Here are some (not so good) pics of 2 short storys I have.. I pulled the one out on the right and it does not smell good at all, so I pulled the 2nd out and it smelled normal... look at the band differences.

Pic 1 - Look at the extra gold on the band along the bottom one the left one

Pic 2 - Hard to tell, but inside the embossing on the left is white, and on the right is read

Pic 3 - Hard to tell again, but the word HAND on the left is gold and on the right is white

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The embossing is alot stronger on the left side as well..

Now the weirdest part, the one on the right is from a local B&M, the one on the left is from CI...

Thoughts?
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The bands have changed recently. I noticed maybe 4 months ago.
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I like the old bands better. The new bands take up way too much space on the Short Story.
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They are fakes!! Send them to me for a fiery death.
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:-):-)
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Looks to me like the one has 2 bands on it.

Yes, some of the bands have an extra color
band at the bottom, to indicate a different
wrapper. I noticed it on some Hemi sungrowns
that I bought last year, iirc.

Chemyst :-)
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The one on the right has the traditional band, the foot is a bit sloppy though. The one on the left has an overall band design similar to some of the other new Fuentes and I find it very doubtful that CI would sell a fake. :-)
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The new bands with the gold strip around the bottom is also on the Don Carlos line.
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the old black bottomed bands were on the DCs as well.
personally I like the smaller bands more .
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There is a upside to the new bands: They are a lot easier to take off!
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It took me five years to almost understand fuente bands. I give up. :-)
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