Pectin
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Does anyone know where I can get some pectin? I've got this smoke thats unraveling and I would return it to the place that I bought it from but I really dont wanna deal with that sites customer service (guesses anyone?)
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You should do a search on E-bay. There was a person on there a few months ago selling little bottles of "Cigar glue" for lack of a better term. I don't know if it was Pectin or (I can't think of the proper name for it) the actual substance which is normally used. Apparently (at least I have read ) this stuff is made from the bark or some similar part of a certain tree, which is grown (probably among other places) in Canada. The bottles were not that expensive ($5 or 6) considering it would last a long long time. Hope that helps.
It would if you were settling for Pectin and not looking for the real stuff. Someone before has already mentioned Pectin and where to get it. I was pointing him in the direction of something a little different.
Mythology has long accused cigar makers of twirling cigars in their mouth, using saliva to secure the head, and there is evidence to give credence to the legend. Certainly early cigar rollers, especially those making cigars for their own consumption, did exactly that. But by the time cigar production became factory-centered in the first half of the 1800’s, the heads of cigars were almost universally held in place by gum tragacanth bled from the tap root of Iranian loco-weed and dried. Tragacanth is odorless and tasteless and when added to water becomes a gel used in foods, art, medicine, cosmetics and cloth manufacture as a stiffener, binder, thickener and glue. The cigar industry used it as a paste for two centuries. Trade relations with the middle-East have always been volatile and so has the price of the gum. That’s why this 1885 ad warns that prices are subject to change. Today, because of worsening relations with the middle-east and the ability to cultivate other gums in the western hemisphere, gum tragacanth has largely been replaced in most U.S. commercial applications. In Latin countries, stickum of various types goes by the generic goma.
from Tony Hyman with the help of retired cigar maker, Bob Frutiger
MCAG
I made a bear but it looked like a deer and then dyed it all black with indian ink... I threw it out after I got a "C" on it
You should have used it on cigars ans smoked it.