Summary: A cigar is made out of filler (the tobacco), binder, and a wrapper. See what materials go into making a cigar in this free video on how cigars are made.
Michael DeBoisbriand is the lead cigar roller for Two Guys Smoke Shop - one of the largest cigar retailers in the country. Cigar rolling is in his blood as his great grandmother got...read more
"In this clip we're going to discuss the general components of a cigar as far as what it's made out of. OK and this is the seco tobacco. This is what you use in the filler. This is ojero, which is also a filler component. This is your binder, which is used to hold the filler together. And you have your wrapper. Now wrapper is suppose to be kept moist so it actually has its stretch and its flex as you're rolling. As you can see this this wrapper is in a towel. And the reason I use a towel is so it holds the moisture in. Now every so often when you're rolling you want to keep this moist so you get yourself a spray bottle, just a basic old spray bottle and you give it a couple of sprays. And what that does it keeps water into the towel so it actually keeps the tobacco moist so it has its stretch and its flex. So you've got to keep that moist and when you get the wrapper in it comes in these, which they call hands. As you can see it's the whole leaf. It's not just part of a leaf."
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