one? HDM Epicure 2!
    I need to smoke more of each to
    decide which I like better!image
  • cbuck
    cbuck Posts: 9,118 ✭✭✭✭✭
    A. Flores Capa Habano! Nice smoke!image
  • jlmarta
    jlmarta Posts: 7,880 ✭✭✭✭✭
    cbuck said:
    jlmarta said:
    cbuck said:
    Hey @jlmarta ! Another Putrid Swamp Donkey # 4! Great smoke!image
    Yeah, I've still got a few left. They're pretty good. I actually believe I prefer the Hoyo Epicure #2 over the PSD4, though. 
    Like this one? HDM Epicure 2!
    I need to smoke more of each to
    decide which I like better!image
    Yep. That's the one. Dem's tasty little rascals....  :D
  • silvermouse
    silvermouse Posts: 23,477 ✭✭✭✭✭
    after-work smoke, a CroMagnon; a touch on the strong side....

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