I traded some cellophane to someone yesterday and it got me thinking, How/who puts the cigars into the cellophane after they are rolled? If you have ever tried this is no easy task. I tried to search but all the info I could find was about the rollers and alittle about the to person putting bands on. Anybody ever toured a factory and seen how? :-)
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I'm not sure, but I think it depends on if they're going to a B&M or an online retailer...:-):-):-)
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That's a funny question. I've tried a couple of times to put a cigar back into celo and had no luck at all. Maybe its one of the virgins whose thighs the cigars are rolled on??? :-)
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I've worked in a couple of factories (not cigars though) and generally for that type of thing it is done by a machine, starting with a roll of cello and the cigar having it rolled around it, then folded and probably heat or adhesive to make the ends stick together.
I've seen biscuits and sweets being packaged in pretty much the same way but with non-clear, printed stuff and sealed at both ends obviously.

I'd have preffered to have worked with the virgins....
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I watched the CAO Seed to Soul DVD dvd a while back, and I believe this is done by hand as well. At least for them. If I remember correctly, before boxing someone has the task of putting them into the cellos, folding, then sending them off for boxing.
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Oh...what a job!
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I'm still thinking about the virgins.
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:-)
That's exactly how its done. The person cello-ing the cigars is the one placing them into boxes.
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I think putting a cigar back in the cello is the same as trying to get something back into a box to ship it back. Once you remove something from a package it expands and will never go back...kinda like birth. :-)
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I'm thinking about wondering who this guy is that traded for the cello's! I've got a couple thousand cello's i'd trade for some padrons....well, I don't have them, but it'd be damn fun getting them, i'm sure I could get a thousand fairly quickly....oh, and also thinking about the virgins.......:-)
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It's dayum hard. Even if you don't take them off all the way. :-)
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You guys are wrong... virgins are no fun, it's the woman who's been around a few times that knows what you want....

*grumbles about them damn virgins*
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Fat girls try harder :-)
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i have tryed and to get cigars back in there cellophane a few times i have got them in most most of the time i fail or brake the bloody cigars
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I have wondered about doing this myself. I think the cello is softer when the cigar is placed in there at first. I mean it is plant based right? Maybe when the cigar company gets them they are still soft like plastic and over time the cello dries out making it stiff. Maybe the humidity amount that is found in a humi (between 60-70%) is not high enough to keep the cello soft and easy to remove and play on cigars?
Have you ever had a cigar that had cello and was aged? The humidity levels are great for the cigars but the cello will slowly dry out and become crunchy?

This is all guessing though because I don't have any knowledge of old cigars and their cello. Maybe someone with that knowledge could speak up on the matter.
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I'm thinking it's one of those things that probably gets easier with practice. I mean, the people who do it for a living get hours and hours of practice. Most of us probably haven't put much time into trying.
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So after I posted this I went to stash a grabbed a cello off a cigar. It was stiff and crackly. Just like they always are. I grabbed a cup with some water in it and began soaking half of it in the water. I just went and grabbed it out and it was soft as a piece of latex minus the strechiness. It soaked for about 2 1/2 hours. So with that being said I am pretty sure that when the cigar are put in them they are softer and the cigar goes right in. So how would we make them soft after the fact to be able to reuse them? Maybe a ziplock with a little container of water in it. Or instead a ziplock a tupperware container with a small bowl of water so that the cello can draw in as much water as it wanted to without exactly touching the water. You know if you were trying to do that sort of thing.:-)
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Instead of water, what about heating them up? Try using a blow dryer or a heat lamp
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Maybe that would work but I think because it is plant based that would just dry it out more and make it stiffer.
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I have no Idea but I like the scientific experiment that leasingthisspace did and then using Commander Quan's idea of using a blow dryer to help shrink it around the cigar.


But what do I know I'm still a newb.
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