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Summary: Cigars are made by bunching up whole tobacco leaves. Learn how to bunch tobacco leaves to make 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 be discussing how to bunch a cigar. What you're going to basically do is you take your seco. Like I said, you're going to see that there's a lot more seco in this than there is ligero. You're just going to kind of quarter it, if it's a good sized leaf. You're just going to stack up some seco in your hand. Basically get a feel, 'cause you're going to try to gage this also as far as how thick you want your cigar. Now, we're going to take some ligero, and as I said it's a very thick leaf so there's not going to be nearly as much as this in there. We'll bring it up to the mold, we'll get a better idea as far as how wide or how long we want this. When we get it where we want it, we just tear off the excess; then we get our bunch."
eHow Article: Bunching Tobacco Leaves to Make a Cigar
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