A Glossary on Cigar Construction

Because many have asked in the past and will in the future, here is a definitive look at Cigar construction.

Hand Made - Use long tobacco leaves as the filler which runs the length of the cigar. The Filler, binder and wrapper is combined manually.

Machine Made - Uses machinery to combine "short filler" with the binder and wrapper. Often Homogenized tobacco is use because of the tension caused from the machinery.

Hand Rolled - Machine combines the Long filler with the binder and then is hand rolled.