Ryan Posted March 11, 2014 Share Posted March 11, 2014 It's Rob Fox's 40th birthday next week. I got an idea that I wanted to get him something a little special. For the last three years, Rob has organised a baseball game with Hamlet between the rollers and international visitors at the end of festival week, there are threads about those games on the forum. A few weeks before the festival, I got in touch with Hamlet to see if he could roll a cigar shaped like a baseball bat for Rob. I was thinking maybe somthing about 12-15 inches long, I've seen non-Cuban versions of this kind of thing before as novelties. I thought it would make a nice gift for Rob and a reminder of all the baseball. I even asked Yiorgos, who travelled to Cuba after me, to bring an empty presentation tube from a whiskey bottle and some bubble wrap so Rob could get it home safely! Of course Hamlet, being Hamlet, went above and beyond what I was expecting and made a cigar not only the shape but actual size of a baseball bat! We had a dinner at Santy's sushi restaurant on the Saturday after the gala dinner. Nice night, Hamlet + wife, Punch Joe and wife, Albert and Loren from Gibraltar, Bogusha and Paul from London, David and Yiorgos from Dublin, Rob's brother Stuart, Percy, more friends and myself. Not a bad restaurant, interesting little place, very out of the way. To rub it in, Hamlet let us know that it is not only shaped like a baseball bat but actually smokeable as a cigar! Of course part of his speech was his joke that Rob would be able to get it home in an empty whiskey bottle tube! Rob did get it home safely and told me he had a lot of fun with airport security in Havana and Ireland bringing it on as carry-on.. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ryan Posted March 11, 2014 Author Share Posted March 11, 2014 More pictures. The bat beside a Hamlet Salomon.. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beamer Posted March 11, 2014 Share Posted March 11, 2014 Incredible. Thanks for sharing! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ebhead Posted March 11, 2014 Share Posted March 11, 2014 Wow!!! E Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZAZ Posted March 11, 2014 Share Posted March 11, 2014 That's awesome! Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hafner32 Posted March 11, 2014 Share Posted March 11, 2014 Outstanding, Great Pics! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Puros Y Vino Posted March 11, 2014 Share Posted March 11, 2014 Very cool. Hamlet knows his stuff. Just don't ask him to roll a Lancero. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Habanos2000 Posted March 11, 2014 Share Posted March 11, 2014 Great idea and even greater result! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Armaniac Posted March 11, 2014 Share Posted March 11, 2014 That's fantastic! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hypersomniac Posted March 11, 2014 Share Posted March 11, 2014 Hopefully it isn't corked. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thechenman Posted March 11, 2014 Share Posted March 11, 2014 Wow...now that's impressive. I wasn't expecting to actually see a life size bat. That's a true memento. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CaptainQuintero Posted March 11, 2014 Share Posted March 11, 2014 That's incredible! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ramon_cojones Posted March 11, 2014 Share Posted March 11, 2014 Man what an awesome story, I love stuff like this. You are living the life sir. Why won't Ham roll lanceros, that's what I'm going to ask him haha. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Puros Y Vino Posted March 11, 2014 Share Posted March 11, 2014 Why won't Ham roll lanceros, that's what I'm going to ask him haha. He just hates rolling small RG vitolas. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
laficion Posted March 11, 2014 Share Posted March 11, 2014 That's a FANTASTIC night, man.Thank you for sharing It with us , Andy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BOOIE100 Posted March 11, 2014 Share Posted March 11, 2014 Hope his humidor is big enough! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chunks96ss Posted March 11, 2014 Share Posted March 11, 2014 That's awesome, what a great gift Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CUBANO Posted March 11, 2014 Share Posted March 11, 2014 Man, you can hit a baseball with that cigar Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
straizor Posted March 11, 2014 Share Posted March 11, 2014 that is quite the handy work. hell of a gift Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maverickdrinker Posted March 11, 2014 Share Posted March 11, 2014 beautiful stuff! Glad to see everyone smiling and having fun. Please wish foxy a happy bday for me. Nice to see Jose and Hamlet having a good time Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NJP Posted March 11, 2014 Share Posted March 11, 2014 Grouse. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carts Posted March 11, 2014 Share Posted March 11, 2014 that is awesome, thanks for posting this up! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeremy Festa Posted March 11, 2014 Share Posted March 11, 2014 Genius! Sent iPhonically Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ohioldd Posted March 11, 2014 Share Posted March 11, 2014 Wow! Very nice! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sengjc Posted March 11, 2014 Share Posted March 11, 2014 That is really a baseball bat. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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