Here are a couple of cigar replica pens I made over the last couple of days in between making a million regular cigar pen kits with cigar labels on them.
The Berger & Argenti distributor wants 6 pens like this (in a couple of different styles). It's an unusual cigar (gets a rating of 92) so they are very good smokes. The little tang sticking out of the end by the warning label is a tightly wound core of long leaf tobacco. You light this first and it keeps the ash on the cigar a long time and it never goes out. Some new design for cigars.
The E Carrillo is made by Ernesto Carrillo a cigar maker in Miami. He used to make all the Gloria Cubana cigars until he sold the brand to General Cigar about 15 years ago. Now he makes these occassionally. They are fairly hard to come by. It is the favorite cigar of a local cigar store owner.
The Carrillo is Amboyna Burl and the Berger & Argenti is Brown Mallee Burl. I used to really like the Amboyna for cigars but I think the Mallee looks a lot more realistic. I think they are both attractive. I left them shiny per the customers request. I usually dull the finish (except on the label) with fine steel wool.
I used my new metal lathe for all the drilling and squaring. I was able to make the top of the Berger & Argenti so short by cutting the tube way down and step drilling the top to just barely fitting the nib end. I don't think I could have done this as well on my Jet.
The Berger & Argenti distributor wants 6 pens like this (in a couple of different styles). It's an unusual cigar (gets a rating of 92) so they are very good smokes. The little tang sticking out of the end by the warning label is a tightly wound core of long leaf tobacco. You light this first and it keeps the ash on the cigar a long time and it never goes out. Some new design for cigars.
The E Carrillo is made by Ernesto Carrillo a cigar maker in Miami. He used to make all the Gloria Cubana cigars until he sold the brand to General Cigar about 15 years ago. Now he makes these occassionally. They are fairly hard to come by. It is the favorite cigar of a local cigar store owner.
The Carrillo is Amboyna Burl and the Berger & Argenti is Brown Mallee Burl. I used to really like the Amboyna for cigars but I think the Mallee looks a lot more realistic. I think they are both attractive. I left them shiny per the customers request. I usually dull the finish (except on the label) with fine steel wool.
I used my new metal lathe for all the drilling and squaring. I was able to make the top of the Berger & Argenti so short by cutting the tube way down and step drilling the top to just barely fitting the nib end. I don't think I could have done this as well on my Jet.
