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Originally Posted by guitar4001
They are usually made by rolling a light-colored wrapper onto a bunch, the adding a strip of darker-colored tobacco on top of the first wrapper to give it the appearance of a candy cane. Actually it is rather simple to create this type of cigar (as a roller), but it just takes an extra step. They sure do look neat-o.
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Nope.
The two capas are cut so that they overlap on the rolling bench and applied together in the same motion.
Here is a video of the capas being applied to a CAO America. A barber pole cigar would be an identical process, just a wider overlap.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2JISX_CdPKg