My COVID-19 lockdown side project - LESF shadow box.

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After about a week of intermittent cutting, sanding, mounting, etc.  I have completed my Le Escepcion Selectos Finos shadow box.

Box # 1584 was disassembled, cleaned up and mounted. 

Components include.

• Inner flap logo
• Serial # from Warranty seal.
• Cedar insert
• Box # plaque.
• Side of box.
• Bottom of box where box code is.
• Descriptive insert.
• Original bands (on the cigar)

The cigar is made from a wood dowel, covered in paper mache and then painted with acrylic paint.  The hue/shade isn't perfect but I think it works well. And being acrylic paint, if I want to take another go at it, it's easy to paint over.

[rckymtn22]

Outstanding, looks great!

[HarveyBoulevard]

Very cool. Nice wall art.

[Goodfortune]

Great job! Very unique piece that will be beautiful to display. 

[kalibratecuba]

Very nice!
Only one problem.
I don't think the tourists will buy it without a glass top.

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1 minute ago, kalibratecuba said:

Very nice!
Only one problem.
I don't think the tourists will buy it without a glass top.
 

Actually. There is a glass top.  I have to give it a cleaning before remounting it. 

[Booyaa]

When you mentioned this before I wasn't keen on the idea of a cigar being "included" but that works really well. Great effort.

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1 hour ago, Booyaa said:

When you mentioned this before I wasn't keen on the idea of a cigar being "included" but that works really well. Great effort.

Thanks. It didn't look bad without it, but my intention was to always include one. 

I've got two more similar ones in progress.  I even made a Don Jose. 

[Connoisseur Kim]

Thanks. It didn't look bad without it, but my intention was to always include one. 

I've got two more similar ones in progress.  I even made a Don Jose. 

Man, what a good way to use empty box! I really like to have cigar box art in my man cave!

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[Booyaa]

It does look better with it included!

[Skypilot]

The cigar really finishes the look! Very creative way to reuse and display the box.

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Here are the final products. I made two shadow boxes from 1 empty LESF box.

The larger one is composed of the following.

• inner flap art
• cedar sheet
• serial # seal
• numbered badge
• side of box
• bottom of box where factory and date code are
• the descriptive insert
• a replica of the cigar made from a wood dowel and paper mache. Painted with acrylic paint, adorned with original bands

The small one uses:

• the top of the box,
• the back where the outer stickers wrap around to,
• mounted bands
• replica cigar made the same way.

The last photo is of the first one mounted on the wall with its' glass lid on.

[Capt. Corona]

The visual with the added cigar puts its over top.  Very nice work.

[Connoisseur Kim]

Here are the final products. I made two shadow boxes from 1 empty LESF box.
The larger one is composed of the following.

• inner flap art
• cedar sheet
• serial # seal
• numbered badge
• side of box
• bottom of box where factory and date code are
• the descriptive insert
• a replica of the cigar made from a wood dowel and paper mache. Painted with acrylic paint, adorned with original bands

The small one uses:

• the top of the box,
• the back where the outer stickers wrap around to,
• mounted bands
• replica cigar made the same way.

The last photo is of the first one mounted on the wall with its' glass lid on.

That's a sick cigar art for sure! How did you make replica cigar for your project?

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13 minutes ago, Connoisseur Kim said:

That's a sick cigar art for sure! How did you make replica cigar for your project?

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I bought wood dowels of various sizes. (like below)

I made some paper mache "glue" basic white flour and warm water, to a consistency I liked.

I then took some small pages of sketching paper. (not too thin or thick). I lay it out horizontally and cut two triangles away from the top and bottom.  This is my "leaf". I crumple it to give it texture then  I roll it around the dowel to see where the best coverage on the stick is. When ready, I run it through the paper mache mixture.  I use a pie pan to be able to fit it.  The dowels are never the perfect RG so I make as many "leaves" as I need to make it match. I have an RG tool from one of those Habanos publictions. When it fits, I'm done. I give it about 4 hours to dry. Sand it down a bit then paint it with acrylic paint.

Here's a few pics.

Here's a bare dowel against a real LESF

 

Here's a few prototypes of no cigars in particular. I added some Clear Havanas bands I have laying around.  These were done to test the build process and painting. I dont love the hues on these ones so I might touch them up later.

This is the finished LESF prior to mounting.  You can kinda see the way the paper wraps around  like a rolled cigar.

 

[Connoisseur Kim]

8 minutes ago, bundwallah said:

I bought wood dowels of various sizes. (like below)
I made some paper mache "glue" basic white flour and warm water, to a consistency I liked.
I then took some small pages of sketching paper. (not too thin or thick). I lay it out horizontally and cut two triangles away from the top and bottom.  This is my "leaf". I crumple it to give it texture then  I roll it around the dowel to see where the best coverage on the stick is. When ready, I run it through the paper mache mixture.  I use a pie pan to be able to fit it.  The dowels are never the perfect RG so I make as many "leaves" as I need to make it match. I have an RG tool from one of those Habanos publictions. When it fits, I'm done. I give it about 4 hours to dry. Sand it down a bit then paint it with acrylic paint.
Here's a few pics.
Here's a bare dowel against a real LESF

 
Here's a few prototypes of no cigars in particular. I added some Clear Havanas bands I have laying around.  These were done to test the build process and painting. I dont love the hues on these ones so I might touch them up later.

This is the finished LESF prior to mounting.  You can kinda see the way the paper wraps around  like a rolled cigar.

 

That's a huge load of work! I'm not sure whether I can make the exact same replica cigar! The replica wrapper looks like Maduro BTW ?.

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43 minutes ago, Connoisseur Kim said:

That's a huge load of work! I'm not sure whether I can make the exact same replica cigar! The replica wrapper looks like Maduro BTW ?.

It's not that difficult actually. I spend more time waiting for them to dry than to make them.    And  I forgot to add, you cut the dowels to match the length and sand down one end to make the head.  

[Connoisseur Kim]

It's not that difficult actually. I spend more time waiting for them to dry than to make them.    And  I forgot to add, you cut the dowels to match the length and sand down one end to make the head.  

I'll try that for sure when I add some cigar arts in my man cave! The problem is I'm bad at crafting and using sandpaper...

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[Thirds]

Very impressive.  

[BTWheezy]

Very cool project @bundwallah....how long did it take to make the stunt cigars?  They’re quite realistic!

[El Presidente]

.....Mary must be thrilled  

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9 minutes ago, El Presidente said:

.....Mary must be thrilled  

She actually likes them.  She's been encouraging me to do more creative stuff and get off the computer.

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12 minutes ago, BTWheezy said:

Very cool project @bundwallah....how long did it take to make the stunt cigars?  They’re quite realistic!

Not that long. I did take my time and did it in multiple time slots. But I'd estimate, maybe 2/3 hours to cut, sand, paper mache and paint them.  Waiting for the paper mache to dry and harden takes longer.

[Ken Gargett]

42 minutes ago, El Presidente said:

.....Mary must be thrilled  

at least Di doesn't have to worry about you ever doing anything around the house. 

[LLC]

Looks great


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