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tunneling!!!!!!!!! monte cristo
Dean0821 Offline
#1 Posted:
Joined: 01-28-2014
Posts: 7
Montecristo Platniums I love those cigars but the last 15 i bought 13 of them ended up tunneling burn, really frustrating!ram27bat
dstieger Offline
#2 Posted:
Joined: 06-22-2007
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I have a few thoughts....none of them helpful, I'm sure

- Altadis cigars are rarely worth the cost

-Monte Plats that I had many years ago were ok....never bad...never great....smoke better cigars

Tunneling has a few likely causes:
-uneven bunching - poor rolling; probably not the case...while NC Monte's aren't great, by any means, they're made fairly consistently
-uneven lighting...new lighter? less attention to even light lately?
-wrapper wetter than binder wetter than filler -- this can be caused by a number of things, not least of which is differences between your humi RH and ambient smoking RH
-smoking too fast....one of the more likely causes, IMO
cameroon Offline
#3 Posted:
Joined: 04-06-2014
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dstieger wrote:

-wrapper drier than binder drier than filler -- this can be caused by a number of things, not least of which is differences between your humi RH and ambient smoking RH


Not to be a snippy bityotch but in the case of tunneling isn't this backwards?
dstieger Offline
#4 Posted:
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cameroon wrote:
Not to be a snippy bityotch but in the case of tunneling isn't this backwards?


absolutely....I'll fix it....completely backazzwards...ty
ZRX1200 Offline
#5 Posted:
Joined: 07-08-2007
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Try dry boxing one for two days and see how it burns.
Dean0821 Offline
#6 Posted:
Joined: 01-28-2014
Posts: 7
yes , i have dry boxing the last few and it helped some, i light cigars 10 times a week so i think i am lighting them correctly and not smoking them to fast,after they start tunneling i cut about the first third off and has burned better, i think the outer wrapper is to wet. im going to dry box the rest for a few weeks.
knokmdwn Offline
#7 Posted:
Joined: 04-13-2008
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Dean0821 wrote:
yes , i have dry boxing the last few and it helped some, i light cigars 10 times a week so i think i am lighting them correctly and not smoking them to fast,after they start tunneling i cut about the first third off and has burned better, i think the outer wrapper is to wet. im going to dry box the rest for a few weeks.



Run your humi down at 59-61 consistantly. They won't tunnel, you won't have to dry box, no bugs, no mold and they will smoke much much better.
Whistlebritches Offline
#8 Posted:
Joined: 04-23-2006
Posts: 22,127
knokmdwn wrote:
Run your humi down at 59-61 consistantly. They won't tunnel, you won't have to dry box, no bugs, no mold and they will smoke much much better.



^^^^^What Ray said.I try to never let mine get over 63 and try to keep at 58-62.In West Texas over humidification is a rare problem.
dharbolt Offline
#9 Posted:
Joined: 08-03-2013
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Whistlebritches wrote:
^^^^^What Ray said.I try to never let mine get over 63 and try to keep at 58-62.In West Texas over humidification is a rare problem.


Dean I think if you ask around almost everyone here prefers their humidity to be at our below 65% anything more and nothing burns correctly
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