A cigar made entirely by hand, usually constructed with a high quality wrapper and long filler and binder as opposed to cut filler used in machine made and cigar seconds. Head - the closed end of the cigar, or the end you cut and smoke. Ligero - One of the three basic types of filler tobacco. Machine made - A term that refers to cigars made entirely by machine and less expensive cigar tobacco. Mold - The wooden form used by cigar rollers to give shape to a finished bunch of cigar tobacco.
Some molds have two parts which are then placed in a press.
Ring gauge - A standard industry measurement for the diameter of a cigar in 64ths of an inch. Seco - One of three basic types of filler tobacco. 40 Sun grown - Tobacco grown in direct sunlight that creates a thicker leaf with thicker veins that's often used in more hearty tasting cigars like maduros. Volando - One of three types of filler tobacco. Wrapper - A tobacco leaf of varying quality that's wrapped around the finished bunch and binder to complete the cigar.