Brand activation · Saratoga Springs, NY
Eric Church’s band, at Saratoga Performing Arts Center
Hand-rolled cigars for the band and the Live Nation team, with more than twenty thousand people at the show. The poster for the night credits him as the master roller.
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
Another honor for me and my family of James and Sons Tobacconists to be able and roll my Authentic Hand Made Cigars for Eric Church Band and Live Nation Team, tonight at Saratoga Springs Performing Arts Center!! Where more of 20,000 people are enjoying the Live Concert!
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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