No one is going to know ........Really. Cutting a cigar in half?

[El Presidente]

Following on from the stunning results from "No one is going to know.......Really. Lighting a cigar the next day.  

 

Have you ever cut a cigar in half in order to have  two (or more) ......say......"bite sized"  cigars?   

There is no shame here ....no one will know 

 

[01Vert]

 Edward Sarhakian (sp) of London Davidoff fame is known for cutting in half longer format cigars.

myself I have never bothered.  

[Pantone151]

Never done it but my first thought would be what happens to the wrapper on the foot half? Wouldn't it want to come apart?

[El Presidente]

I have a gut feel that this poll will be a lot closer than people think 

[El Presidente]

36 minutes ago, Pantone151 said:

Never done it but my first thought would be what happens to the wrapper on the foot half? Wouldn't it want to come apart?

Slide the band up or roll the newly cut foot section around your lips twice following the flow of the leaf.  I have seen it done plenty of times. I have had to do it a few, the most memorable  being the "Loaves and Fishes" event when trout fishing in Chile..... everyone bar Ken and I forgot to bring cigars. Ken refused to share. 

my 898's became 4  4.5 .4's 

[cgoodrich]

At one time I had a box of Sept 2001 HdM Churchills. Needless to say quality control wasn’t so good back then and had a lot of plugged sticks. I would fondle it until I found the plugged region, then snip it on both sides, effectively making 2 petit robustos. Never had a problem with wrapper unravel as I whetted the end decently. It was uncanny how many were plugged mid length, very few plugged near the foot or head.

BTW, I still have 2 of those Churchills in my loose stick drawer. Hmmm 🤔 

[Cigar-Therapy]

After a board meeting, I’ll snip an N1 Lancero in half and share with a friend who doesn’t have a cigar. 
 

We usually only want 30-45 min smoke 💨- and works perfectly. 

[rcarlson]

Crime against humanity.  

[Rhinoww]

2 hours ago, Cigar-Therapy said:

After a board meeting, I’ll snip an N1 Lancero in half and share with a friend who doesn’t have a cigar. 
 

We usually only want 30-45 min smoke 💨- and works perfectly. 

Is this a plea for a Hamlet minuto?

[Cigar-Therapy]

lol - such a senior moment.   Removed

[Paso]

I have been doing it with N1 Lanceros and it works perfect for half an hour smoke with espresso during office break. Never tried with other cigars though 😌

[Cigar Surgeon]

Believe it or not, straight to jail. 

[helix]

I do it with Toscano's. The shape almost promotes it.

[ha_banos]

5 hours ago, Cigar-Therapy said:

I seem to remember @El Presidente being on a fishing trip in either Latin or South America a year or so back - and him being the only one to bring cigars and having to split the babies?

https://www.fohcigars.com/forum/topic/155461-no-one-is-going-to-know-really-cutting-a-cigar-in-half/?do=findComment&comment=1192942

[Cigar-Therapy]

44 minutes ago, ha_banos said:

https://www.fohcigars.com/forum/topic/155461-no-one-is-going-to-know-really-cutting-a-cigar-in-half/?do=findComment&comment=1192942

I feel like an idiot 😂 must’ve skipped right over that one while reading 

[ha_banos]

10 minutes ago, Cigar-Therapy said:

I feel like an idiot 😂 must’ve skipped right over that one while reading 

You need some .... Cigar therapy! 

[MrBirdman]

Only to deal with an intractable plug. Sometimes you’ll get two halves that draw out of a whole that won’t. 

[Lamboinee]

Like the wise Solomon, King of Israel, I have made two of one without using magic.  But it was a totally unselfish and honorable act on my part.  I regret nothing.

It was a glorious summer day aboard the SS Phill Spector, but there was only one remaining unlit cigar onboard.  My crew comprised of two impressionably consensual deckhandmaids who were far from being "cigar smokers" but who had been nag-badgering me about wanting to experiment with a cigar "just for a minute or two, like swarsh bucklers do".  Entranced by the Sirens' song in Widower's Bay, they believed that a cigar could help cure their sea-induced oral fixations; and, perhaps might even pair well with their counterfeit VOSS bottles filled with Zima and water soluble tanning lotion. 

Respecting each of them equally, under Maritime No-Wake Zone Regulations, I offered them a shotgun from the cigar I was already smoking after-which I reached for the hilt of my Narwhal Tuskitana, unsheathed my blade, and sailor chopped right through the middle of the remaining unlit cigar before smoking both halves myself.   With the nag-hatches finally battened down I used one of their makeup compacts as a compass and charted a course back to port.  And, for the first time since the last time anyone saw Phil Spector take a boat ride with one his wife(s), the eponymous vessel returned to port with the same number of undrowned deckhands as were onboard when it cast off.

To have done otherwise would have resulted in burn holes on the sun deck and two green grilled deck handmaidens retching 'er mee midship. yarrrr parlay. 

[Chibearsv]

5 hours ago, helix said:

I do it with Toscano's. The shape almost promotes it.

Yep, they should be the only ones. Better cigar that way IMO

[GP012]

That's what HSA did with the Punch Superfinos - thankfully they came in a 50 cab.

[BlueRidgeFly]

I’ve done it with a couple of Monte 1’s recently, from this box of plugged sticks. Ended up with two very smokable halves. I’ll be doing it again 👍

[JohnnyO]

I have had many "A" double pigtails rolled, some call it the end of the world cigar. An "A" shaped cigar with a pigtail at each end. The end with the true foot will unravel but not completely as the pigatil is holding it in place. A little bit of fruit pectin and you have two mini-"A's". It is called the end of the world cigar as in another forum years ago a question was posted: "If you had to select one bundle/box of 25 cigars for an end of the world scenario what would it be?" That was my answer. John

[torsion]

On 3/22/2023 at 12:02 AM, 01Vert said:

 Edward Sarhakian (sp) of London Davidoff fame is known for cutting in half longer format cigars.

myself I have never bothered.  

I can attest that Edward Sahakian most certainly does do this; I've watched him cut many down in half and it'll be usually laguito no.1/especiale format. If the boss can do it, so can I! 

Although I never have, it further enforces-like what you like, do what you do, there's no right or wrong and who cares what anyone else thinks.

[Miner]

I'm trying to persuade the Perth guys to mortgage their houses and chip in for a box of Cohiba Esplendidos Gran Reserva. We would have to cut them in half for the cigars to go around.

No takers so far 🤪

 

[Mr. Japan]

First time done it together with late Simon Chase that said me : Gino it's only tobacco:-)