Sorting coning once and for all

[misterbulgarin]

Thanks to my current lighting technique, my cigars rarley cone majorlyanymore, but occassionaly I get some annoying coning. I know its sometimes down to the construction, but really, what is coning?

Is it lighting it and smoking it too fast? Sometimes Ive found that if I let a coned cigar smoke by itself for a little while, while being perfectly horizontal, it may even itself out. Dont know if thats the tried and tested way but Ive found it can help out sometimes. What do you guys do with yer cones?


(last sentence open to mild jokes)

[matt257]

Are we talking coning in the centre of the cigar? Or one side coning?

I think the centre coning is due to the Ligero leaf that burns slower than the other tobacco leaves

If you find one side burns quicker than the other, rotate the cigar in between puffs. I have found that helps for me

[misterbulgarin]

oh right, yeah I meant centre coning. I thought funky side burning was canoeing

[tonyg]

Interesting im still getting problems with i think its called canoeing ? lol , tending to get one side burn faster than the other , i can usually get it to even out in the end but its annoying , still working on my lighting technique i guess .

[matt257]

oh right, yeah I meant centre coning. I thought funky side burning was canoeing

Yea, you are probably right. Either of them annoy the f#@k outta me though

[matt257]

Interesting im still getting problems with i think its called canoeing ? lol , tending to get one side burn faster than the other , i can usually get it to even out in the end but its annoying , still working on my lighting technique i guess .

It can aslo be attributed to the cigar being too close to a humidification device and one side getting more RH than the other.