Fired several torpedos but all were duds

[Maccabee]

Well it has been a long while since i have posted anything, allot has been going on and i have been distracted with many things. ( My sisters husband walked out on her wile she was still pregnant with there fourth girl, just to name one thing.) yet, here i am again, and this post is about my disappointment with my box of cigars. Maybe someone of yall have experienced this, but i hope not. I got a box of PDR, Capa Oscura (i spoke to Tommey today about these and mistakenly told him it was a Cameroon wrapper), my favorite, only this time i got the Torpedo. Well, most of these cigars when i would take them out would have a torn cap. Now at first i though well it is small nothing big i can still cut and smoke...wrong! the entire cigar unraveled. I stood in front of my humidor and pulled out 3 cigars back to back each one educating me in what the inside of a cigar looks like.
I at first though it was my humidity, i have been fighting to keep it above 65%, and think i need another humidifier in there. Yet, I have never had this problem with the Rebusto, nor any of my other cigars....

[gui_tarzan]

If they unraveled are you sure you didn't mistake the head for the foot when you cut it? Don't laugh, I've done that before.

[Maccabee]

Well to late I laughed.. and no one: a torpedo shape makes it hard for me to make that mistake. Two: if that was the case I would have noticed by now as this hasvhappend several times. 3: they are in cello so which end is up stands out.

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[BigJohn]

On a torpedo, don't cut too far. I usually cut only about 1/4 inch down from the tip, leaving a smaller hole to draw through. If the draw is tight, cut a tiny bit more, but never more than about the length of your thumbnail...

[N99]

Wet the cap before you clip it, or just use a little of your own saliva. Usually works for me.

[grtrx]

on torps - and I used to smoke a lot of them - the wetting helps, the short cuts helps, and your cutter has to be really sharp and really perfectly lined up. Old german steel Xikars were the best in my experience. Low end cutters would mash or do a double cut thet set off the unraveling

[Briandg]

They were all torn? Maybe, just maybe, they were slammed against the ground when shipped and the heads cracked when they hit the side of the box.

I have a box of torps that are shipped naked, and every bloody one of them were cracked, in almost identical places. These aren't the usual torp, they are the belicoso, with a short cone shaped taper. They aren't easy to smoke, but it's working.

Do you use a xikar, or other really good cutter? When I use a double guillotine, I trap the head, and carefully rotate it around, cutting a line through the wrapper/binder, and only when I have a perfect cut that goes all around, will I smash the blades through the filler.

[grtrx]

the shipping... that's becoming an issue more and more it seems... cheap packing yields beaten cigars

[CSMAnderson]

I smoke a lot of PDR cigars and I've never had the problem you mentioned. I'd say there was a shipping problem, not a cigar problem.

[Maccabee]

First my cutter is fine, I do not remember the brand but gives a perfect cut. Also they are split/unraveling before I cut. As for PDR its my favorite brand only this is first time I am trying the torpedo size. Never had a problem with PDR.

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