Charity · Detroit, MI
The Celani and Cigar Family foundations, Detroit
Two foundations that put on the same event every year. The tobacco laid out with the logo cut into it.

1 of ~28rollers cleared for the Opus XCigar Journal, 2016
6 minone cigar, in front of youHis own words
150+events workedFranklin’s own count
The Tom Celani Foundation and Cigar Family Foundation unite every year for this great worthy event The best or nothing.
1 of ~28 Opus X rollers—Arturo Fuente since 1995—Official roller · F1 Miami—Published in Cigar Journal—A quarter century at the table—Rolled for Hublot—
The man at that table
Franklin Pichardo has been rolling since 1995, the year Arturo Fuente released the first Opus X — and he is one of the few in the world the family cleared to roll it.
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