Was super excited to try the Alec Bradley Maxx today. I had set aside enough time to enjoy this monster stick during a walk a few miles from the house.
The Good: It's a beautiful stick. Dark oily wrapper, very well constructed, Cool Band which looked and smelled great. That's about all I could say positively. No matter what I did, I could not get a decent draw. This thing was so tightly rolled, it was literally impossible. I tried every trick in the book to get this thing going and when I did get a decent draw, it would die seconds later. Cutting a little shorter didn't help. Poker didn't help, rolling massage - nope. It wasn't due to RH or anything else. Simply a bum stick that was rolled too tight. I've had better luck sucking a Wendy's Frosty through a straw.
Like you, I've had the occasional bad stick but this was Very disappointing to say the least. Well there's always tomorrow!
QuoteSilverstix - 10/11/2018 8:30 AM It happens. Sometimes even the draw tool is not enough to save a tent peg. Frustrating, especially if it's a cigar you were really looking forward to
Honestly....it's about the "tool"....so far...( knocking on wood ) I have not had one cigar that I couldn't correct. It's how you use the tool.....insert and without twisting and pull straight out with twisting as well....the hook will grab the plug and out it comes leaving a channel inside where the draw is almost perfect.
QuoteCigary - 10/11/2018 9:24 AMQuoteSilverstix - 10/11/2018 8:30 AM It happens. Sometimes even the draw tool is not enough to save a tent peg. Frustrating, especially if it's a cigar you were really looking forward toHonestly....it's about the "tool"....so far...( knocking on wood ) I have not had one cigar that I couldn't correct. It's how you use the tool.....insert and without twisting and pull straight out with twisting as well....the hook will grab the plug and out it comes leaving a channel inside where the draw is almost perfect.
98% of the time, that works. It worked for me last night and saved a cigar where I could feel the knot in the tobacco. But there have been a handful of cigars that, no matter how much twisting and pulling I did, just couldn't be saved.