Light this! said:
On my morning drive I revisited the Punch RE just to confirm that they're good - yup still very good. :love: However both that I've had so far burned wonky and I had to constantly keep touching them up.
Have you turned them in the box Kris?
Gary, I don't have the box for these as it was a group buy. Does turning them in the box help out with burn issues?
Definately. I periodically spin them in most all my boxes...especially those with consistent side burn issues.
This whole discussion is based on that assumption...consistent burning issues in the same location. One of the constants being that the heavier wrappers tend to hold the humidity. I also get that in my older sticks that reside in the bottom of my Aristocrat as the humidity is about 4-5% higher down there. It's also where I like to long term age my cigars as I've always been a proponent to aging at higher humidities.
Also, try dry boxing the next one for a few days before smoking it to see if that helps.
I've always treated uneven burning as a storage issue before thinking it's a construction issue when it involves a good many cigars in the same box. In my time smoking, I look at it as being one of three degrees of excessive humidity. If it's just the wrapper burning incorrectly, that could be fixed by either dry boxing or spinning them to the opposite side of the consistent burn location for a week or so. If the uneven burning encompasses the wrapper and binder, that could take a few weeks to correct itself once spun. If it's the wrapper, binder, and has worked it's way into the filler, I'll spin them and wait 3-6 months before revisiting them again to see if it helped. If it hasn't, I'll then chalk that up to a construction issue. The main factor to keep in mind is...like you said, are most of the cigars doing it? Are they doing it at the same spot?...and if so, is it directly opposite to the front of the band?...the bottom of the cigar sorta say.
At the end of the day, it's a crap shoot. But with a little tinkering, I get less aggravated as I've done my best to correct this flaw. Plus it gives me some quality time playing with my cigars...who very seldom give me any back talk like my kids & ex-wife do.
