Roll your own ciggs

[northcountry]

I bring the baccy to case (spray water on dried leafs), then put in a press box for a day. Take the brick and slice with a cleaver. With the learned techniques works well and can get almost a shag cut. Tried all the ways to shred and the cleaver is best. Keep it sharp and hollow ground one side.

[Azframer]

Yea I have tried to quit smoking several times but smoking is still cheaper than Lawyer fees!

[catburgler]

I used to grow my own tobacco a few years ago and i found the easiest way to shred it once it was cured was using the noodle attachment on a pasta maker, just run it through that a couple of times and ya good to go, funny thing is Tobacco was about the only plant that never used to die on me, i can kill cactus and them things live for ever on nothing ! the other thing is im from the UK and our climate isn't really suited to growing tobacco but my plants seemed to love it. Very strange....

[snookfinken]

Never been to keen on smoking (I had asthma as a younger kid and my eyes would water) but i do like the chewing tobacco on occasion. Redman is my favorite but beechnut and southern pride are good too as well as copenhagen long cut and skoal mint. Started dippin/chewing when i was 15 and for the most part have quit except for the occasional. Would love to grow my own thought, would be pretty cool

[goose eye]

get you some tinfoil lay a cured leaf on itwith a brush brush some molasses on it. lay another leaf
on that an so on till you get em bout2 inch deep. put til foil on that an press emfor bout a month.
take weight off an cut into plugs an put in a glass jug to keep bugs off an youngins out of.

so im tole

[snookfinken]

thats sounds pretty good, bet it would really have some flavor too. Maybe i'll give it a shot.

[coctailgirl]

My grandpa always used to roll his ciggs until he had an heart attack and quited lol.
My ex always rolled them too, however he was a man with good appetite he always added an aroma to the tobacco. I recall smoking them with a nice cup of tea. It was a real joy.
I think the key element to good ciggs rolling is the mixture of tobacco. I don't know about abroad but in Turkey you would find a very large variety of tobacco which you can mix until you're satisfied with the taste. If I lived abroad I'd go mix classic Davidoff like tobacco with Captain Black and have a cup of tea mixed with kahlua. Yeah, now that's how you have a good cigg.