Homemade Cigars - Anyone ever try this?

[El Sordo]

The weekend is here, so we need another cigar thread.

On the last cigar thread, someone broached the topic of making their own cigars. The idea is intriguing, but I doubt that I would personally have the patience to properly cure the tobacco.

A couple of interesting links I have stumbled upon:

1) http://www.coffinails.com/cigars.html

This site looks quite interesting. They seem to have a good cross selection of instructions, other links, tobacco seeds. I had no idea that there was much of a following for home grown tobacco, but apparently there is. I'm skeptical that my climate would provide good growing conditions, but it might be fun to try next summer.

2) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ohVnoo2DC0g

"How to make a HQ handmade cigar" These things always look so easy when a pro does them. Geeze... how hard could it be? I'm sure I'd find out if I tried. As per YouTube standard practice, there seems to be a good number of other videos on this matter.

So anyone ever tried their hand at this?

And isn't the Internet the most awesomest thing ever?

[El Sordo]

Ping-a-roo.

[El Sordo]

Think this is worth pinging the cigar club?

[ebshumidors]

Ping for later

[razorback-bert]

I would have trouble finding a fourteen year old virgin, on whose thighs to roll them.

[american_ranger]

I’m trying to grow my own tobacco this year. Darn those seeds are small and the plants are too. Not going to be easy but I am trying it.

I just started fermenting my own wine, brewing my own beer, and molding my own lead bullets. A regular little ATF I am becoming.

[martin_fierro]

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[Mr. Jazzy]

I have thought about it also. From what I understood, the plants grow quite tall and the leaves you get from each plant are not that many.

Was going to tell Mrs. Jazzy that they were a type of Sunflower plant.

[Fintan]

Mine are already homemade.

Not by me, of course, but homemade nonetheless.

 

 

[Oscar the Grouch]

The problem is not rolling them, which is a pretty straightforward affair, all reports to the contrary notwithstanding.’

The difficult and lengthy part is the aging/fermentation/maturing of the leaf. Bad tasting baccy = bad tasting cigar.

[clintonh8r]

I’ve never done it but I have some of the equipment...rolling table, blade and several presses from an old cigar factory in Miami.

[PilotDave]

I was just done in Fl. at the Sun N Fun airshow. There was a booth there from the Dominican Republic. In the booth was a guy rolling cigars. It was a man magnate! The booth was overflowing.