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0patience Offline
#1 Posted: Fri, Sep 5 2003, 5:05 PM EST
Joined: 07-20-2003
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When you get a cigar that is tight and you almost pull a lung trying to draw from it, how do you take care of it?
Do you put it out and toss it?
Do put it in the drawer and hope it gets better?
Lately, I've had a couple cigars that no matter what I tried, I couldn't get them to draw very well.
I tried using a poker to free them up a little, but no help at all.
I thought maybe someone had a cure for this?
Thanks all.
Slimboli Offline
#2 Posted: Fri, Sep 5 2003, 5:18 PM EST
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If you've tried everything you can to fix it and it still won't draw ...

... it's just a bad cigar.
Unplugged Offline
#3 Posted: Fri, Sep 5 2003, 5:44 PM EST
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You could try the various cigar pokers on the market (I've never used them). Typically I toss the really tight ones (it's too easy for me to accidentally inhale and then I'm up half the night sick (yes I'm a wuss)). If they're all coming from your box, you'll want to make sure you're not overhumidifying, as this can kill your draw. Sometimes though, if you feel the cigar, you can find a plug and roll it between your fingers to loosen it.
ikonoklast7 Offline
#4 Posted: Fri, Sep 5 2003, 6:46 PM EST
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If it's a little plugged, what I do is take the cigar between my thumb and forefinger and firmly roll it in my fingers to massage out the plug.

I had a tight San Cristobal ISOM and this method helped it out.

If it's tight all around, then I guess it's just plain bad.
grond Offline
#5 Posted: Fri, Sep 5 2003, 6:53 PM EST
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I handle this differently than most others here. First I snip the end and take a test draw without lighting the cigar. If it is too tight a draw, I insert the cigar back in the cellophane and put it in my "dry" humidor. This is one that I keep the humidity at 60% and use it for cigars that are tight. I leave it in there for about 3 - 5 days and then "test" the draw again. If it is still tight after a week, the cigar is tossed. (I've tossed very few.) Most open up nicely with a little less humidity.

Just my two bits.

Grond
godfather1453406 Offline
#6 Posted: Sat, Sep 6 2003, 12:42 AM EST
Joined: 06-11-2003
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I have a habit of quarter turning the cigar after every puff and i massage it between my fingers and most of the time it comes loose.
mrsanmrfox Offline
#7 Posted: Sat, Sep 6 2003, 7:49 AM EST
Joined: 01-10-2003
Posts: 133
My method is crude to say the least. back when the Drew Estate Roots were being sold with a tight draw I used a drill bit (without the drill, unless you feel you must use one :) I just twist it into the back of the cigar and pull without twisting back out. The twisting method going in helps to keep the tobacco from bunching up while inserting the drill bit and then when you pull it out without twisting it helps to pull any tobacco that has wrapped itself around the drillbit out and has worked for me. Like I said its crude and doesnt cost as much as a poker. Just make sure its a clean drill bit before doing this. :)
TubeDoc Offline
#8 Posted: Sun, Sep 7 2003, 5:25 AM EST
Joined: 05-05-2002
Posts: 69
I was going to ask if it was a Drew Estate product. I had to throw away a whole box of Roots. Never again.
Sometimes I run into a plugged cigar. I just toss it. You can not ENJOY a cigar when you have to fight to draw off of it or keep relighting it. If the cigar happens to be a $$$$$, then I am really pissed. But, that happens (but why does it happen to me...)
Never used a draw poker. Never purchased one. I have tried rods poked down the center, but that does not seem to work.
If the cigar did draw at one time, then it might be the way I am hold the cigar, so rotating the cigar does seem to help.
Also, I have tried to keep my cigars at 65 - 67% humidity. That seems to help them burn better than the rigid 70%.
my $0.02
Doc
BMW Offline
#9 Posted: Sun, Sep 7 2003, 6:39 AM EST
Joined: 10-21-2000
Posts: 3,010
I put them in my bench vise and squeeze untill they go "pop". Then I smoke them sideways.LOL

Barry
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