Drew Estates Flying Pig rolling photos

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Originally Posted by wayner123

Are those plastic molds?

Yes. Plastic or a polycarbonate of some sort.

In fact, all of the cigar factories I saw that had very special, difficult, unique shapes used plastic/polycarbonate molds like that for them. DE Eggs, DE Flying Pigs and the the Padron 80th, immediately come to mind.

Most of the other stuff used wooden molds. I think it's simply a matter of what's easier or more cost effective to produce. A shape like the FP mold would be difficult to replicate exactly by hand in a wood mold, especially for as many molds as they would need, yet a standard parejo shape would be easy and inexpensive to manufacture in wood, plus, no set up costs, unlike a poly mold. In fact, the box shop at the factory could easily turn out as many wooden parejo molds as they needed on demand.