I have a few mason jars sitting around and might just use them for storage purposes. I am not a very handy person to begin with, why bother LOL. I think I might just go for the heavy-duty one like you suggested. You are right, I usually start with "budget" equipment/tool when I pick up a hobby and always end up getting higher-end (I wouldn't say best) equipment anyways. The only thing I don't like here is the politics.Ĭlick to expand.Interesting, did not know the filter makes difference. I can smoke here without being treated like a pos criminal, and I don't have to sleep with one eye open due to a year round wildfire season. Been in Iowa since 2008 and wouldn't go back for love nor money. What part of California are you in? I'm from rural northern Cali. I may be spending money on MYO gear now, but the long term savings are huge when I'm saving over $50 a carton. I assume CA meant California and not Canada. I can only imagine the tax in tobacco-hating California. I've been paying about $8.50 a pack here. Gambler brand tubes from the convenience store sucked. They taste better, draw easy, (the filter is only half the length of the printed cork pattern on the tube) and work flawlessly with the injector. I'm really liking these Mascotte Gold tubes. Once you've made a few packs it gets easier and you'll be more consistent. So you'll want to pack the tubes full without making the injector lever too hard to push. That's why one cig burns so much longer than other brands. AS cigs are pretty tightly packed compared to other brands. The injector takes a bit of use to get the hang of. Thankfully more experienced members were generous with tips and info in response to my newbie posts. The rollers will get gummed up and become harder and harder to turn with the crank. Clean the cutting rollers with hot water and a scrubber toothbrush when it starts getting hard to crank. But I cheaped out and hadn't found WLT and this forum to know what I was doing. Same goes for my work tools and materials. In general I have always thrown money at my hobbies to get the best gear because it paid off so quickly in the end results, whether handspinning, beer brewing, or cheesemaking. Think hard about the shredder you buy, because its the first thing you'll outgrow. It will only fit on the edge of a wooden tv tray and comes loose during use. My budget shredder came from Leaf Only and the clamp on it sucks big time. You might be fine with the budget shredder since you don't smoke that much. I don't think sunlight affects stored tobacco. If you store in a mason jar, you'll need half gallon size for that much shred. The leaves are stored in the vapor proof bag they came in, folded closed with clothes pins. Recently what I'm doing is destemming an entire bag of leaves and just shredding a baggie full for blending. If yellow is actually lighter than you prefer, then go with regular filter tubes instead of lights. Now I'm planning on growing 12 varieties in my garden next year to further reduce the cost. I basically spent the equivalent $ of two cartons to get started and make about 8 cartons of cigs. There's a bit of monetary outlay when you start making your own, before you start saving money. You'll also need to buy an injector machine to fill the tubes. I have been using Mascotte Gold tubes I bought on EBay. I want to enjoy the process as well as the results. Making 200 cigs all at once with a manual injector feels kind of daunting and boring. I'm not stuck on only recreating American Spirit Periques. I prefer to make a pack fresh every day as I play around with the 9 variety sampler of leaves. I'm going to get more leaves during the sale since tobacco doesn't spoil. I destemmed and shredded it all while I watched tv online on election night. I've gotten about 1.5 cartons of cigs from one pound of destemmed organic Canadian flue cued leaf blended with a quarter pound of destemmed perique leaves. Stock up on leaves during the WLT Black Friday sale. I'm pretty new to this but I already outgrew the budget shredder and am getting the heavy duty shredder. I was hoping more experienced folks would answer before I offered my newbie advice. I imagine all the American Spirits are blends so they can recreate the same taste over millions of packs. I was smoking the perique, in the black box. Its the filters that makes your yellows milder. You're going to want to use tubes for light cigs if you want to recreate your yellows. Dark yellow box is organic tobacco, light yellow is regular tobacco.
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