the comfy setup, the unnecessarily perfect camera angle, the taped together blade, the trash bag full of tobaco leaves, i could have told you this guy was a professional before i started the video
Man, Cigar rolling videos are some of the most relaxing videos out there. Really love seeing it slowed down like this so you can actually comprehend what's going on lol Great videos!
I am a Tampa born native of Florida. I still can taste what a high quality cigar is like. Thank you for sharing a video of your amazing skill. Many of our family worked in the cigar industry. My heart is full of memories.
That's great! I have some molds from Tampa. Ybor is a pilgrimage I will make someday. I often order cigars from the little factories around there. Your memories must be amazing.
Bliss your amazing. Awesome Channel and its cool to see someone who isn't an in your face streamer or a channel with the standard hit the subscribe button mantra you hear at the front and end of the video. Its always excellent craftsman who i have found to be replying. I grew up in Tamaqua Pa with a large number of close relatives living in the Mennonite portion of town some practicing some just liking the environment for a family. I now live in AL and after some years i was experiencing some difficulties with the stress of the speed of large cities. I turned a floor of the home into a place where i could preform the tasks and create the things i loved to make. Something that has been quite difficult for me has been finding produces where i was even able to contact the farm as i keep running into places that sell their entire yields to corporates manufactures. To the degree it took 2 separate farmers markets and i had to find someone who knew someone else to even find milk to acquire neat. Where do you get your supplies? no smokeshops here no cigar "lounges" have them, the only one i ever saw is no longer open and it was about 20 years ago they had an in house roller. @@BlissCigarCo
@@forrest24272 Well I reckon it's similar with tobacco. The really good brands either grow all their own; or the good farms sell all their stuff to one or two big companies. Then the farms that don't necessarily make the greatest leaf sell it to places that you CAN buy from, like wholeleaftobacco.com, leafonly.com, and totalleafsupply.com. Although you can occasionally get some good leaf from those places, of course. As for me I've worked up personal connections through the years and am able to get a pound or two here or there of pretty decent leaf. But it took about ten years of hustling and cultivating personal relations to get to that place.
I dont smoke but my grandpa dad and we were close. He enjoyed cigars and cigarettes until about a week before he passed. Watching people roll either make me think of him fondly and its also just cool to watch the craft! Many thanks 💖
It may sound strange, but I can SMELL this video! Brought back fond memories of watching the old Cubanos rolling sticks in Ybor at the bodegas (I was born right on Tampa Bay). You could always get a hot pressed Cuban sandwich and wonderful cigars at any of the little stores, and there were usually some fellas wearing guayaberas playing dominoes. Thank you for the wonderful flashback!
Thank you for creating such a great false memory for me! I can smell the Cuban sandwiches. I enjoyed your comment so much that I read it to my girlfriend. She saw me reading it and said, "Why are you smiling?"
From a craftsman to a craftsman.. the care you put into creating something everyone else views as a cigar is very impressive. Very nice job. No intro needed, no conclusion necessary.
I remember the first time I smoked a cigar. It was a Java by Drew Estate and I smoked it backwards, burned the shit out of it, only smoked half and vomited. I've gotten better since then lol, but now I've moved to hookah mainly. I still occasionally smoke a good cigar every once in a while though. Excellent work sir, you're a true craftsman
Thank you thank you. Reminds me of the first time I tried chewing tobacco when I was a kid in high school, "Wint-o-green." Tasted like candy so I really worked it in my mouth, squeezing out all those delicious juices. Soon I was on the floor of the school bus, dying of nausea....
Whenever I have a cigar, at one point I always think that someone rolled it with this care, and think it's impossible to do this if you don't love what you do. Beautifull work, beautifull video. Thanks for sharing
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Oh my God. First, as a person that has rolled countless cigs. I can say you have done that many many times. There are personal little movements one picks up after doing something enough time. Your dexterity is riddled with them. Secondly, I want so bad. That looks delish. That blend looked delish.
Thank you for your very nice comment. After all these years and decades I often recognize other peoples' handmoves from my own videos which is always a great surprise!
I watched them making Cigars in Puerta del Carmen Mexico, very fascinating to watch, I don't smoke but I bought a cigar out of respect for these craftsmen and women, the cigar cost me $14
Another enchanting, hypnotic and therapeutic video from the wonderful man behind the hands @ Bliss Cigars. It really is blissful to sit back with some nice music, light up a cigar and watch you roll. I'm in awe and also inspired to try rolling some myself. I'm still buying my sticks for now, but I've been very tempted to get some of my own whole leaf. I don't want to waste alot of money. So I'm learning as much as I can before spending any money on it. Do you think I should just purchase a small variety to practice? Or should I stick to the books first before making any hands on mistakes? I learn from the mistakes most. I'm a hard way kind of learner. Likely, as I'm a bit clumsy(my painting teachers called me heavy handed as I tend to smudge my drawings ALOT, it eventually was something I just embraced as part of my style and individuality of my work;not sure that will translate into the art of rolling cigars -my guess is heavy handed cigars don't smoke well!) expensive mistakes that will leave me a bunch of these short filler style maybe panatellas or even my own miniatures...??? I am so intrigued and I'm sure your work area/rolling table smells like heaven itself) Thank you so much for posting these. They are both very educational and THEY ARE ALSO MY THERAPY! Cheers!
I think you have the right ideas: get a small amount to practice with, and realize that no matter how badly you mess it up you'll still have usable, smokeable tobacco, whether you try to roll it into a short filler stick, stick it in a pipe, or whatever. Learning to roll requires a certain kind of zen personality. It's a combo of enjoying learning crafts, of enjoying a process, of doing artistic work with your hands, mostly of learning to be good at something. And in the case of rolling cigars, potentially saving a lot of dough.
Imagine your a high roller and you pull in this guy just to roll two magical cigars on side table in restaurant you chose to impress your possible business partner and deal. Especially if he loves a good cigar. Success
