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Cigar Bands

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Thumper9

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Here's to a little discussion of cigar bands to pass some time. What ones do you like? I haven't had an ISOM in 20 years, so let's stick to non-ISOM's. Dig up some older brands too.

Modern

CAO Brazilia
La Aroma de Cuba
Indian Tabac
La Gloria Cubana

Traditional

Montecristo
Partagas
 
Padron Fumas have a super cool old school band...26's are very classy.... And who can deny the majesty of the Diamond Crown Maximus band? It's the diggity!
 
CAO bands are pretty tight.
The Perdomo La Tradicion bands
Gotta love the Punch Champion bands
 
I like the NC Partagas Black bands. The double bands like the 1916 Cameroon from Torano and the Double Ligero from La Flor D are cool, albeit double the pain to remove when you are driving a 5-speed in rush hour traffic.
 
La Vieja Habana by Drew Estates has a colorful, interesting band - very "collectable"

Also, check out the La Aroma de Cuba bands -very nice artwork.
 
I like nearly any band where they take the trouble to emboss the image. The Bahia bands are butt ugly, Perdomo's are garish.'

LAdC I think are really well done. Hate foil and flat, high gloss metallics.


My pet peeve is bands that are wrapped too tight to slip off and/or (redundant, btw, '/' equals 'and or') glued so firmly you can't get an edge loose or where the glue is excessive and takes wrapper with it. :angry: :angry:

The MX2 I had today, although ugly (both smoke and band) was very nice in that it easily separated and came off. "Beauty is only skin deep" however; very nice smoke! :thumbs:
 
I like the bands on the CuestaRey Centenario, the higher end Gurka, and the CAO Italia and Brazilias, all very cool. Also, the Ashtons, Opus X of course are very regal looking. :thumbs:


Cool thread by the way,
JV
 
Im partial to the gurkha legend bands as well as the opus x bands. One of my other favorites is the la vieja bands, very modern and colorful.
 
Kento said:
The double bands like the 1916 Cameroon from Torano and the Double Ligero from La Flor D are cool
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agreed.
on the other end of the spectrum-of-cool for double-banded smokes, the Rocky Patel Vintage 1990/1992 bands have to be some of the most unimaginative, piss-poorly designed wastes-of-ink-and-paper to grace rolled leaf.

I like simplicity just fine, but they get an "F" for effort on those ones. ;)
 
Are Oliva's the only cloth banded cigars remaining?

A lot of great mentions here. I overlooked the Ghurka, and old favorites like the Partagas, Punch, Avo and Upmann bands. LVH are neat. Sancha Panzo Double Maduro two piece bands.

I don't like the new 5 Vegas Gold - way too much for me. Same for Graycliff. Can't afford anyway!

I also never realized that cigar art was so collectible and valuable as I have learned from reading "Cigar Magazine".

Anyone for some old lines or earlier cigar band art?

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