Great words of wisdom from Rick, NOT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I am sure there is someone out there stupid enough to believe him and try that so stand by and get ready to laugh! Charlie

Damn, I thought he was serious.

Hmmmm..... so it's you who inspired Tom Waits to do "What's he building" off Mule Variations. Brrrrr.... scary stuff.

Bud451, you must know that song/tune.

The above msg was a respond to MrMean

Not a very big Tom Waits fan....but a lead singer in one of the bands I worked for was an avid fan, so I am sure I heard it before, just can't place it.

Huge Tom Waits fan here. "Some say beneath his coat, there are wings"

"Shiver me timbers..........." Charlie

I usually remove the bands after lighting up and after the cigar warms a bit. I've had good success with a hair dryer set to the low fan and cool air settings. I snap on the dryer's big diffuser for bands that have gold edging. Otherwise the gold leaf separates and ruins the band. I use plain rubber cement to reattach the premium bands to the low-price, bandless seconds I keep in the top tray of the humidor. My ex-brother-in-law really likes them.

I take it off when I want to! And that's none of your business when, ORV

Tom Waits for no man.

This is an Old Tread... I posted to this a few yrs back but Maybe my Habits have changed a bit... when I pull out a cigar I selected to smoke at the time I test the Lable.. if the cigar has shrunk up do to aging and the band is loose I will remove it then.. if it seem's to be a bit over glued to the wrapper I will go ahead and smoke it until the heat from the cigar tends to loosin up the glue/thus allowing me to remove the band then... if it is still glued to much I will remove it anyways but I am like a few others on here I save the band in Groups.. Good, Very Good, Excellent, and OutStanding!!! which brings up another topic...

Laterzzzz
Hog

Wait a minute here....your not supposed to smoke the band?