Talk:Dutch Masters (cigar)

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A few suggestions:

1. If you leave the "brownie," - what we just call "the paper" as in "the leaf and the paper" - intact, meaning you don't rip off the inch that was under the cancer paper, then the curved part at the end can be used for a nice built in filter, so that your new smoking tincture doesn't get into your mouth (pull through) when you smoke the blunt. Also, your blunt will now be as long as the original cigar, meaning it will last longer.

2. Lighters are certainly an effective way to dry, but if one has the time just letting it air dry for a few minutes is best. This way it will be dry on the outside, but you won't dry up the natural moisture inside the leaf, and thus the blunt will burn slower.

3. When you split the paper on its seam you will see that inside there is a thin vertical strip where the paper overlaps, removing this will usually help the blunt burn more evenly. Also if you want to roll a smaller blunt you can take tear off larger vertical strips of the paper. When you do this it is generally a good idea to cut off a vertical strip of about the same width from the leaf, to do this you must first stretch out the leaf (it should be moistened first, to lessen the risk of cracking it), and usually it is best to use scissors or a knife, because the veins running through the leaf make it hard to tear evenly by hand (unlike the paper). The purpose of removing excess paper to roll a smaller blunt is that when you have more paper over-lapping it will make the blunt burn less evenly, and it will increase the ratio of paper to smoking material making the smoke harsher.

4. If one wishes to roll really small blunts, say just for one person, if you cut the leaf and paper both in half vertically, you can roll two thin blunts out of it. If you cut those thin blunts in half after they are rolled, this time horizontally into two separate blunts each, you will have four cigarette sized blunts out of one Dutch Master. This will only work, however, for larger Dutch Masters, not smaller ones like the Elegantes. Such thin blunts are often called bloints, because they are closer in size to a joint than a traditional blunt.

Also these same methods are applied to rolling blunts out of Garcia Vegas, and likely other cheap cigars with unwrapable leaves on the outside.

[edit] serious disambiguation needed

this is the most blatant case i have seen of having a commercial type article take over a space that should relate to art history, at a minimum the art article needs to be written and disambiguation occurAnlace 20:11, 21 February 2006 (UTC)

I will move it in a second - you'll have to write about Rembrandt etc. in this namespace though, b/c I'm not qualified. --Joe 23:50, 4 March 2006 (UTC)

I seriously agree with you Anlace. If I get a chance I will try and do it but I'm not entirely sure how to go about it. Would you say that there should be a disambig page at Dutch Masters or should there be the page for the painters with a template at the top directing people to the cigar page if that is what they meant? I would suggest the second option given that that is what I assume people would generally think about in reference to "Dutch Masters" - Painting not Cigars. Witty lama 04:35, 20 March 2006 (UTC)