Dean0821
Tuesday, December 13, 2016 9:43:23 AM
Montecristo Platniums I love those cigars but the last 15 i bought 13 of them ended up tunneling burn, really frustrating![ram27bat]
dstieger
Tuesday, December 13, 2016 10:19:38 AM
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
Tuesday, December 13, 2016 11:22:04 AM

-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

dstieger wrote:

Not to be a snippy bityotch but in the case of tunneling isn't this backwards?

dstieger
Tuesday, December 13, 2016 11:41:16 AM

Not to be a snippy bityotch but in the case of tunneling isn't this backwards?

cameroon wrote:

absolutely....I'll fix it....completely backazzwards...ty

ZRX1200
Tuesday, December 13, 2016 12:38:17 PM
Try dry boxing one for two days and see how it burns.
Dean0821
Friday, December 16, 2016 4:39:18 PM
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
Tuesday, December 20, 2016 12:01:01 AM

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.

Dean0821 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.

Whistlebritches
Tuesday, December 20, 2016 7:50:53 AM

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.

knokmdwn 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.

dharbolt
Tuesday, December 20, 2016 8:46:15 AM

^^^^^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.

Whistlebritches wrote:

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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