Anyone else hate having to take the band off?

[makismd]

Am I crazy? I hate the moment I have to take the band off and wait until the very last minute.

 

[andrewsutherland2002]

Am I crazy? I hate the moment I have to take the band off and wait until the very last minute.

Is it b/c you have trouble taking the band off? Or just a mental thing?

 

[Mark-60]

As a newb to this whole thing, I don't often smoke one all the way down to where I need to remove the band. I have moved it towards the head til it started to get in the way before though...


-Mark.

 

[nozero]

I don't like it when it takes wrapper with it and that's why I often wait until I'm about an inch away. But otherwise I don't mind...

 

[newcigarz]

Note to self. Smokable bands.

 

[makismd]

Note to self. Smokable bands.

More of a mental thing. I just like seeing the band on it when I smoke. Maybe it is my superficial and shallow side of me!!

 

[NCRadioMan]

Alot of the time I take the band off before lighting.

 

[ActionAndy]

Yeah, my band's almost always off before I light it. But some of the bad-ass bands do make me flirt with the idea of leaving it on (Ashton ESG, Camacho, that sorta thing--big ornate designs).

 

[SeanGAR]

Alot of the time I take the band off before lighting.

+1

I don't like questions, so I always remove a band.

"They're Dominican".

 

[DonnieW]

+1

I don't like questions, so I always remove a band.

"They're Dominican".

+2

I hate fumbling with lit sticks, trying to delicately get the band off.

 

[LordOfWu]

Alot of the time I take the band off before lighting.

:tpd::tpd:

As long as it doesn't feel like it's going to take wrapper with it I take it off. I generally set it next to me so I can admire what a great cigar aficionado I am, and to make sure everyone around knows what I'm smoking... :bn

...or I just stick it in my pocket to take home with me :ss

 

[stfoley]

bands sticking to the wrapper annoys me. That said, on the brands I see more of that on, I will leave the band on until the glue softens enough that I can just slide it off without damaging the wrapper.

 

[Footbag]

I wait until it's about an inch away for a couple reasons.

1. The heat warms up the glue and releases it easier.
2. If it tears the wrapper, I've smoked most of it.

Oh, I never slide it off!

 

[:eevis]

Take 'em off, i didn't know you were supposed to take 'em off !?! I thought that if they burst into flames, that was the sign of a quality cigar!!

 

[sikk50]

I don't, if I'm taking the band off means it was a good smoke and I'm going to gave as much of it as I can

 

[pro2625]

I wait until it's about an inch away for a couple reasons.

1. The heat warms up the glue and releases it easier.
2. If it tears the wrapper, I've smoked most of it.

Oh, I never slide it off!

Im with you on this one

 

[elderboy02]

I wait until it's about an inch away for a couple reasons.

1. The heat warms up the glue and releases it easier.
2. If it tears the wrapper, I've smoked most of it.

Oh, I never slide it off!

:tpd: I do the same.

 

[WarMace]

I take it off before I start smoking if it comes off easily. Otherwise, I wait til it's about to burn.

 

[livwire68]

Band off before I fire it up unless its a tough one then I will wait until heated and come off easy.

 

[Snake Hips]

I don't, if I'm taking the band off means it was a good smoke and I'm going to gave as much of it as I can

x2

My "journal" of what cigars I like and didn't like is the bands I have laying around. I don't record which I've liked and what the ones I've liked tasted like - if I kept the band, it just means I liked it.