Greetings all.
I’ve few vices in life. Between work, family, trying to keep in shape and some down time, I’ve been known to quietly enjoy the occasional cigar - always when I’m away from home ;-)
For a long time, I’ve been keen to explore the chemistry between leather and premium tobacco. I spent my formative years on a stud farm and found any excuse to be in the tack room. I give that credit for forming the genesis of my love of leather. But I recall a relative who always smoked cigars. I loved them. Something about how they complimented one another. Sweet, earthy, animalic, resinous. Recently at an airport, I spent some time in the humidor. I saw some leather cigar cases, beautiful cedar humidors and naturally, a lot of tobacco.
Has anyone ever undertake a project to make cigar cases or other tobacco/leather products? I’m fishing for inspiration.
Comments welcome. (Including how bad they are for you). Just please remember, quality, not quantity.
Stephen :-)
@Hemanth Ideally you'd need to have a two part mould to get that kind of shape, then stitch when dry. If you stitch first then try and mould the leather, you'll never see the same results.
Getting someone to 3D print a mould to your design may be the way to go
@stephenkgavin
I actually had a cigar making course planned for the Masterclass but the difficulty is designing a course making cigar moulds without going into woodworking territory.
One can't assume that everybody has the tools or inclination towards carpentry.
Back in the day, personal cigars cases were made from reinforced paper wrapped in thin leather/ skins.
The technique was known as 'built up work' and involved layering glue soaked paper over a mould until the desired thickness and stiffness was achieved.
This built up 'shell' was then removed from the mould, trimmed, sanded, lined, wrapped and then stitched to an identical shell to form the base or top.
Today probably the best cigar cases in the world are made by Patrick Fallon at Fallon Cuir in France.
He is an ex-Hermes craftsman and current cigar aficionado who produces bags for top fashion brands as well as a line of boutique cigar cases.
PDF catalogue:
http://www.falloncuir.com/pdf/catalog_fallon_web.pdf
Click the picture to read more from therake.com.
I love their advertising here...
Phil
I've seen plenty of molded leather cigar cases. Is that the sort of thing you're talking about?