If you can find out the true diameter (not circumference, as often incorrectly stated, even by top flight cigar executives), multiply by 64 and you'll get the ring size.
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64ths of an inch. Therefore, a one inch cigar is a 64 ring. If that cigar in the picture, for example, is one foot in diameter, its ring therefore, is 768, or 12x64. A 48 ring cigar is 3/4" in diameter.
Exactly, 3/8" = 24 ring. Other popular cigars sizes just off the bat are listed below, as I prepare to fly into the shower. Also, remember that in the case of a figurado, the type of cigar that looks like a pregnant whale, the ring gauge should be measured at both its narrowest and widest points. You will often search a web site and see a certain cigar listed as 5x44/52 or even 6x40/56/48, which means that at the cap the cigar was a 40 ring, then whaled out to a 56 ring at the middle and tapered again, but only slightly to a 48 at the foot.
32 ring = 1/2"
40 ring = 5/8"
48 ring = 3/4"
50 ring = 50/64" or reduced to 25/32"
56 ring = 7/8"
70 ring = 1 3/32"
32 ring = 1/2"
40 ring = 5/8"
48 ring = 3/4"
50 ring = 50/64" or reduced to 25/32"
56 ring = 7/8"
70 ring = 1 3/32"
You would probably need a face the size of king kong to put it in your mouth to smoke it. :shock:
