PigFish

Cigars don’t kill people. People kill people…. (Read with levity)

Had known Reid for many years as well from the same forum as Keith. Smoked with him on a few occasions living on opposite coasts. True gentleman. While we had lost touch after the forum that Keith spoke of went offline, I alway figured we would come together somewhere in the cigar world once more. I had noticed him as a seller on BR, so I knew he was still around. Sad news...

Better to become an influencer. No skills, little knowledge, and not much brains can take you pretty far. You just need a camera and convince the thinking world that the last sentence is true! Buy a class A motor-home, a new Rolex, put a humidor in the motor home and drive around and review cigars and tobacco stores and video your adventures. See if you can get flying j or pilot to pick you up as a sponsor.

My God… series 1975. Flown many any hour with this rig. When the best RC transmitters were made in the USA. In California no less! I wonder if it still works? … I was not yet smoking cigars in 1975. Slope soaring and a good cigar. I am liking this idea more and more!!!

This thread has done me in. I am now about to scrounge for my 'vintage' RC gear, and found an old design that I made as a kid and started CAD work to create my scratch build. I am 'f'd'.... -lol

… Raise your hand if you can tell coke from Pepsi? Great, now you have the same skill set as most cigar smokers. Note for future. Good cigars don’t taste anything like Coke or Pepsi… I happen to believe the most consistent Cuban cigar is the Partagas Chicos. I happen to like their taste. I know that they are Partagas Chicos due to my uncanny ability to take note of how they look, taste and observe the box that they come out of. Aged Partagas Chicos still taste the same as not so aged Partagas Chicos. Better yet they look the same and come from the same box!!!🤔 I agree. I have ‘badass’ cigar skills….🤪

I have unicorn horns and bear gallbladders for sale. They age wonderfully and have fantastic resale value. I am out of gorilla paws at the moment, they definitely can travel forward or backward depending on if you put one in the toilet and flush it either in the northern or southern hemisphere. It would depend on if the gorilla was right or left 'pawed' however. -the Pig

No doctor here! You ever notice that you taste a cigar (fully) once you close your mouth and the smoke is suspended in your saliva? Smoke and don’t close your mouth. You will not taste much cigar! You can capture the smoke but really taste a cigar once your tongue comes in contact with you palate. You taste, and smell what is readily miscible in saliva or otherwise highly volatile. Try it!

The bouquet of cigars lessen considerably if you store them on the dry side. They do tend to be much more pleasing, yet subdued, sweet smelling. IMHO cigar scent travels on water vapor.

My first radio controlled airplane circa 1970’s. I am sure I still have the Kraft 2 channel radio stashed around here somewhere. Lord what a butcher job I did as a 10 year old building that thing.

@zeedubbya, meant to say hello on the other thread. As always, I have been overwhelmed with my work and cannot post here as often as I like. I have missed you! I hope you are well. My biggest humidor yet... (LOL). 850K sqft of refrigerator for a grocery chain. The freezer (approx 250K sqft) not built yet. Calling it 'my biggest humidor' is a bit of joke, so please understand the humor! As always when the topics of rH and temperature are brought up, many, many people get confused. In my tenure of discussing this topic, many even get mad defending a position that they know precious little about. As I have said here often, over the decades now.... I don't care how you store "your" (one's own) cigars. I am here to discuss the facts of the matter and share a little of my many years of experience with it. Take it for what it is worth. My entering this thread was a bit obvious. I am talking increasing PMC (percent moisture content) via a reduction in energy of water. HEAT! AND, the perils that are potentially encountered by the refrigeration of cigars. In my mind, refrigeration of cigars is a process of keeping them below "room temperature." For the sake of argument, that ranges from 70 to 75F. This is a video I made about air exchanges some 8 years ago. I was well on my way (even back then) on defining precision humidor control in harsh environments. I did this little video on my test box, a humidor test simulator, to demonstrate results that I had experienced and discovered along the way. I would often make specific videos to answer the questions people sent me. This is one such video. On the topic of condensation, most folks don't realize what water vapor does when it cannot be supported by a lower temperature state. It falls out of suspension and bonds to itself, or any other substrate that will support its company. This is part of what the video is about. It also demonstrates what a lack of knowledge of psychrometrics can get you when you refrigerate your cigars. The meat of the matter is about minute 7. Watch what presumed dry air does to a cool humidor at 70F. Now think about where that water is going to land in a humidor at 60F, and what that water could do to your cigars! Enjoy! -the Pig

This is because you have wetter cigars! If you step back from your own writing and read it as if someone else posted it, you would say, your cigars have more water that is why they exhibit those traits. One of the main issues with cold storage is in the air transfer when you open your humidor, and you have an ambient that is net wet compared to your humidor. If you humidor does not have a devoted dehumidifier or dehumidification process in operation you risk really wet cigars and mold potential. I am not telling you what to do or taste. I am telling you about psychrometrics of real world cigar storage from a guy who has now experimented and empirically proven it for many years now. Your post is a simple one to me. You like wetter cigars (than I do). What you have done is used a riskier means of storage to come to that conclusion. MHO

Gentlemen… I am one of those that thinks bagging is folly. With that said, let me offer you a suggestion. I know a lot about psychrometrics. My thoughts on precision storage are also considered folly by others. Like you, I frankly don’t care about the opinions of others! Why not seal a cigar in a bag. The vacuum does not much matter. Weigh the assembly with a precision scale. Let it sit in various environments for periods of time and reweigh it. The migration of the captured water will result in changes in the mass. Try not to touch it with your hands. And don’t let dust settle on it. Now you will know for sure. Cheers!

Not exactly Lladro… is it? -Piggy

It is a shame so few understand civil liberties. It is not about a place to meet but about the protection of the minority from the majority. A classic lesson on why democracy is a better process than form of government. Strike me down if you must!