raffie wrote:Buying Diesel, Victor Sinclair and HC mainly.
Now and then if I can get a good price I get the V660.
Most are 50-58 ring.
I have a electronic humidity gauge and stays in the green. Got Caliber 4R IV R Gold Bezel Round Digital Hygrometer
Diesels are solid. They're generally well-made and have a good draw, as the manufacturer, AJ Fernandez, uses draw-test machines and rejects cigars with bad draws so you never get them. Diesels also generally burn well, and aren't full of stems. Flavor is pretty good too, not super complex but fairly powerful and full-bodied and enjoyable.
HC and Victor Sinclair are cigars that guys start with, then move on from. They're not very good.
Lately my favorite "$2-ish yet good quality" stick is Erik Espinoza's "601 Steel". They can be had either in a Spanish Cedar box (great for helping to regulate humidity in your humidor!) or in a logo'd airtight-sealing plastic jar (very nice-looking and functional!), both holding 20, from what we code-name "The Very Well-Known Cigar Shop"'s discount website, which we code-name "The Scary Site", for amazingly cheap sometimes with free shipping included, then you can apply one of the shop's standing 17% or 20% off codes to drop the price even further still, resulting in $2/each or just a bit more. They're only up on "The Scary Site" some days, and not others.
They're really good cigars, very tasty with a good set of flavors, great draw (Erik's clearly using a draw-test machine too), even burn, med-full strength, very enjoyable.
I have a dozen Caliber IV units. Four are dead-on (no offset needs to be applied), the rest are plus or minus 1 to 3 points to make them read true. One however requires -5 points to read true. Your 4R might be such a rare unit. You might be seeing "68%" on its screen but it's really 73% in there. Calibrate the unit, if the 4R allows it (I don't know offhand if it does). If it doesn't allow it (does not let you set a display offset number of points), you can at least observe how high or low it is, then you know to mentally add or subtract that many points whenever you read the display.
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